While you are searching for used fork lift trucks in and around Somerset 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 used fork lift trucks in and around Somerset 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.

When you are looking into used fork lift trucks in and around Somerset you might like to be aware that the proprietor of a waste firm was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of over £6,000 following an incident when one of his employees died after the lift truck he was driving fell from a weighbridge and toppled on top of him causing fatal head injuries. It was found that the lift truck had no seatbelt and no railings had been provided.