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Lower Operating Expenses by Protecting Your Investment
Abuse of the forklift is preventable, thus Hyster lift trucks has a total solution to help eliminate this type of abuse. The dealers have a range of simple solutions and cost effective alternatives to take into account in an effort to avoid lift truck abuse from happening.

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

To ensure maximum forklift performance, you will find many applications that depend upon utilizing proper tires. You can just request an application survey from your local Cat lift truck dealer, in order to guarantee that your material handling machinery has the right tires. It is vital not to forget that operating with worn lift truck tires could cause premature wear to the bottom of the blades. Worn forks can really jeopardize the ability of the forklift to lift. This situation creates a dangerous and extremely unsafe work environment.

When the heel on the forks is worn more than 10 percent, it is time to change the forks. In order to make certain that your equipment is safely working, routine fork inspections are needed to make certain that your machine is working with safe forks. These inspections are really essential to the safety of your operators as well as anybody else working near the equipment.

Unfortunately, a lot of lift truck drivers have taken up the bad habit of riding the inching pedal. This could cause expensive damage to the vehicle's transmission. In order to prevent major component failure from occurring, just utilize 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 used to frequently stop the lift truck when the hydraulics is not being used.

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

In addition to assigning machine to an operator, you will find specific products available to help decrease product damage including impact monitor, keyless access systems and vehicle speed limiter.

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