Truck handles long loads and steep gradients
January 1st 2008 Independent builders' merchant,
Frank Key (Nottm.) has
welcomed the versatile
capabilities of two Combilift LPG
powered, 4-way forklifts which
have improved handling and
storage procedures at its
Daybrook, Nottingham site.
Materials arrive in all shapes,
sizes and weights and in the yard
there are gradients and tight
confines, all of which posed
problems for the trucks previously
used at the site.
Major difficulties included the
manoeuvring of 4.8m long packs of
timber through narrow doorways,
or hazardous raised travel with
5.4m wooden decking above other
obstacles in the yard.
Chairman Robert Sansom read
about the Combilift range and
realised that the 4-way capabilities
of the trucks could eradicate
potentially dangerous practices
while simplifying the movement of
loads around the site.
The 1-acre undercover storage
with racking was built around the
capabilities of the Combilift. This
was useful for handling the timber
products and any long or bulky
items, such as bundles of 6m
pipes.
Sansom took the first Combilift
on a hire contract but, impressed
by the reliability of the equipment
and by the excellent customer
service he received, purchased the
latest Combilift outright.
Yard Foreman Arthur Ireland is
impressed by the truck's ability to
'turn on a sixpence', as well as its
general manoeuvrability and
flexibility. Both 4t capacity trucks
work inside and out, load and
offload delivery vehicles and cope
effortlessly with the steep gradient
from the warehouse to outside
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