TMHE Electric Forklift Trucks Endorsed by TNT

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Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE) customers for 14 years, TNT Duiven are impressed with the award-winning forklift solutions TMHE created for them.

Mjölby, Sweden, February 3, 2012 - (PressReleasePoint) -TNT Duiven, the leading European provider of express delivery services, admires Toyota counterbalance trucks supplied by Toyota Material Handling Europe (TMHE). In collaboration with TMHE for 14 years, TNT Duiven relies on TMHE’s award-winning electric forklifts to undertake material handling operations and reduce costly repair bills at their busy Netherlands site.

TNT is one of the world’s leading providers of express delivery servi­ces. Its site in Duiven, Netherlands is the main international road hub for the whole of Europe, with a huge 150,000-square-metre sorting space that collectively handles over 6.3 mil­lion kilograms of goods per week.
 
Due to TNT Duiven’s particularly intense and crowded work environ­ment, its forklift trucks often sustain shocks, resulting in expensive truck re­pairs, loss of productivity and occa­sional damages to goods. A Toyota customer since 1998, when TNT Dui­ven set about upgrading its fleet of forklifts last year, the top decision makers placed “reduce fleet damages costs and in­crease productivity” at the very top of their list of priorities.
 
“We are very open and honest with each other,” says Harry Bruns, Cor­porate Manager of TNT International Road Hub, of his relationship with Toyota Material Handling Nether­lands. “We talk to each other, solve problems together and learn from each other.”
 
A demanding environment calls for a demanding solution
After lengthy discussions to deter­mine TNT Duiven’s evolving material handling requi­rements, Toyota Material Handling Netherlands developed a complete forklift fleet solution designed to meet TNT Duiven’s specific needs. Toyota’s European and Japan-based Product Planning teams also visited TNT Dui­ven as part of an extensive European market survey to help ensure that its new Toyota Traigo 48 electric forklift range would meet the material handling needs of European customers, including TNT.
 
Ralph Cox, Commercial Director at Toyota Material Handling Nether­lands, who helped lead the TNT pro­ject says: “Together we looked at TNT Duiven’s material handling needs and worked out a complete solution: the brand new Toyota Traigo 48 spe­cified to their exact requirements, fleet management with Toyota I_Site, forklift servicing, battery charging and much more.”
 
In April 2009, TNT Duiven took deli­very of 82 brand new 1.6-ton 3-whe­el Toyota Traigo 48 electric forklifts. Compact yet powerful, the Toyota Traigo 48 features a robust new chassis, wrap-around counterweight design, and a new heavy duty bat­tery hood for added durability in in­tense material handling operations like TNT, where the trucks are expected to perform for a marathon 3,000 hours a year. These design improvements and attention to detail paid off when the all-new Toyota Traigo 48 received the inter­nationally recognised iF Product De­sign Award in 2009.
 
Unique active safety system
In addition the new Toyota Traigo 48 is equipped with the Toyota System of Active Stability (SAS). The world’s only integrated active safety system for forklifts, Toyota SAS offers a host of operator friendly features desig­ned to improve the material handling capabili­ties of both truck and driver, resulting in better safety and increased pro­ductivity.