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Abuse of the lift truck is preventable, therefore Hyster lift trucks has a complete solution to help eliminate this type of abuse. The dealers have a range of simple solutions and cost effective alternatives to take into consideration in order to prevent forklift abuse from occurring.

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

To ensure maximum lift truck performance, there are actually lots of applications which depend on utilizing correct tires. You could just request an application survey from your local Cat lift truck dealer, in order to ensure that your material handling machine has the right tires. It is really vital to remember that operating with worn lift truck tires may cause premature wear to the bottom of the forks. Worn forks could really jeopardize the lift truck's ability 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 ensure that your machine is safely functioning, routine fork inspections are required to make sure that your equipment is operating with safe forks. These inspections are very essential to the safety of your drivers as well as anybody else working near the machinery.

Unfortunately, many forklift drivers have taken up the bad habit of riding the inching pedal. This could result in expensive damage to the vehicle's transmission. To be able to avoid major component failure from occurring, 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 used to frequently stop the forklift when the hydraulics is not being used and is located in the middle.

Impact Damage
Anytime a forklift encounters impact to its goods and products or to its surrounding that are traveling at high speeds, you will find major components including tires, wheels, body panels, forks, backrests and attachments which could suffer a lot.

You will find specific products available to help lessen product damage along with assigning machine to an operator. These products consist of keyless access systems, vehicle speed limiter and impact monitor.

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