A full 200 litre drum weighs somewhere around 200 to 250 kilograms, and it is an awkward shape to move. Tilting, lifting or decanting one by hand is how warehouse staff end up with back injuries, and a dropped drum of oil or chemical is a spill, a clean up and a...
Nobody asks this question before they hire. Everybody asks it at eleven o’clock on the morning it happens, usually with a container waiting outside. It is worth five minutes of thought beforehand, because the answer varies enormously between suppliers and it is...
Rental period is usually treated as an afterthought. Someone needs a forklift, they ask for a price, and the length of hire is whatever the job happens to be. That is a missed opportunity, because the period is the single lever with the biggest effect on what you pay...
Most forklift service contracts in the UAE look similar on the front page and behave very differently on the day a truck stops working. The price per machine per year tells you almost nothing on its own. What matters is what triggers a visit, how fast someone arrives,...
Ask five suppliers what a reach truck costs in the UAE and you will get five ranges and a lot of “it depends”. Here is the honest version. A new electric reach truck from ARAS starts from AED 65,000, and where your machine lands above that comes down to...
A distribution operator in the UAE, often a third-party logistics (3PL) or wholesale business running a single large shed in Jebel Ali or Dubai Industrial City, comes to us with two problems at the same time. Their diesel counterbalance forklifts are getting old and...
