While you are looking for forklift truck hire in and around Cumbria you might like to note that electric lift trucks do not like getting rained on as the rain usually causes problems with the electric systems causing them to short out. This can often result in the lift truck needing a day or two to dry out before it will start again.

While you are looking for forklift truck hire in and around Cumbria then be aware that Hydrostatic IC engine powered lift trucks are particularly suited to highly intensive materials handling operations involving a lot of shuttling type operations.

Whilst you are looking for forklift truck hire in and around Cumbria you might like to be aware that a manufacturing company was fined £30,000 after a young worker was pinned by a lift truck against a wall and killed instantly. A lift truck was unloading a lorry in a narrow street when an oncoming vehicle forced it to reverse rapidly to get out of its way. The lift truck driver did not see the young worker leaving from the rear exit and hit him with the rear of his vehicle.