While searching for hire forklifts in and around Yorkshire 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.

If you are trying to find hire forklifts in and around Yorkshire bear in mind that satellite storage and retrieval systems can often be used in conjunction with an existing lift truck fleet in order to reduce handling time.

While you are trying to find hire forklifts in and around Yorkshire you might like to note that that electric lift trucks require a battery charger and that most of the charges require a 3 phase supply, which is not necessarily always available. Single phase chargers are available but they generally only work on low-amp batteries.