If you are trying to find forklift trucks in and around Merseyside bear in mind that while some older lift trucks have a strong resale value, there are newer machines that were not designed as well and as a result have a lower resale value.

While you are looking for forklift trucks in and around Merseyside bear in mind that whilst it is very expensive to buy a replacement battery for an electric lift truck, you are in effect purchasing fuel for the next 5 years. Overall it is generally considered about 25% cheaper to operate and maintain an electric lift truck than an internal combustion gas or diesel lift truck.

While searching for forklift trucks in and around Merseyside you might like to be aware that a farming company was fined £35,000 and ordered to pay costs of over £17,000 after an incident where an employee died when he was crushed against a mobile cleaning machine by a lift truck. He had finished processing wheat seeds when his colleague got onto the lift truck to move the last bag. When the driver started the vehicle it suddenly moved forward, trapping him against the machine.