Jungheinrich are developing a new outdoors truck, code named the P30i.  This is a high voltage electric forklift truck in the shell of a diesel truck.  The P30i is the first lithium-ion truck with the power and driving ability of a combustion engine truck.   Compared with a diesel truck, the ..
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  This week we have three courses taking place in the North of England, as well as at our training centre and on customer premises in Banbury.   We have three instructors heading north to deliver training in Ashton under Lyne, Leeds and Nottingham to deliver refresher training on counterba ..
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A Company has recently been fined over £533,000 plus further costs after an employee was seriously injured when he was struck by a forklift truck.   The worker was walking across the depot when he was struck by a reversing forklift truck.  The worker was trapped on the ground and had to be fr ..
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January is turning out to be a busy month for Stackers Training with courses running at our training centre as well as on customer premises in Banbury, Leighton Buzzard, Norwich, Wallingford and Reading.   We are also training on a variety of trucks this month – counterbalance, reach, pedestr ..
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Happy New Year to all our customers and trainees.     Stackers Training celebrates it’s 20th birthday this year – 20 years since it was founded by Nick Marshall in early 2000.   Stackers has come a long way since then and now has a team of RTITB registered instructors and it’s o ..
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This week we’re training at a garden centre near Staines-upon-Thames in Middlesex.  The Christmas displays are wonderful and the centre is busy with shoppers preparing for the big day.   Staines was renamed Staines-upon-Thames in 2012.  The town is inside the M25 motorway, 17 miles south-we ..
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The International Materials Handling Exhibition (IMHX) is increasing it’s frequency to every two years.  This means that the next event will be 14 – 16 September 2021 at the NEC, Birmingham.   The show has been held every 3 years since it was launched in 2001 but research has demonstrated ..
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This week we’ve been carrying out novice training in Woodstock, as well as training on customer premises in Banbury and Booker, Buckinghamshire.   Woodstock is a historic market town, just to the north of Oxford.  It grew up as a coach stop around the Royal Hunting Lodge, which later became ..
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As a regular user of Linde forklift trucks (and having four Linde trucks at our training centre near Banbury) we were interested to learn that Linde is celebrating 70 years at their Basingstoke site.   Linde has a strong heritage in the UK, they first started out in 1943 under the name of Lansi ..
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During October, for the last 11 years, the Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) has annually campaigned to help raise awareness of key issues affecting forklift truck safety.   A forklift truck is one of the most useful pieces of workplace equipment but also one of the most dangerous.  On averag ..
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