Pressure perfect – The importance of hydraulic system maintenance

When you’re a lift truck operator, you’re feeling the pressure in more ways than one: the safety and productivity demands of the job, certainly. But also quite literally from what makes the difference between a lift truck and just a truck: the hydraulic system.

Hydraulics is where the power for every lift task comes from. The system consists of many different components, all working in harmony, to make it possible to lift, extend, steer… Any motion, in fact, other than forward and reverse.