Is Your Forklift Purpose-Built for Your Application?

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As our readers will notice, we got a brand new website this year! We’re grateful for our revamped online presence and the opportunity it gives us to provide better services to our clients. We hope you love the new website as much as we do!

HTX Material Handling wouldn’t exist without a loyal client base. From all of us, thank you for trusting us to provide the best forklifts and service in the business! We plan to continue bringing you the latest and best in the future and we’re committed as an organization to continuous improvement.

Every company should be proud to stand behind their products and services. We certainly are! We’re grateful that we can confidently say our machinery is both dependable and perfectly suited to a variety of work environments. We fully stand behind every forklift.

As the holiday season begins, we hope you can take the time to be with your loved ones and enjoy Thanksgiving. Those of us at HTX Material Handling look forward to helping you make this busy season an enjoyable one!

Linde Financial Services has launched an unprecedented leasing program, providing acquisition options for the Linde Series 1202 which have never been offered on Linde’s flagship hydrostatic drive lift trucks.  For organizations utilizing forklift trucks, previously out-of-reach quality is now highly accessible.  The opportunity is now available to add premium quality lift trucks to your fleet for the price of a lesser competitor.

Linde’s new 1202 Series represents the latest generation of their 100% hydrostatic drive system utilizing hydraulic fluid for truck propulsion in lieu of a mechanical powertrain.  This technology provides the most efficient truck, including automatic acceleration and deceleration, with NO brake wear and enhanced tire longevity. Directional changes can be made at ANY speed with no damage to the drive system. These advancements, along with optimized energy consumption, increased handling capacity, and a virtually maintenance-free engine, create the most cost- efficient and productive truck in the industry worldwide.

For many organizations, justifying the acquisition of a truck with such advanced features would have not made economic sense in the recent past. However, the future has now arrived with affordability never before seen from the world’s premier lift truck manufacturer.

The Linde Series 1202 is now an affordable alternative in your supply chain calculations. 

It provides extreme versatility and superior functionality in the following applications:

You now have the ability to be in the driver’s seat with affordable options for your operation.

With the new 1202 Series Leasing Program, there are little to no upfront costs, with the lowest monthly rates available, allowing your increase in productivity to positively flow directly to EBIT.  Additionally, adding significantly reduced fuel spend to the equation, the economics of the Linde 1202 Series are unmatched by any traditional tier one lift truck supplier.

Let’s take a look at how leasing vs. owning offers the better solution to get the trucks you want at the price you need.

Any business regularly engaging palletized material needs a reliable forklift to keep things moving. But as anyone familiar with mechanical technology will admit, not every forklift is capable of the work your operation may require. Certain models are better suited to different environments or jobs than others. Is your current forklift model the right one for the job?

Finding the best forklift for any given job requires taking several factors into account: 1) what powers the machine, 2) how much weight it can lift, 3) what amount of space does it require to safely operate, and the list goes on. Every make and model touts features & benefits to a degree, but before you settle on any one in particular, make sure you understand the best way to meet the unique requirements of your application.

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How can you best determine the right forklift model for your application? For starters, consider the environment in which you work. A recycling center may want to promote an environmentally friendly focus and consider opting for an electric forklift as opposed to an internal combustion chassis. Alternatively, a warehouse that regularly hauls in freight from outdoors may choose a forklift better suited to outdoor environments and potentially inclement weather. What conditions will your forklift be exposed to?

Second, take a look around your yard or warehouse space. How high are the beam levels in your storage racking? How wide are the aisles? How heavy is the average load, and how far will drivers have to move it? Certain forklift models are designed to reach impressive heights or handle bulkier loads than others. Other models are better suited to outdoor applications with lots of room to maneuver, as opposed to lower capacity forklifts specifically designed to fit down narrow aisles.

Third, consider what type of fuel you can provide. Electric forklifts offer comparable capacities, speeds, and gradeabilities to their LPG & Diesel counterparts. The biggest factor is convenience. Do you have the necessary electrical supply that can support an appropriate charging station? If not, are you able to bring it in or would the infrastructure upgrades be too costly? We can model different scenarios for you and help you arrive at the most intelligent decision.

Forklifts are generally designed with specific work conditions and capacities in mind, and altering the machines is not recommended or, in some cases, not allowed. However, an excellent way to maximize the utility of your forklift is through the use of attachments. These specialized components can extend a machine’s reach, shift a load from side to side, rotate it, dump it, squeeze it, pull it or push it. One potential drawback is the added weight these attachments remove from the overall capacity of your lift.

Be sure you have an engineer accurately calculate the appropriate net capacity with the chosen attachment installed and adhere to all OSHA requirements for the notification of net capacities visible to the operator.