What is the most important piece of equipment for container devanners

If you have been container devanning for 1 week, or 10 years, I think we can all agree that there is one piece of equipment that is exceptionally important...

The forklift.

Unfortunately no matter how many wheetbix we eat before work, no one has come close to having the strength of the forklift. Jokes aside, it is a critical piece of machinery to use for the container devanning, or container loading process.

Being able to easily move pallets around a yard, and in and out of the container speeds up the operation significantly. Whenever we are forced to carry out product manually or use a pallet jack, the job gets slowed down significantly, and over the course of a container this can add multiple hours to the job. Not to mention it also makes it a lot more labour intensive, which is something we always want to avoid to protect our staff from a health and safety, and work place satisfaction point of view.

Forklifts are great, but before anyone jumps on the forklift, they must have a current OSH certificate and F endorsement printed on their license (if the site is open to a public road). At MoreStaff we also make sure our newly ticketed drivers are under supervision at all times, or they have proved they can safety drive one before doing this autonomously.