While investigating new counterbalanced forklifts in and around Wantage OX12 take into account the physical restrictions of the areas in which a machine will have to operate. In particular consider any doorways through which your forklift will have to move. If your doorways are standard 1.8m (6ft) or 2.4m (8ft) high then you obviously wont be able to use a machine with a collapsed mast height of over 3m (10ft). Before making your selection make sure that all the doorways and openings that it will need to fit through have been measured.

If you are investigating new counterbalanced forklifts in and around Wantage OX12 it may be important to know that a company was fined £20,000 plus over £11,000 in costs after one of its workers was killed in a forklift truck incident. The company was prosecuted under the Health & Safety at Work Act for failing to use trained staff to drive its forklift trucks and which put the safety of all its work force at risk.

If you are trying to find new counterbalanced forklifts in and around Wantage OX12 you might like to know that electric forklifts will generally short out if used in the rain. This can often result in the forklift needing a couple of days to dry out before it can be used again.