What is a Reach Truck?
A Reach Truck is an electric forklift, and islso referred to as narrow-aisle truck. They are designed to rack pallets on smooth surfaces. There are either single-reach or double-reach trucks. A single-reach can extend the lenth of one pallet and a double-reach can extend the length of two pallets. Capacities range form 2,500 lbs – 5,500 lbs.
The reach truck is a loading device that is used by a number of different types of businesses that maintain a storage area that involves the arrangement of supplies and finished goods on pallets that are inserted into tall shelving structures. The reach truck provides safe and easy retrieval of the loaded pallets, as well as efficiently storing pallets of goods that are not required for immediate use. Here is a description of the basic reach truck, as well as examples of the three main types of reach trucks. The basic reach truck has an outrigging mechanism on the front of the truck. Mounted to the outrigging is a set of telescoping forks that move up and down. The forks also include a hydraulic setup that allows the operator to pick up the load and reposition it over the outriggers. This not only provides a more even balance of the load, but also makes it easier to maneuver the reach truck into narrow aisles between the storage shelves. When the reach truck arrives at the shelves desi
