How far away are you before leaving a forklift unattended? - Find out

No matter how you slice it, it isn't right. But in a tough economy and tougher job market employers are often requiring applicants to hold a forklift operators certification as a condition of employment. It's disturbing because the individual wasn't certified on the potential employers equipment or in their work environment. You can only see this prerequisite as a move to shift the cost of that training back to the individual.

Subsequently, with the aid and generosity of Toyota Material Handling, TLM is holding training classes for unemployed veterans at NO COST or obligation for our vets. After training the veteran will hold his or her certification card for forklift classes one through five.

We have already trained over fifty vets this year [the most recent class topped one dozen], and will be working throughout the year to help as many as possible. Please if you know of a veteran that could use this in their job search put them in contact with us.

Registration can be done over the phone, or by watching our event calendar link found at the top of most of our website pages. You can view the next event through this link.

They have served us, we all should work to do something to show our gratitude.

There are a lot of things that work towards faster and safer repairs, quicker turn arounds for those shop jobs that too often seem like [from the vantage point of the customer] a trip to the twilight zone. Some of those things don't come cheap, but some of the best things don't.

I had an opportunity to come across field tech Bob Rades working on a unit in the shop. Normally Bob does his work in the field but he followed this repair in and performed it in the aisle, presumably for lack of work space in our production area.

 Forward or Backward, with and without a load. What is the safest method?

The "Operator Presence Sensing System" or "OPSS" for short was introduced on all 7-Series sit down forklift products in the fall of 2005 in response to a new safety standard required by the "American Society of Mechanical Engineers" (ASME B56.1). The new standard states, "Powered travel shall be possible only if the operator is in the normal operating position", The standard also states: "Powered travel may not occur automatically when the operator returns to the normal operating position without additional operations".

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Each of us has a Rolodex full of vendors; some used frequently, others not so much. It is a confusing collection of information and I'm always looking for ways to responsibly limit its size. One such way for many of our customers is our own on-line catalog and what is provided in it.

Available are all things warehouse, shipping and safety. Sure you can get these things from a thousand other vendors but through TLM you have two additional benefits. First you're likely already our customer so you would be keeping your vendor count down. Second, you have in a person [Sue Jungclaus] someone you can actually talk to with questions about products, or any inquiry about an order. Third, responsibility. As a customer of Toyota-Lift of Minnesota you are going to receive from us the same support you will get in any transaction. If something should go wrong, TLM will work through the problem with you with an unparalleled level of customer service commitment.

Just take a quick look at what we have. You will need to create a login account to order but it's a small quick step, then you're on your way. You can also call Sue with a page number and product and she can process your order over the phone. Give it a try. Find our catalog quickly through this link.

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