Truck Mounted ForkliftTraining – Good or Bad?

I’m a big proponent of truck mounted equipment for obvious reasons.   But there are only a handful of companies around the world that manufacture them. Palfinger Crayler, Moffett Mounty, Princeton, Donkey (yep that is the name), and others to name but a few.  They provide an alternative to using a crane, which is limted to reach/capacity, whereby a truck carried forklift can move loads pretty much anywhere you want them to be, with operators that do not require any for of specific training (although we do provide TMF training), and can be a massive productivity increase machine. If you have a TMF and are considering training, this is not the same as conventional forklift training we do, these as you

Riding the Load Under The Crane, Good Idea or Bad?

So what do your employees do when they leave the yard for delivery? Do you know if they are doing everything they can to stay safe and keep everyone around them safe? Do you trust your employees to do the right ‘thing’ whatever that may be? In this case, it’s total disregard for his own safety, wrong use of the equipment, and given there are people recording this video and a gate less than 1M away, bad choices clearly were made here. Yes, some may feel it’s quite funny, well he didn’t get hurt is some responses I get to this!  Are you kidding me?  what about leaving the vehicle unattended as he was on the load, unsupported, truck clearly

Truck Mounted Forklift Training Program

It’s been overdue and forgotten that the forklifts carried on the back of the trucks and trailers we see every day moving down the road are funny looking – yes, difficult to operate – no, but very unique in their own way. They clearly have 3-wheels, look like an all-terrain forklift of which they are and they also move product to places that aren’t normally accessible by a crane or certainly not by carrying. Roofing companies like Roofmart as well as Totem, Rona, Home Depot and others have now switched or are switching over from crane delivery to using a truck mounted forklift. Click HERE to Contact us for a Quote to train your operators The reasoning is two fold,