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Abuse of the lift truck is preventable, hence Hyster lift trucks has a complete solution to help eliminate this type of abuse. The dealers have a variety of easy solutions and cost effective alternatives to take into consideration in an effort to avoid forklift abuse from happening.

Abuse Items, Service or Product Solutions, Worn Tires
Forklifts, unlike your personal vehicle, are not outfitted with suspension springs that provide extra cushioning. Thus, it is really important to replace chunked tires or worn tires which cause jarring impacts to the axle parts, the operator, and to the wheel and load.

There are a lot of demanding applications which rely upon using the proper tires to ensure maximum lift truck performance. In order to ensure that your material handling equipment has the right tires, simply request an application survey from your local Cat lift truck dealer. It is very essential not to forget that operating with worn forklift tires may cause premature wear to the bottom of the tines. Forks which are worn can really jeopardize the ability of the forklift to lift. This situation creates a dangerous and awfully unsafe work environment.

When the heel on the forks is worn more than 10 percent, it is time to change the forks. In order to make sure that your machine is safely operating, routine fork inspections are needed to make sure that your machinery is working with safe forks. These inspections are very vital to the safety of your operators in addition to anybody else working near the machinery.

Riding the inching pedal is a bad habit which is sadly taken up by numerous forklift drivers. This inching pedal riding could cause costly damage to the vehicle's transmission. In order to avoid major component failure from occurring, only utilize the inching pedal when you wish to apply the brakes while the engine is revving and are approaching a rack. This enables the hydraulics to function at full speed. The brake pedal is situated in the middle and is utilized to regularly stop the lift truck when the hydraulics is not being used.

Impact Damage
There are major parts like wheels, tires, body panels, forks, backrests and attachments which suffer a lot anytime a lift truck encounters impact to its surroundings or to product while traveling at high speeds.

In addition to assigning machine to an operator, there are particular products available to help reduce product damage including keyless access systems, vehicle speed limiter and impact monitor.

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