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Lower Operating Costs by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the forklift is preventable, therefore Hyster lift trucks has a complete solution to help eliminate this type of abuse. The dealers have a variety of cost efficient alternatives and simple solutions to consider in an effort to prevent forklift abuse from happening.

Product or Service Solutions, Worn Tires, Abuse Items
Unlike your personal vehicle, forklifts are not equipped with suspension springs that give extra cushioning. Thus, it is very important to replace worn tires or chunked tires which cause jarring impacts to the operator, the axle components, and load and to the wheel.

To ensure maximum forklift performance, there are actually lots of applications which rely on utilizing right tires. You could simply request an application survey from your local Cat lift truck dealer, in order to ensure that your material handling machine has the proper tires. It is very vital to remember that operating with worn forklift tires may lead to premature wear to the bottom of the forks. Forks which are worn can really jeopardize the lift truck's ability to lift. This situation creates a dangerous and extremely unsafe work surrounding.

It is time to change the tines, when the fork's heel is worn over 10 percent. Routine fork inspections are required in order to make certain that your machine is safely functioning and that your equipment is working with safe forks. These inspections are very vital to the safety of your operators along with anybody else working in close proximity to the equipment.

Riding the inching pedal is a bad habit which is unfortunately taken up by lots of forklift drivers. This inching pedal riding can lead to costly damage to the vehicle's transmission. To be able to avoid major component failure from happening, only utilize the inching pedal when you wish to apply the brakes while the engine is revving and are approaching a rack. This allows the hydraulics to function at full speed. The brake pedal is utilized to frequently stop the lift truck when the hydraulics is not being used and is located in the middle.

Impact Damage
There are major components including tires, wheels, body panels, forks, attachments and brackets that suffer greatly anytime a lift truck encounters impact to its product or to its surrounding while traveling at high speeds.

There are certain products available to help decrease product damage as well as assigning machinery to an operator. These products include impact monitor, keyless access systems and vehicle speed limiter.

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