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Abuse of the lift truck is preventable, therefore Hyster lift trucks has a total solution to help eliminate this type of abuse. The dealers have a range of cost effective options and simple solutions to consider in an effort to avoid forklift abuse from happening.

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

There are lots of demanding applications that depend on utilizing the proper tires to ensure maximum lift truck performance. In order to ensure that your material handling machinery has the proper tires, just request an application survey from your local Cat lift truck dealer. It is really important to remember that operating with worn forklift tires could result in premature wear to the bottom of the tines. Worn forks can really jeopardize the lift truck's ability to lift. This situation creates an extremely unsafe and dangerous work environment.

It is time to change the forks, when the fork's heel is worn over 10 percent. Routine fork inspections are required in order to ensure that your machinery is safely operating and that your equipment is operating with safe forks. These inspections are important to the safety of your operators as well as anybody else working near the machinery.

Unfortunately, many forklift operators have taken up the bad habit of riding the inching pedal. This could lead to expensive damage to the transmission of the vehicle. To be able to prevent major component failure from happening, just use the inching pedal when you wish to apply the brakes while the engine is revving and are approaching a rack. This enables the hydraulics to work at full speed. The brake pedal is located in the middle and is utilized to regularly stop the truck when the hydraulics is not being utilized.

Impact Damage
Anytime a forklift encounters impact to its goods and products or to its surrounding which are traveling at high speeds, you will find major parts like tires, wheels, forks, body panels, attachments and brackets that may suffer greatly.

There are actually specific products available to help decrease product damage as well as assigning equipment to a driver. These products consist of vehicle speed limiter, impact monitor, and keyless access systems.

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