Topic: Lift Trucks

According to our readers, there’s some strong buying expected in lift trucks this year. In fact, 42% of the lift trucks being purchased are for expanding fleets while 58% are replacement trucks.

Modern Materials Handling's staff sat down with Brett Wood to discuss the Lift Truck industry.

If there’s one piece of equipment that deserves the majority of our attention for a given month it would have to be the lift truck—what we traditionally call the backbone, the workhorse, the most fundamental piece of equipment to be found in any materials handling operation.

Time, money and an ongoing commitment ensure an effective training program, and anything less can jeopardize productivity, profits and safety.

A new single-supplier fleet has helped optimize operating costs, productivity, storage and safety.

Walmart to expand use of hydrogen fuel cells in its distribution center material handling fleet by $80 million.

Since 1992, MCFA has more than quadrupled its employee base, and facility size has expanded from 172,000 square feet to 866,512 square feet.

Industry activity supports 209,000 jobs, in addition to more than half a million forklift operators in the U.S.

Narrow and very narrow aisles offer many of the benefits of automation at a lower cost and complexity, but they also present users with a set of potential pitfalls.

Download this new "Making the Case" e-book for an in-depth look at how Toyota's line of material handling equipment has been designed and manufactured from the ground up with operator safety, comfort, productivity and efficiency in mind.

Download this new "Making the Case" e-book for an in-depth look at how Toyota's line of material handling equipment has been designed and manufactured from the ground up with operator safety, comfort, productivity and efficiency in mind.

Leading provider of mobile asset management technology acquires maker of electronic products for managing forklifts, construction vehicles, and other industrial equipment.

From 335 employees to nearly 1,200, MCFA will produce its 450,000th forklift this month.

New products are part of goal to increase South Carolina facility capacity to 12,000 lift trucks a year by 2020, up from 3,000 in 2015.

Industrial Truck Association raises awareness for forklift safety, engages stakeholders to help spread the message.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America employees to observe the occasion at a company-wide NFSD event on MCFA’s Houston, Texas campus.

Improve safety with proper equipment and accessories for the application, along with identification of training requirements.

KION says safety award would not be possible without contribution from individual employees from the administration to the operating floors.

UniCarriers reaffirms commitment to the safety and well-being of everyone who produces, operates, works on or around forklifts.

The first 100 operators who register will get free e-learning versions of Safety on the Move.