While searching for electric counterbalanced forklifts in and around wales you may like to know that a timber merchant was fined over £100,000 after an incident in which a forklift truck drove onto a public road and into a car. The raised forks of the truck broke the windscreen of the car and stabbed the driver in the neck, causing his death.

While investigating electric counterbalanced forklifts in and around wales 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.

Whilst researching electric counterbalanced forklifts in and around wales you may like to know that some businesses have created up to 50% more storage space in their existing warehouses by replacing their fleet of standard counterbalance forklift trucks with articulated counterbalance forklifts. Articulated forklift trucks are able to operate in much narrower aisles than standard counterbalance and reach trucks.