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Lower Operating Expenses by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the forklift is preventable, therefore Hyster forklifts has a total solution to help eliminate this kind of abuse. The dealers have a variety of simple solutions and cost effective options to consider with a purpose to avoid lift truck abuse from happening.

Worn Tires, Abuse Items, Service or Product Solutions
Forklifts, unlike your personal vehicle, are not equipped with suspension springs that give additional cushioning. Therefore, it is extremely important to replace worn tires or chunked tires which cause jarring impacts to the axle parts, the operator, and to the wheel and load.

There are many demanding applications which rely on using the right tires to guarantee maximum forklift performance. In order to guarantee that your material handling machinery has the right tires, just request an application survey from your local Cat forklift dealer. It is very vital not to forget that operating with worn lift truck tires may result in premature wear to the bottom of the blades. Worn forks can greatly jeopardize the forklift's ability to lift. This type of situation creates a dangerous and awfully unsafe work surrounding.

When the heel on the forks is worn more than 10 percent, it is time to change the forks. In order to make sure that your machinery is safely working, routine fork inspections are required to make sure that your machinery is working with safe forks. These inspections are vital to the safety of your operators as well as anybody else working near the machinery.

Riding the inching pedal is a bad habit that is unfortunately taken up by a lot of lift truck drivers. This inching pedal riding can result in expensive damage to the transmission of the vehicle. In order to avoid major component failure from happening, only use the inching pedal when you are approaching a rack and wish to apply the brakes while the engine is revving. This enables the hydraulics to function at full speed. The brake pedal is located in the middle and is used to frequently stop the lift truck when the hydraulics is not being utilized.

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

You will find particular products available to help reduce product damage along with assigning machinery to an operator. These products comprise impact monitor, keyless access systems and vehicle speed limiter.

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