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Sales Department
How Often Should You Replace Your Forklift?
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 To maintain a proper level of efficiency and safety, it is important to know when you need to replace your forklift. Older, less efficient forklifts can become a burden to the warehouse. They can make it harder for employees to be effective in their jobs. Frustration over a forklift that is slow or in constant need of repair can increase maintenance expenses, slow productivity and frustrate your staff. How do you know when it is time to replace your warehouses forklift? Consider the MaintenanceAre you diligent in keeping your forklift properly maintained? If you do not have it serviced regularly, you can end up causing the forklift to age quickly. Business owners must be aware of the maintenance requirements to keep their forklift working safely and effectively. If the machine is always in need of repair, it can increase your costs as profits suffer while your staff has to wait for the machine to be repaired. It slows the productivity of the warehouse and becomes a hindrance on your staff. Several companies use forklifts longer than they should. When a forklift is pushed too far past its lifespan, it can increase the risk of accidents. You can end up spending more money to continually repair your forklift versus investing in a modern machine.
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 "They made us remove the side shifter from our forklift so it could lift more. How much capacity did we gain?"
Removing an attachment will change the numbers involved in calculating the trucks capacity. To know specifically, what that change is, work with the truck's local dealership to order a new data plate. OSHA requires an accurate data plate. Please see that someone initiates that request now.
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For the Veterans - Free Forklift Safety Certification
Know a Vet? Let's Help the Vet!
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 With the support of Toyota Material Handling, Toyota Lift of Minnesota has been certifying veterans for forklift operation for over two years. That work continues still. Our next class is scheduled for September 9th, with another scheduled for October 7th. You can read more about the September date and register through this link. Click here for the October date's information. Please forward to anyone that may be interested or qualified for this certification. As stated, we will be continually offering additional dates through 2014. You can always watch our event calendar for updates on class scheduling. We work to have dates set on the calendar for the two upcoming months. Our hats off to Toyota Material Handling for their ongoing support for our veterans. |
Manage Your Risks and Costs
Forklift Safety: Act Now, Train Your Own Trainer
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 Limit risk to your employees, product and equipment by having well trained and certified forklift operators. With new personnel coming in and others changing positions, how can you manage your risk and control your expenses effectively? One answer is by having your own forklift trainer on staff. An individual familiar with your equipment, your physical layout and your company's plan and vision. Toyota Lift of Minnesota is holding another "Train the Trainer" course September 23rd. We invite you to look at the details and decide if it is time for you to control your risks and costs. Train the Trainer can be an easy choice. Follow this link to see more. |
| Parts Department
Much More than Simply Parts Is Parts
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 Often I'm reminded that behind every good technician there are some excellent parts people. Toyota Lift of Minnesota like many dealerships has over the years been fortunate to find, develop, then retain excellent personnel to staff both the front and back part counters. These folks fight the good fight daily balancing multiple demands on their time, differing order cut off times, part requests with varying levels of completeness regarding information and so much more. |
"Can't our people make at least small repairs to our forklift? What qualifications are required to do that sort of thing?"
An individual doing the repairs has to be competent and authorized. OSHA requirement 1910.178(q)(1) states "All repairs shall be made by authorized personnel." The regulation doesn't define a lot, and we don't have information from anyone at OSHA who can give the authorization, but we'll assume it's the equipment's owner. More, we'll point to OSHA's general duty clause which in short says you have to do everything you can to maintain a safe working environment. You will most certainly want to be responsible about who you authorize to work on your forklift. Part of that job is always being vigilant for any developing safety concerns.
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| Service Department
8 Savings Found In Your Forklift Service Manual
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 First a secret, as a dealership we're unable to secure maintenance agreements with the majority of businesses using our product. There, we said it. Now that is out there we'll state why that is concerning. First it means that as a business we are missing out on some aftermarket support dollars, no one would applaud that. Secondly, important to the user and to our original equipment manufacturers is that without close dealership support, a product is very likely not to operate at optimum levels and it is quite likely the equipment will have its service life shortened. If the owner/user's experience is less than satisfactory, do you think they will repeat that purchase? |
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Some days may make it feel that way
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 See more material handling photos and videos [many of them fun] at our Pinterest site. Follow this link. |
Rental Department
5 Service Measurements with Rental Forklifts
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 Rental forklifts are available through established forklift dealerships, national rental companies, and in the opinion of some, more than enough small forklift shops. Each is vying for your business, all doing it by offering more or less the same product or products. There can be differences however that set one agency apart from the others. |
Warehousing Systems
Avoid These Common Warehouse Layout Mistakes
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 It's not easy to understand when facility layout is causing significant problems for an operation. Everything in a warehouse or distribution facility can be affected by the way the warehouse is planned and laid out. You may be suffering from over-forecasted demand for product and under-forecasted need for square footage. Executives may not fully understand what it takes to receive, store, and ship orders. What are some of the more common problems when it comes to facility layout? You may have some limitations on that, but you often can tweak, reconfigure, or otherwise change the layout of your facility so that it is more productive, uses its space correctly, or reduces overhead costs. .
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About Us
Toyota Lift of Minnesota has been serving its customers and the industry for over 35 years. Our mission is to improve your productivity and bottom line through better products, services and customer service personnel.
Toyota-Lift of Minnesota
8601 Xylon Court North
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55445
Phone 763-425-9066 Toll Free 800-523-0611
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| GSA Sales
Providing Product and Service Leadership
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Offering most favored customer pricing and volume discounts, Toyota Lift Truck brings you savings in both time and money. Through Toyota Lift's GSA Schedule, you can purchase Toyota forklifts, the number one rated forklift in the world for quality and customer satisfaction. Also we offer Crown industrial batteries.
- Pre-qualification of pricing and quality has already been done by GSA for all government purchasers
- Through Toyota Lift of Minnesota's GSA Schedule, customers benefit from a direct relationship with volume discount pricing, 100% quality products, warranty and delivery, with significant opportunities to help meet your small business goals
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Contact Toyota Lift of Minnesota for your GSA Schedule needs.
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 | Free OSHA Forklift Rules Poster
Would look great in your lunchroom! | Call us or email us at
sales@toyotaequipment.com
We'll mail one off to you immediately! |
 | On Line Catalog:
Great Source For Warehouse Supplies | | Toyota Lift of Minnesota offers you an easy way to shop for all your associated needs. Follow the link below and see for yourself. From lockers to storage bins, we have it all.
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Not near as popular around the web, this is another lift of a lift. This time using a Mitsubishi to load the Toyota..
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| Lift Truck Stuff Catalog
Great Source For All Things Forklift |
A catalog that brings it all together for you. Our "Everything Around the Lift Truck" catalog. Click the link below to review or download it or place your on-line order. It's that easy.
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