If you are searching for Toyota Forklifts in and around Orkney 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.

Whilst you are looking for Toyota Forklifts in and around Orkney you might like to be aware that a forklift driver working at a sawmill was fined £1,750 after an incident in which he was driving a forklift truck with a stack of 12 modular sheds. The sheds obscured the drivers vision and as a result he hit a fellow employee with the load causing a fractured pelvis, cuts and bruises. It is important that individuals are aware that they, as well as their employer, have duties under the law to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work. In this case the employer had employed an in-house forklift truck trainer and the driver had received regular refresher training and re-testing and as a result it was the employee not the employer that was fined for this incident.

While you are looking for Toyota Forklifts in and around Orkney it is important for you to know that Toyota’s SAS active mast function controller improves stability by controlling the mast’s front tilt angle and limiting its rear tilt speed. Six sensors are in place to monitor the mast height and load weight and activate the regulators to reduce the risk of falling loads and front tip-overs.