by benyoung | Oct 6, 2026 | Forklift Knowledge
Walk into a warehouse and the layout can look surprisingly simple. Rows of racking. Long straight aisles. Pallets stacked neatly on either side. Forklifts travelling up and down the gaps between them. But here’s an interesting question: Who decided how wide...
by benyoung | Oct 6, 2026 | Forklift Training
It’s 10:17am on a Tuesday. A busy distribution centre is operating normally. Lorries are arriving at goods-in. Forklifts are moving pallets into racking. Pickers are assembling customer orders. Dispatch is preparing vehicles due to leave later that morning....
by benyoung | Sep 25, 2026 | Forklift Knowledge
A pallet of identical cardboard boxes is relatively straightforward. It’s stable, evenly distributed, properly wrapped and designed to be handled by a forklift. But what happens when the load is six metres long? Or when it’s an expensive piece of machinery...
by benyoung | Sep 25, 2026 | Supply Chain
You order a new coffee machine online. Two days later, a delivery driver knocks on your door and hands you a cardboard box. You open it, unpack your purchase and put the kettle on. Simple. Except the journey that coffee machine took to reach your kitchen was anything...
by benyoung | Sep 18, 2026 | Forklift Knowledge
It’s sitting quietly in the corner of the warehouse. A wooden pallet. Shrink-wrapped. Several boxes stacked neatly on top. Nothing particularly unusual about it. Except nobody knows what it is. The label is damaged. It isn’t sitting in a recognised stock...