Site capacity increased
September 1st 2011 A fleet of JCB Teletruks has saved
recycling firm WasteCare 40 minutes per
trailer, effectively increasing site capacity
by 40%
By using a JCB Teletruk telescopic lift truck instead of a
traditional counterbalance forklift, specialist recycler
WasteCare is saving 40 minutes on each trailer at its Leeds
headquarters. An average 15 to 18 trailers arrive for unloading
and cross re-loading each day.
This means a theoretical 10-12 hours is saved each day. In
practice the time saved is absorbed by a greater HGV throughput
without the need to increase the size of the site. WasteCare
estimates it is achieving a 40% increase in site capacity.
In this way JCB Teletruks are helping WasteCare cope with
strong growth in business. The recycling and waste management
company acquired ten JCB TLT 25D Teletruks in June 2010 for
use across its network of depots. Four of these 2.5 tonne diesel
Teletruks have replaced seven traditional, masted counterbalance
forklifts at WasteCare's busy Leeds headquarters.
Yard manager John Kell says: "Working with JCB Teletruks is
faster and safer. The JCBs have changed the way we work.We
used to work with long fork extenders which are cumbersome
and awkward to use especially with double deck trailers because
you can't see onto the top deck.With fork extenders it took two
men and two forklifts to tip a 40 foot trailer. Now it is one man,
one forklift. Fork extenders don't fit totally snug to the forks so
you've always got some play and therefore some wobble on the
pallet. It's not an easy job. But with the Teletruk we can see where
the forks are at the top of a double decker.We've more control
and therefore we suffer far less damage to IT equipment and
monitors."
Kell is also impressed by the forwards fork tilt to near vertical,
enabling pallets of waste to be tipped into high sided containers.
Also, bins and cages of scrap IT equipment can be emptied into
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