Fork lift trucks: the great forward leap

Most people think the fork lift truck hasn't changed much in the last twenty years. They could be wrong. In fact, our contributor thinks that the “re‐shaping” of the truck has now generated a large family of specialised trucks, each designed for a narrower purpose, but each more versatile. The fork lift truck can now do almost the same job as a computer‐controlled stacker crane — but at much less cost. With the rapid spread of EPOS techniques this is happening at the right time.