The Machines, Manufacturers and Ideas That Built the Modern Material-Handling Industry Walk into almost any warehouse, manufacturing plant, steel mill, lumber yard or distribution center today and you’ll find a machine that looks immediately familiar. Counterweight in the rear, operator in the middle, mast in the
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In most parts of the forklift business, inventory is expected to turn. Buy the right machine, price it correctly, and move it along. But once you get into very high-capacity forklifts, the economics change. Sometimes the right decision is to buy a forklift knowing it may
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Here at Forklift Exchange, we are always trying to find the right solutions to our customers’ problems, and sometimes we need to get a little creative. When the original operating system on a customer’s Versa-Lift 40/60 began causing issues, our service team developed a comprehensive solution:
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Once an operation moves beyond everyday warehouse forklifts and into serious high-capacity equipment, the market changes quickly. The number of available machines gets smaller, the applications become more specialized, and choosing the right truck becomes much more important. Finding the forklift is only part of the
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We Buy Forklifts – But We Are Selective About What We Buy The used forklift market changes constantly. Some machines are easy to place. Others are difficult to replace once they are gone. At Forklift Exchange, we are actively purchasing used forklifts across the country, but
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One conversation I have had hundreds of times over the years starts the same way: “Gene, I found a forklift online that is $8,000 cheaper than yours.” Sometimes, they are absolutely right. Sometimes they have found an excellent machine at a great price. But just as
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One of the things this business has taught me over the years is that the best forklifts rarely get anyattention. Nobody calls me to say,“Gene, our forklift worked perfectly again today.” They call when production stops.They call when a shipment cannot get loaded.They call when an
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People often ask why Forklift Exchange is so successful with large-capacity forklifts. The answer isn’t marketing. It’s experience. For decades, we owned and operated what was, at the time, the world’s largest manufacturer of large-capacity cushion tire forklifts. We didn’t just sell the product—we designed it,
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What Makes One Used Forklift Worth $12,000 and Another Worth $22,000? Two forklifts can have the same capacity, the same fuel type, and even similar hours, yet sell for dramatically different prices. To someone looking at a few online listings, that difference can seem arbitrary. It
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