Whilst you are looking for Forklifts in and around Cambridgeshire you might like to be aware that a bakery was fined £25,000 and ordered to pay costs of £30,000 following an incident in which one employee was killed and another severely injured whilst using a lift truck to raise a 2 tonne dough mixing machine in order to gain access to the drive belt underneath, which had failed.

While you are looking for Forklifts in and around Cambridgeshire you might like to note that electric lift trucks do not like getting rained on as the rain usually causes problems with the electric systems causing them to short out. This can often result in the lift truck needing a day or two to dry out before it will start again.

While you are searching for Forklifts in and around Cambridgeshire bear in mind that in the lift truck trade, as in the auto industry, there is a “grey market”. This is the sale of units that were shipped into the country from foreign markets. The problem with these lift trucks is that although they look identical most dealers usually won’t support them because parts can often be more difficult to source.