If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, is not the philosophy you should follow when it comes to your forklift preventive maintenance program. Last week we had a customer call us and I assure you it wasn’t a friendly call. He was ready to cancel his preventive maintenance program with us because all three of [...]
Someone asked me today, “is blogging a form of Customer Support?” My response, you bet it is! Forklifts and material handling equipment are complex pieces of machinery. They are dangerous to use if not handled correctly and unproductive if not applied in the manner for which they were designed. It is not enough that we sell [...]
Most people know little about forklift battery chargers and even less have an idea how to choose or take care of one. There are many features and specifications your need to know to make sure it matches the battery and forklift you are purcahsing it for. Once you own one, the process does not stop there, you need to maintain it and [...]
Pallet racking is a material handling storage system designed to store palletized materials in horizontal rows with multiple levels. There are a variety of different pallet rack options available. Here is a brief overview of some that you will encounter: Single deep selective pallet racks are the most traditional type of pallet racks. [...]
Loading dock equipment is critical to the safe operation of you forklifts in and around your loading dock. Dock plates and dock boards are a couple very important tools you can use to bridge the gap between your dock and the trailer you want to unload. Dock plates and dock boards are simply metal ramps, [...]
Buying a pallet racking system can massively expand the storage capacity of any warehouse. Before buying a pallet rack, though,it’s important to understand what types of systems are out there and how to evaluate your own storage needs. What’s your materials flow like? A pallet rack that’s right for one company may not work for [...]
Hyundai Motor Co., the maker of the Elantra and Sonata sedans and the Tucson SUV, is South Korea’s largest automaker and a major force in the global auto industry. It has expanded aggressively overseas in recent years with factories in China, India, the Czech Republic, the United States and Russia. The company’s 2011 earnings reached [...]
There is a new forklift product on the market to improve forklift safety. OSHA requires all operators of forklift equipment to be trained and tested in the protocols of forklift safety . But does that make you warehouse safe? One hazard that training cannot eliminate is blind spots, particularly when pedestrians and forklifts are required to [...]
The use of electric forklifts in industry today has grown dramatically in recent years. Operators are finding more and more applications for which the use of an electric forklift is ideal. They are also finding that there are fewer applications for which an electric forklift does not fit. This is a good thing for our environment, [...]
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Looking for a forklift service or forklift maintenance in Orange County California? There are many options to choose from and many factors that people should consider in making this choice. If you go on the internet and do a search, you will find a long list of companies to choose from. Some are large companies and [...]
There are a lot of parts on a forklift. Take a look at the picture to the right. There are also a lot of forklifts that need parts. There have been at least a hundred forklift manufacturers over time and together they have produced several hundred different forklift models. Do you need a tire, a hydraulic pump, an [...]
