When the time comes to pick the right warehouse truck, it is a good idea to figure out how high you plan to lift your loads, how much you have to raise, how much space you have to work in and how far you would like to travel. These factors will truly affect your purchasing decision and help decipher what type of forklift truck is the best one out there to suit all your requirements and meet your whole expectations.
Normal Aisles
The most cost-effective trucks are pedestrian stackers. These equipment are great for working in normal width aisles and finishing ordinary stacking jobs inside a warehouse. They can easily raise loads of less than 750kg and can stack them to heights of roughly 4.5 metres. Another type called rider stackers can successfully raise loads to about 6 metres.
Reach trucks are yet another choice to consider. They give you much greater load and lift capacities and some models come complete with telescopic forks. This characteristic enables you the ability to stack pallets two deep. For extra flexibility in handling goods, there is a multi-way and a 4-way reach truck that as the name implies, could be driven in four directions. These models are specifically great for handling long and bulky things like piping, planks and boards.
The counterbalance line of trucks is suitable for traveling longer distances. They are a great alternative for stacking jobs, particularly block stacking. They are also an ideal choice for free stacking and stacking loads which weigh more than 2 tonnes.
A Tight Squeeze
If you are working in a high-density storage operation, the aisle space would typically be a lot narrower and the heights you would want to reach to will potentially be much higher. Man-up telescopic lift trucks function well in narrow aisle, high-bay stores. They offer the driver or operator a good view of the stacking process. There are also types called man-up combi trucks. These are quite versatile in that they can be used for both order- picking and stacking jobs. They can be driven all around the warehouse or utilized in narrow aisles.