Toyota bares new lift truck’s safety, ergonomic features

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A, Inc. (TMHU) marked its 20th anniversary with the unveiling of its new 8-Series lift truck, a four-wheel electrical truck with enhanced safety features to help reduce the likelihood of an overturn or tip-over, a leading cause of lift-truck injuries and fatalities.

Featuring Toyota’s System of Active Stability (SAS) technology, the new 8-Series lift truck uses sensors that sense potential instability of the lift truck and feeds information into an electronic controller, which in turn determines what actions are required to make the truck more stable, explained Martin Boyd, vice-president of product planning and marketing at TMHU.

Toyota has been integrating its SAS system into all of its lift truck products since the technology was introduced in 1999, Boyd said, describing this proprietary safety technology as “arguably the world’s most innovative lift truck safety enhancement system available on the market today.”

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