Whilst you are looking for new lift trucks in and around scotland you might like to be aware that a DIY store was fined over £500,000 and ordered to pay costs of £250,000 following an incident in which a female customer was killed as a result of a lift truck reversing into her. It was found that the lift truck driver had been working without a look-out and as a result had failed to see her.

If you are searching for new lift trucks in and around scotland bear in mind that if you mention that you have a trade-in at the beginning of negotiations, you run the risk of being quoted an inflated price to compensate for the trade-in.

If you are trying to find new lift trucks in and around scotland it might be worth considering that if you are operating your lift truck in an area with doorways 6ft or 8ft high then you obviously wont be able to use a lift truck that has a mast which is over 10ft tall when fully collapsed in its normal ground travel position and expect it to pass through the doorway. Before choosing your lift truck, measure all the doorways and openings that it will need to fit through.