Whilst you are looking for Lift Trucks in and around Dorset you might like to be aware that a business was fined over £50,000 when a 60 year old employee was crushed and later died as a result of his injuries. It was found that the lift truck had been going round a corner when its driver performed an emergency stop in order to avoid hitting a member of staff. However the sudden breaking cause a steel coil situated on the forks to fall off pinning the man to the ground. The court found that no risk assessments had been carried out and that there was no safe system to safely separate pedestrians from vehicles on the site.

While you are looking for Lift Trucks in and around Dorset it might be worth considering that electric lift trucks are a necessity in certain environments such as food applications that require going in and out of refrigerators and freezers because both gas and diesel lift trucks give off emissions that can contaminate the food.

While you are searching for Lift Trucks in and around Dorset bear in mind that in the lift truck trade, as in the auto industry, there is a “grey market”. This is the sale of units that were shipped into the country from foreign markets. The problem with these lift trucks is that although they look identical most dealers usually won’t support them because parts can often be more difficult to source.