It is a big decision buying a forklift and will require you to consider your companies needs and specifications. You also need to decide whether it is best for your company to purchase a new or used one, or even rent one. This in itself has many advantages and disadvantages and reasons for and against.

Businesses with smaller budgets will be more likely to go down the used forklift root, but you may be surprised that a new forklift may cost a little less in the long run. New forklifts will last a lot longer which means the business owners will get the benefit of the forklift for a lot longer, and therefore recoup the amount spent.

Renting a forklift may be ideal if you are only needing a forklift for a short while, but if you need it for more than a few months say, you must consider buying a new or used one.

Make sure that someone in your work place has a forklift licence otherwise you wil lbe breaking the law by not having a designated driver, or drivers to operate the vehicle. Also make sure your work place is meeting all health and safety guidelines to do with operating forklifts.

Forklifts have attachments which can turn them into pretty much anything including a crane and you should consider the attachments available for forklifts before going ahead and purchasing or renting another piece of equipment, this may also give you incentive to buy one rather than rent.

As well as just a forklift, it can be made into almost any tool for the warehouse with the use of attachments. You can also save the fuel that you use with your forklifts by using truck mounted ones. This can really save your company a lot of money, as well as training costs, by not having to buy different trucks. The one truck with different attachments can serve most purposes in a warehouse.

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