Commentary and Opinion Regular readers of this blog may recall when I facetiously pitched an idea for a reality show based on the growing popularity of forklift rodeos. Well, apparently a television production company in New Zealand had the same idea because the “World Forklift League” TV show currently is filming in locations throughout the … Read more
Air Products — a leading industrial gases company based in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania — announced recently that it has partnered with Japan’s Suzuki Shokan Co. to work together on the design, construction and operation of hydrogen fueling stations for Japanese forklifts. The purpose of the pact is to find ways to provide cleaner, more cost-equipment … Read more
Editor’s Note: In today’s Thursday Feature, we travel to upstate New York, where a pair of enterprising sisters have turned what some would see as a symbol of a declining industry and spun it into gold … or at least golden waffles and delicious fluffy pancakes. The town of Greece, located in upstate New York … Read more
A lawsuit filed by Clark forklifts against Japanese giant Toyota will finally get its day in court tomorrow. The jury trial in the case of Clark Materials Handling Co. versus Toyota Material Halding USA Inc. (TMHU) is slated to begin Tuesday morning in front of US District Judge Max O. Cogburn, of the Western District … Read more
The God’s Pantry Food Bank, located in Lexington, Kentucky, received an unusual donation from a local industrial vehicles dealer last month: A forklift. The donation was the result of a recommendation from Pete Sackleh, a sales rep at ProLift Industrial Equipment who also is a volunteer at the food bank, Kentucky’s largest. The refurbished forklift … Read more
For the sixth year in a row, Toyota remains the top provider of forklift in Australia. The Japanese manufacturer of heavy machinery also retained its title as the number one provider or internal combustion counter balance forklifts, a record it has held for 28 years. Toyota forklifts accounted for 32.4% of the market share in … Read more
A Goodwill store in the state of Washington was fined $9,000 last week by the state’s labor department in connection with a fatal forklift accident that occurred last August. Investigators said the stores management should have provided more training for a forklift operator who accidentally ran over and killed a 69-year-old pedestrian in the store’s … Read more
A 61-year-old Welsh man who was found with a forklift that had been reported stolen from his employer claimed that the whole thing was just a big mix-up. But a British court found Philip Kirby guilty of theft and ordered him to pay $1,244 to his employer and $777 in court costs. He also was … Read more
This week’s Video of the Week comes from the popular CBS-TV program “Undercover Boss” which originally aired Sunday, December 14, 2014. John Hartmann, the chief executive officer of True Value Hardware, visited one of the chain’s distribution centers in Springfield, Oregon, where he was paired with a veteran True Value forklift operator named Terrell. ‘Undercover … Read more
First, the good news: The US economy grew 3.9% in the third quarter — from July to September — according to a report issued last month by the US Commerce Department. That rapid growth rate comes on the heels of an even more astonishing 4.6% growth rate during Q2, from April to June. That rosy … Read more
