While you are looking for hire forklift in and around Inverkeithing KY11 bear in mind that a worn steer axle on a secondhand lift truck can make it hard to manoeuvre and be quite costly to repair. Look at the wheels and if they are not perpendicular to the ground then this might be the problem.

Whilst you are looking for hire forklift in and around Inverkeithing KY11 you might like to be aware that a business was fined over £50,000 when a 60 year old employee was crushed and later died as a result of his injuries. It was found that the lift truck had been going round a corner when its driver performed an emergency stop in order to avoid hitting a member of staff. However the sudden breaking cause a steel coil situated on the forks to fall off pinning the man to the ground. The court found that no risk assessments had been carried out and that there was no safe system to safely separate pedestrians from vehicles on the site.

If you are searching for hire forklift in and around Inverkeithing KY11 it might be worth considering that if you already own a lift truck and are purchasing another one because you need to upgrade for any number of reasons, then it will usually pay you not to mention that you have a lift truck to trade in until you have negotiated the best price on the new lift truck.