Top Tips for Warehouse Rack Safety

Joyce Schwob - February 2, 2023

When it comes to organizing your warehouse, pallet rack safety is a key part of it. You have to rely on your storage systems and equipment every day, constantly stacking and moving products whenever necessary. In order to maintain efficiencies throughout your operation, we’ve put together some critical warehouse rack safety tips to help keep Read more

IS IT TIME TO REPLACE THE BATTERY IN YOUR FORKLIFT?

Joyce Schwob - January 27, 2023

HOW TO CHOOSE WHICH BATTERY IS BEST FOR YOUR FORKLIFT TRADITIONAL LEAD ACID, SEALED LEAD ACID, OR LITHIUM ION? Forklift batteries come in many different shapes, sizes, and types. Choosing the best option for your forklift and warehouse is crucial to ensuring an effective, efficient, and safe operation. The question is, how do you know Read more

How Much Can a Forklift Lift?

Joyce Schwob - December 6, 2022

Understanding your forklift capacity is crucial to using it safely and effectively in your warehouse or other material handling operation. Just because your forklift says its rated capacity is 20,000 lb doesn’t mean that it can lift that amount in all situations. The dimensions of the load, its placement, and its weight distribution can all Read more

Club Car Batteries

Joyce Schwob - October 28, 2022

Club Car Battery Replacement Tips: One at a Time or All at Once? Batteries are arguably the most important component in an electric utility vehicle. After all, they provide the power that the UTV needs to move from place to place and carry everything from people and tools, to dirt, equipment, and other materials. Eventually, Read more

Choose Your Forklift First

Joyce Schwob - October 11, 2022

Why Choose Your New Forklift before Designing Your Warehouse Operation When it comes to warehouse efficiency and developing a successful operation, we suggest that you start with your forklift. This machine is at the heart of your material handling processes and is the backbone of your warehouse. Once you determine which new forklift is best Read more

Can You Drive an Electric Forklift Outside?

Joyce Schwob - October 10, 2022

WHICH ELECTRIC FORKLIFTS ARE OK TO DRIVE OUTDOORS? At JIT, we carry a wide variety of pneumatic tire electric forklifts. A question that we get a lot is whether or not you should be using an electric forklift outside, or if they are only for indoor warehouse applications. Because modern electric models can deliver just Read more

Forklift filters

Tips for Forklift Filters

Joyce Schwob - July 18, 2022

Filters are some of the most important forklift components. They are used to keep fuel, oil, and hydraulic fluids clean and pure as they flow throughout your machine’s systems, lubricating parts and dispersing heat. Small pieces of material and particles created by component wear and tear are picked up by your forklift’s oil and hydraulic Read more

3 Signs You Might Need a New Forklift

Joyce Schwob - July 14, 2022

Your forklift works hard every single day moving around product and making your operation much more efficient. But the day will eventually come when your old forklift stops working as effectively or efficiently as it once did. Do you know what your “Cost per hour” is? Does it exceed the manufacturer’s guidelines? If so, it’s in Read more

Forklift Operation Best Practices

Joyce Schwob - June 22, 2022

When it comes to forklift operation, the most common cause of equipment issues and repairs is operator error. To help you avoid any accidents, dangerous situations, or costly downtime, we’ve put together a list of forklift tips and best practices to maintain a productive operating environment. ALWAYS CONDUCT A WALKAROUND INSPECTION Before beginning forklift operation, Read more

National Forklift Safety Day is June 14 2022

Joyce Schwob - May 26, 2022

National Forklift Safety Day is sponsored by the Industrial Truck Association.  On this day manufacturers call attention to the dangers of forklift operation and seek to educate customers, the public, and government officials about safe forklift operation. There are over 540,000 industrial truck operators employed in the United States. Keeping them operating safely benefits every Read more