Forklift Types
Three Wheel Sit Down Electric Lift Truck
Cushion tires primarily used on smooth surfaces for loading trailers and general warehouse work. Voltage range; 24v,36v & 48v Industrial battery’s and charge are required.
Capacity: 1,500 to 5,500 lb
Four Wheel Sit Down Electric Lift Truck
Cushion tires primarily used on smooth surfaces for loading trailers and general warehouse work. Voltage range; 36v, 48v & up
Industrial Battery & charger are required
Capacity: 2,000 to 30,000
Center Control Electric Rider Pallet Truck
Warehouse uses loading and unloading 1 to 2 pallets at a time. Operator stands in the center of the pallet jack to deliver the loads.
Industrial battery and charger are required.
Capacity: 2,000 to 8,000
Container Handlers
Primarily diesel engines, air tires, to load and unload empty and loaded shipping container in large shipping yards.
Capacity: 20,000 to 100,000 lbs
Cushion Tire Sit-Down-internal Combustion Engine Lift Truck
The most commonly warehouse forklift. L/P gas, gasoline, diesel fuel or natural gas. Used on smooth surface indoor and out door. Recommended in well ventilated areas.
Capacity: 2,000 to 90,000 lbs
Die Handler
Use in manufacturing facilities to transport dies and other large objects. Primarily used on smooth surfaces and are electrically propelled. Industrial battery and charger are required.
Capacity: 2,000 to 100,00 lbs
Manlifts
Designed to lift workers and light loads up and down. Optional power source and optional tires for indoor and outdoor use.
Order Picker Electric LiftTruck
This is a Man-Up type of equipment allowing the operator to travel up and down to retrieve full pallets, pick parcels to stack on a pallet or in furniture warehouses This is a very narrow aisle vehicle designed to work in aisle 6 ft wide. Industrial battery and chargers required.
Capacity: 1,500 to 3,500 lbs
Pneumatic Tire Sit-Down Internal Combustion Engine Lift Truck
Primarily used outdoors. Maybe referred to as a yard lift. Higher ground clearance than cushion tire forklift. Air tires for better traction and option fuel. L/P gas, gasoline and diesel fuel is the most used
Capacity: 2,000 to 120,000 lbs
Reach Lift Truck
Narrow aisle electric lift truck (8 ft-10 ft) designed for specifically for pallet rack storage 2 deep pallets. Not suitable for loading trucks and trailers. Industrial battery and charger are required.
Capacity: 1,500 to 5,500 lbs
Rough Terrain Forklift-Internal Combustion Engine
Rough Terrain Forklifts are design to go “Over the river and trough the woods to grandmother’s house we go…”
Side Loader- Electric and Internal Combustion Engine
Design to pick up and carry long loads length wise down narrow aisle and door ways.
Stand-Up Counter Balance Electric Lift Truck
This forklift is used indoors, primarily on loading docks in conjunction with Narrow Aisle lift truck loading trucks and trailers. Industrial battery and charger required.
Capacity: 1,500 to 5,500 lbs
Straddle Stacker/Straddle Walkie Stacker-Electric-Manuel
Stackers are general utility lift trucks that are electric or manual. General used in smaller warehouses for staging product. May require industrial battery and charger.
Capacity: 1,500 to 4,000
Sweepers & Scrubbers
Design to cleaner warehouse floors. Can be powered by L/P gas of electric
Swing Mast Rider Electric & Internal Combustion Engine
Used to store pallets/product in very narrow aisles using rotating mast that’s swings 90 degrees to one side to enable stacking without turning the lift truck.
Capacity: 3,000 to 8,000 lbs
Telescopic Rough Terrain Lift Truck-IC
Telescopic boom lift trucks are designed to work outdoors on soft terrain. Another “over the river and through woods….” lift trucks.
Truck Mounted Lift Truck/Sod Loader
Lift Trucks that are designed to be carrier on the back of delivery trucks and trailers. They can dismount from the delivery truck and unload the material that was ordered by the customer. Typically diesel powered.
Capacity: 2,500 to 8,000 lbs
Turret Mast Rider Electric/Man Down & Man Models
Very narrow aisle lift truck allows storage of pallets in pallet racking less than 6 ft. Mast and carriage turns 90 degrees. Needs very level floors and may come with wire guidance system. Industrial battery and charger required.
Capacity: 3,000 to 6,000 lbs
Electric Walkie and Walkie- Ride Pallet Jacks
Warehouse use for loading, unloading trailers and order pulling. Very popular in grocery warehouses. There models to walk behind as the pallet jack travels, called Walkie, and models you can stand on and ride call Walkie-Ride. Capacity:
3000 lb to 8000 lb
Battery Operated with charger