Whilst you are looking for a fork lift truck in and around Gtr Manchester you might like to be aware that a lift truck driver working at a sawmill was fined £1,750 after an incident in which he was driving a lift truck with a stack of 12 modular sheds. The sheds obscured the drivers vision and as a result he hit a fellow employee with the load causing a fractured pelvis, cuts and bruises. It is important that individuals are aware that they, as well as their employer, have duties under the law to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work. In this case the employer had employed an in-house lift truck trainer and the driver had received regular refresher training and re-testing and as a result it was the employee not the employer that was fined for this incident.

While you are searching for a fork lift truck in and around Gtr Manchester 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.

While you are trying to find a fork lift truck in and around Gtr Manchester you might like to note that some businesses have managed to create 50% more storage space in their existing warehouses by replacing standard counterbalance lift trucks with articulated counterbalance lift trucks. Articulated lift trucks are capable of operating in much narrower aisles than standard counterbalance and reach trucks.