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Lift truck abuse is completely preventable. This is why your Hyster lift truck dealer has a complete solution for getting rid of this type of abuse. The dealers have a range of simple solutions and cost effective options to take into consideration with a purpose to avoid lift truck abuse from happening.

Abuse Items, Product or Service Solutions, Worn Tires
Lift trucks, unlike your personal vehicle, are not outfitted with suspension springs which provide added cushioning. Therefore, it is very important to replace chunked tires or worn tires which cause jarring impacts to the axle components, the operator, and load and to the wheel.

To guarantee maximum forklift performance, there are a lot of applications which depend on using correct tires. You can simply request an application survey from your local Cat forklift dealer, in order to ensure that your material handling machinery has the correct tires. It is important to remember that operating with worn lift truck tires can cause premature wear to the bottom of the forks. Forks that are worn can greatly jeopardize the ability of the forklift to lift. This situation creates a dangerous and awfully unsafe work surrounding.

When the heel on the forks is worn more than 10 percent, it is time to change the forks. In order to ensure that your equipment is safely functioning, routine fork inspections are needed to make sure that your equipment is functioning with safe forks. These inspections are important to the safety of your operators as well as anyone else working in close proximity to the equipment.

Riding the inching pedal is a bad habit that is sadly taken up by lots of lift truck drivers. This inching pedal riding could lead to expensive damage to the vehicle's transmission. In order to avoid major part failure from occurring, only use the inching pedal when you wish to apply the brakes while the engine is revving and are approaching a rack. This allows the hydraulics to function at full speed. The brake pedal is located in the middle and is used to frequently stop the forklift when the hydraulics is not being used.

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

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

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