While you are searching for second hand forklift trucks in and around Fife bear in mind that electric lift trucks run on batteries that require regular charging. On a new battery you can typically expect to get around 6 hours of running time from a standard 4 wheel lift truck. The batteries also need regular maintenance and are expensive to replace once their useful life has been exceeded.

When you are trying to find second hand forklift trucks in and around Fife you might like to note that if your business only needs to offload goods once a week, transport them into the warehouse; set them on the ground; break down the pallets and place the shipment where it is needed then you are likely to get away with a relatively inexpensive used/secondhand lift truck.

Whilst you are looking for second hand forklift trucks in and around Fife 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.