When you are searching for fork trucks in and around Devon you might like to note that with electric lift trucks, when a breakdown occurs then a specially trained technician is usually required to make the repair; they don’t climb ramps very easily and they don’t generally respond well to heavy pushing or pulling.

Whilst you are looking for fork trucks in and around Devon you might like to be aware that a DIY store was fined over £500,000 and ordered to pay costs of £250,000 following an incident in which a female customer was killed as a result of a lift truck reversing into her. It was found that the lift truck driver had been working without a look-out and as a result had failed to see her.

While you are searching for fork trucks in and around Devon you might like to note that that on average you can expect to get around 12 hours running time from a standard gas truck with a four cylinder engine. It will usually take 3 or 4 days to use up a full tank of gas even with the lift truck being used eight hours a day, as time is spent getting on and off the lift truck, so the lift truck is not usually running all the time.