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Give Your Budget Some Breathing Room: The Case for Buying Used Forklifts

Joyce Schwob - July 10, 2025

When economic conditions start to shift, your business has to adapt quickly in order to survive. That means making smart decisions that ensure you can effectively serve your customers, complete your jobs, and avoid overextending yourself financially. In terms of equipment, if you need to expand your capabilities fast without a capital commitment, then renting Read more

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Give Your Budget Some Breathing Room: The Case for Buying Used Forklifts

Joyce Schwob - July 2, 2025

If you’re looking to expand your capabilities with high quality, budget friendly machines, then used forklifts are a great option. They help you reduce your upfront costs, avoid tariffs and potential supply chain delays, and are a ready source of reliable equipment that can go to work for you now. In this article, we cover Read more

What to Check When Buying Used Forklifts in Western NY

Joyce Schwob - December 9, 2024

Used forklifts help you expand your fleet at a lower cost than buying new, saving you money and freeing up your cash for other parts of your business. The catch is that you have to be careful about what you’re purchasing, so you know it will perform the job you need it to, and so Read more

Why Choose a Toyota Forklift?

Joyce Schwob - November 26, 2024

Top Reasons to Choose a Toyota Forklift Toyota forklifts are some of the most popular types of material handling equipment in the industry. They are consistently on the cutting edge when it comes to new technology and features, and they are well known for their reliability, durability, and efficiency. Adding a Toyota forklift to your Read more

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May the Forks Be with You – Free Forklift Forks Inspection

Joyce Schwob - April 19, 2024

Every May at JIT we celebrate what we like to call “May the Forks Be with You.” It’s a combination of three things that our team loves: Forklifts, Star Wars, and the month of May. The way we celebrate this annual tradition is by ensuring your forklift is as effective as it can be. It Read more

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Signs You Need to Replace Forklift Tires

Joyce Schwob - June 14, 2023

When to Replace Your Forklift Tires You depend on your forklift to move your products and complete daily operations in your facility, and your forklift depends on its tires. Worn out forklift tires can cause instability for the machine and for whatever it is moving, stopping or accelerating can become more difficult, and potentially dangerous Read more

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Fleet Management Tips

Joyce Schwob - April 17, 2023

Your company has a lot invested in its forklifts. If you have multiple forklifts in operation, you need to be strategic about keeping them safely running for as long as possible. To help you maintain your return on investment, we’ve put together several forklift fleet management strategies. Planned maintenance Performing planned maintenance (PMs) according to Read more

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Choose Your Forklift First

Joyce Schwob - October 11, 2022

Why Choose Your New Forklift before Designing Your Warehouse Operation When it comes to warehouse efficiency and developing a successful operation, we suggest that you start with your forklift. This machine is at the heart of your material handling processes and is the backbone of your warehouse. Once you determine which new forklift is best Read more

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Can You Drive an Electric Forklift Outside?

Joyce Schwob - October 10, 2022

WHICH ELECTRIC FORKLIFTS ARE OK TO DRIVE OUTDOORS? At JIT, we carry a wide variety of pneumatic tire electric forklifts. A question that we get a lot is whether or not you should be using an electric forklift outside, or if they are only for indoor warehouse applications. Because modern electric models can deliver just Read more

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Tips for Forklift Filters

Joyce Schwob - July 18, 2022

Filters are some of the most important forklift components. They are used to keep fuel, oil, and hydraulic fluids clean and pure as they flow throughout your machine’s systems, lubricating parts and dispersing heat. Small pieces of material and particles created by component wear and tear are picked up by your forklift’s oil and hydraulic Read more