When the time comes to pick the appropriate warehouse truck, it is a great idea to figure out how high you plan to raise your loads, how much you have to lift, how much space you need to work in and how far you would like to travel. These considerations will influence your purchasing decision and help decipher what kind of forklift truck is the best one out there to meet your requirements and meet your overall expectations.
Normal Aisles
The most inexpensive trucks are pedestrian stackers. These equipment are great for working in standard width aisles and completing ordinary stacking tasks in a warehouse. They could easily lift loads of less than 750kg and could stack them to heights of around 4.5 metres. A different model known as rider stackers can successfully lift loads to approximately 6 metres.
Yet a different choice to consider are reach trucks since they provide much greater load and lift capacities, while some models complete with telescopic forks. This feature enables you the ability of stacking pallets two deep. For added 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 large and long objects like for instance boards, piping and planks.
Counterbalance trucks are best suitable for traveling longer distance and are a great choice for stacking jobs, particularly block stacking. They are also an ideal alternative for free stacking and stacking cargo which weigh over 2 tonnes.
A Tight Squeeze
If you are working in a high-density storage operation, the aisle space will normally be a lot narrower and the heights you would want to reach to would potentially be much higher. Man-up telescopic lift trucks function great in high-bay, narrow aisle stores. They offer the driver or operator a good view of the stacking process. There are other kinds known as man-up combi trucks. These are fairly versatile in that they could be used for both stacking and order-picking jobs. They can be driven all over the warehouse or utilized in narrow aisles.