Whilst you are looking for forklift leasing in and around Oxfordshire you might like to be aware that a bakery was fined £25,000 and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 following an incident in which one employee was killed and another severely injured whilst using a lift truck to raise a 2 tonne dough mixing machine in order to gain access to the drive belt underneath, which had failed.

When you are trying to find forklift leasing in and around Oxfordshire 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.

When you are trying to find forklift leasing in and around Oxfordshire it might be worth considering that with a used / secondhand lift truck the hydraulic pumps should be tested before purchase as repairs can be quite costly. Many lift trucks have an internal chain-driven hydraulic pump that will make a loud clacking sound of metal on metal if there are serious problems with it.