While you are searching for forklift leasing in and around Nottingham NG8 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.

If you are trying to find forklift leasing in and around Nottingham NG8 it might be worth considering that if you are operating your lift truck in an area with doorways 6ft or 8ft high then you obviously wont be able to use a lift truck that has a mast which is over 10ft tall when fully collapsed in its normal ground travel position and expect it to pass through the doorway. Before choosing your lift truck, measure all the doorways and openings that it will need to fit through.

Whilst you are looking for forklift leasing in and around Nottingham NG8 you might like to be aware that a manufacturing company was fined £30,000 after a young worker was pinned by a lift truck against a wall and killed instantly. A lift truck was unloading a lorry in a narrow street when an oncoming vehicle forced it to reverse rapidly to get out of its way. The lift truck driver did not see the young worker leaving from the rear exit and hit him with the rear of his vehicle.