Racking Your Warehouse
Choosing the right forklift for your facility is only half the equation. Your racking system needs to work together with your forklifts to provide the most efficient, safe storage possible. Let’s start with capacity. Your rack system must be constructed so each shelf can hold what it will be asked to hold. Placement and number of beams...
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Why Choose Doosan Material Handling Equipment?
We get asked every now and again “Why Doosan?” For this list, let’s focus on the Doosan electric series of lifts, and the Top Ten reasons you should consider one. The new Doosan 7 series. It’s impressive, and the fingertip controls offer fast, instinctive control of the truck. The Guardian Safety System monitors truck functions...
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Just the Forklift FAQS
  You have lots of questions about forklifts! Let’s try to answer some of them: Q: Atlantic Forklift Services sells used lifts.  Are they inspected before you put them back on the market? A: Absolutely. Our technicians and mechanics give all the used forklifts that find their way to us a thorough inspection and we repair and...
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End of Summer Basic Forklift Maintenance
  Now that the days are getting a little shorter and the temperatures will soon be dropping along with the leaves, it’s time to prepare for the end of the Summer and your seasonal forklift maintenance. As always, every shift should begin and end with the routine internal and external maintenance inspection as required by OSHA. In...
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Forklift Attachments and OSHA
Your forklift operators have been trained on the appropriate trucks and know those units back to front, but did you know that if you add any attachments or alter the forklift in any way operators must be trained again? OSHA has a list of requirements for attachments and any item that alters the truck’s center of gravity, visibility or...
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Solid Forklift Tires

Forklift Tires
We got Don Haas to explain forklift tires. Why are there different options? Well think about all the different applications one could use a forklift and imagine each application having special tire...
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Preventative and Routine Forklift Maintenance
  Maintenance is maintenance, right? Not so fast. There are two disciplines of maintenance- “preventative” and “routine.” Think of brushing your teeth vs. going to the dentist. Brushing (routine) takes place (ideally) every day and keeps your pearly whites happy and healthy.  The dentist (preventative) takes place...
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Pallet Rack Safety
  Safety, as we discuss often in these entries, is a two-way street.  We’re about to add a third. Your pallet racks are another variable in the safety equation. Pallet rack accidents can happen quickly, and they can be deadly. When you’re setting up your racks, have a complete understanding of what will be expected of...
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Aerial Equipment – Scissor Lifts
We’ve added a potentially critical element of your operation to our catalog of warehouse equipment- Skyjack Aerial Equipment.  Scissor lifts, boom lifts and man lifts are now available through us for purchase or rental. Colloquially known as “cherry-pickers” these versatile lifts can be the addition to your facility you’ve been...
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Mid-Summer Forklift Check-Up
We’re elbows deep in Summer weather and even if you did everything we suggested in the Spring to prep for Summer, you still need to follow up because hot weather is very, very tough on mechanical engines and forklifts are no different. Start with the battery.  Sure, you check it at the start of every shift but take a minute or two and...
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