2009 Lift Truck Usage Study Results

摘要

Before the recession of 2008 and 2009, the results of a lift truck usage study would have been an excellent reflection of how fleet managers are planning to upgrade their current fleets over the next 12 months. However, when you ask fleet managers about their relationship with lift trucks these days, they say that much depends on how the future takes shape.rnThe good news is, this year's Lift Truck Usage study, conducted by sister magazine Logistics Management, has such context behind the findings. The added analysis of two lift truck industry experts helps to identify those characteristics and issues that should and will be important to fleet managers in the near future. Jim Shephard, president of Shephard's Industrial Training Systems in Memphis, Tenn., and Ken Van Hook, president of Safe-T-Consultants in Humble, Texas, will offer some answers in a time when many see a lot of question marks in the months to come.