We have a highly high skilled and experience parts and servicing department capable of delivering a high level of quality and service.
Whether you require onsite maintenance or repairs we have the resources and parts to solve your problems with minimum downtime. We maintain the highest standards for servicing levels and parts and work tirelessly to support customer equipment, providing everything required to maintain a safe, efficient, cost effective and reliable fleet.
Milton Keynes Forklift offer forklift truck services across Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire. So, if you require repairs, parts or maintenance, give us a call.
We can provide a comprehensive range of parts for your forklift truck or material handling equipment. We have an incredibly well-stocked warehouse as well as a network of suppliers. We aim to supply parts next day, keeping downtime to a minimum.
To ensure your forklift remains in tip-top condition, Milton Keynes Forklift recommend servicing your truck at least twice a year and at a very minimum annually. This helps guard against unwanted downtime, worn parts and mitigates the potential failure of components.
Unexpected downtime can be costly, especially in the SME sector, waiting all day for an engineer to show up can affect sales and logistics within no time at all.
Milton Keynes Forklift have a team of field-based engineers that travel throughout our service regions on a daily basis. They’re ready to respond to you with well-stocked vans, a ton of knowledge and next day part deliveries in the unlikely event we don’t hold stock of the item you need.
Our team of engineers can be with you no matter if you’re in the far reaches of Oxfordshire or nice and close to our main base of operations in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
While forklifts are workhorses they still need looking after, regular well-maintained trucks are far less likely to breakdown. So if you’re in need of a service, we can help, we can even work out a maintenance programme tailored to your needs.
Even though we’re Mitsubishi trained, we can repair and service all of the major forklift brands, as well as material handling equipment. This is because all of our technicians have the latest diagnostic equipment in their vans, as well as the general everyday items and consumables; so we can get your truck working again as fast as possible.
A forklift truck in the wrong hands can be lethal; in fact, there are tens of thousands of injuries and even deaths each year caused by forklift accidents. This is why being a forklift driver is a specialised job, requiring thorough training by your employer.
Operators need to take the same amount of care as they would do when operating heavy machinery. There are protocols and procedures that have to be adhered to; they’re there to minimise accidents.
These regulations must be implemented and practised.
Just as your car has an MOT, forklifts must have a ‘Thorough Examination’, it’s a way of certifying that at the time of testing all the parts which have an impact on safety are assessed and inspected before being deemed to be in a safe condition for use.
This examination is sperate from your forklifts regular maintenance program, and you shouldn’t consider it as part of your upkeep as it’s legislated and a legal requirement.
A Thorough Examination is mandated in two pieces of Health & Safety legislation, PUWER 98 and LOLER 98.
As an employer and owner the forklift, you must have a Thorough Examination performed on all trucks, including any that you hire out to third parties.
It has to comply with Schedule 1 of LOLER 98, and you have to be able to produce it when required to do so by an enforcement officer.
A Thorough Examination usually has to be carried out every 12 months, just like an MOT. This can change though depending on the trucks use; it can be lowered to 6 or even 4 months.
You must be issued with a ‘Chain Test Certificate’ a ‘Fork Test Certificate’ and a ‘L.O.L.E.R’.
MK Forklifts offers this inspection service, and we’re accredited by the CFTS to carry out ‘Thorough Examination’ inspections.
