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A leading farm equipment supplier has upgraded its material-handling fleet by
commissioning 18 Toyota forklifts across its 11 branches in southern New SouthWales.
Hutcheon and Pearce is a third-generation
dealership for world-leading agricultural
equipment manufacturer John Deere, and
Toyota is a world leader in forklift design, safety
and sales.
The 18 forklifts were delivered by Toyota
Material Handling Australia’s (TMHA) through
Liftek.
Liftek has been supplying forklifts to Hutcheon
and Pearce for the last five years and provides
top-level product support through its eight fully
equipped service vehicles.
The 18 Toyota units include seven new Toyota
8-Series 8FD30 three-tonne payload diesel
forklifts and three new 8FD50N five-tonne
payload forklifts, plus eight fully refurbished
forklifts ranging in capacity from 1 to 8 tonnes.
Hutcheon and Pearce managing director Arron
Hutcheon said the forklifts are the ‘forgotten
heroes’ of the company’s fleet.
“We want our staff to have the best equipment
available to do their job,” he said. “Our mixed
forklift fleet had grown to over 20 forklifts as we
have expanded over the years and acquired
more dealerships.
“Some of the forklifts in the fleet were well
overdue for replacement and when we started
looking at our options, we soon realised we had
two main objectives - to update the whole fleet
to see us through the next 10 years, and to do
this with a product that has the same ‘practice
what you preach’ principles as the John Deere
products we sell.
“This led us to Liftek and Toyota. We wanted a
solution that could deliver on four key principles
- product quality, reliability, dealer support and
resale value - as we feel these are the same
ones that give us our competitive advantage.
“We would especially like to thank (Liftek
managing director) Chaise Staltare and his
father Vince for their support.”
With a quarter of a century as a Toyota forklift
provider, Mr Staltare said the company’s service
support arrangements matched the needs of
Hutcheon and Pearce and its forklifts.
“The 11 Hutcheon and Pearce branches are
mainly spread out within two to three hours of
the Griffith area in all directions,” he said.
“All the branches are located in country towns
that we already service, which gave us the edge
for support as our eight fully equipped service
and breakdown vehicles were travelling to the
areas already.”
Toyota’s large-capacity pneumatic-tyre forklifts,
as supplied to Hutcheon and Pearce, have won
several prestigious design awards in recent
years.
In 2015 the Hannover-based iF International
Forum Design named Toyota’s 8-Series 3.5
to 8.0-tonne engine-powered counter-balance
forklift as one of three Toyota forklift group
design-award winners.
Toyota’s 8-Series forklift range had previously
received a Special Mention in the German
Design Awards in 2015 (the first forklift to do so)
and won Japan’s Good Design Award in 2014.
Key safety features of the 8-Series include
Toyota’s exclusive System of Active Stability,
which helps reduce the likelihood of lateral roll-
overs.
Liftek managing director - Chaise Staltare and Hutcheon and Pearce managing director Arron Hutcheon
