If you are searching for fork lift truck hire in and around Northamptonshire bear in mind that if you mention that you have a trade-in at the beginning of negotiations, you run the risk of being quoted an inflated price to compensate for the trade-in.

When you are looking for fork lift truck hire in and around Northamptonshire then be aware that the lift truck you buy needs to fit the application you require it for. A standard mast will generally only lift to about 10ft, which is fine for offloading goods and moving them around a yard but won’t necessarily be suitable if you have high shelving/racking.

Whilst you are looking for fork lift truck hire in and around Northamptonshire 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.