A leading online auction house has fully equipped its
main New South Wales warehouse with 35 pieces of
Toyota material handling equipment.
GraysOnline’s 30,000 square-metre warehouse at Homebush
in western Sydney handles 85 per cent of the company’s
warehoused products, with up to 35,000 individual stock
movements per week.
Toyota Material Handling’s wide product range meant it could
meet all GraysOnline’s equipment needs, thereby consolidating
forklift contracts from multiple sites.
The 35 units, all battery-electric, include Toyota 1.8-tonne
payload 8FBN18 counter-balance forklifts, Toyota three-tonne
payload 7FB30 forklifts, BT RRE reach forklifts, BT low-level
order pickers and BT Levio pallet trucks.
The last of the 35 new forklifts was commissioned at
Homebush during March.
GraysOnline Homebush warehouse manager Rick Jacobs said
special considerations for the material handling equipment
included compatibility with Australia Post equipment and the
versatility of the BT High Reach forklifts.
“It is vital that our warehouse equipment can operate with
Australia Post’s uniform loading devices,” he said.
“The high-reach forklifts had to be specified with low multi-
stage masts, so they could work under our mezzanine racking
and also reach the top pick heights in the seven-metre high
racking.”
Mr Jacobs said GraysOnline based the equipment purchase
decision on three key factors – state-of-the-art safety capability,
excellent service maintenance and the product range meeting
all the warehouse’s needs.
“The number of forklifts on site means TMHA’s service technicians
are here once a month for regular maintenance,” he said.
TMHA’s Sydney major accounts manager Michael Marks said
GraysOnline had been a Toyota forklift customer for the last
seven years, using a diverse range of equipment from hand
pallet trucks to four-wheel counter-balance forklifts.
The Grays auction house has a tradition reaching back more
than 100 years.
It moved into online auctions in 2000 and now sells more than
70 product categories, from IT goods and wine to automotive
and mining equipment.
Toyota Material Handling Australia is the factory owned national
distributor for the comprehensive range of Toyota, BT Lift Truck
and Raymond product, as well as Toyota’s leading-edge Huski
skid-steer loader range.
It can therefore meet material handling needs on a ‘one-stop
shop’ basis.
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