When the time comes to pick the appropriate warehouse truck, it is a good idea to figure out how high you intend to lift your cargo, how much you need to lift, how much space you have to work in and how far you would like to travel. These considerations will influence your buying decision and help decipher what forklift truck is truly the ideal one out there to suit your needs and meet your whole expectations.
Normal Aisles
The most inexpensive trucks are pedestrian stackers. These equipment are great for working in standard width aisles and completing regular stacking tasks in a warehouse. They could easily lift loads of less than 750kg and could stack them to heights of roughly 4.5 metres. Another model called rider stackers can successfully lift cargo to roughly 6 metres.
Reach trucks are yet a different option to think about. They give you much greater load and lift capacities and some models come complete with telescopic forks. This characteristic enables you the ability of stacking pallets two deep. For added flexibility in goods handling, there is a 4-way and a multi-way reach truck that as the name implies, can be driven in four directions. These models are particularly best for handling long and large things like for instance boards, piping and planks.
Counterbalance trucks are best suited for traveling longer distance and are a good alternative for stacking jobs, specially block stacking. They are also a great option for stacking cargo that weigh more than 2 tonnes and free stacking.
A Tight Squeeze
If you are working in a high-density storage operation, the aisle space will usually be much narrower and the heights you would want to reach to would possibly be a lot higher. Man-up telescopic lift trucks function well in narrow aisle, high-bay stores. They provide the operator or driver a good view of the stacking process. There are also models known as man-up combi trucks. These are fairly versatile in that they could be utilized for both stacking and order-picking jobs. They can be utilized in narrow aisles or driven all over the warehouse.