Furniture Village selects Atlet for high and heavy work

As an existing supplier of forklifts at two of Furniture Village’s satellite warehouses, Atlet, along with four other suppliers, was invited to bid.

Group warehouse manager Andy Long says: "We are now moving heavy furniture at heights of over 11 metres so needed trucks that would meet our health and safety requirements to ensure driver safety and comfort.”

Long explains his selection criteria. "Out of all the suppliers we approached, Atlet was the only one that really took the time to understand what we were trying to achieve. Matt Prentice, Atlet’s dedicated Furniture Village account manager looked in a lot of detail and talked us through various options to give us the best solution possible.”

Atlet has supplied Furniture Village with one ET-15 counterbalance truck, three Tempo PPL low level order pickers and three of its new generation heavy-duty reach trucks, the Tergo UHX.

Designed to perform almost any heavy-duty 24/7 material handling task, the UHX is the ideal reach truck for extremely high stacking. It provides the ideal solution for Furniture Village’s demanding operations, as Prentice explains: "The reach truck is extremely stable at height due to the strength of the mast and smoothness of the controls.”