{"id":776,"date":"2020-03-21T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/?p=776"},"modified":"2023-02-27T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:18:31","slug":"have-you-been-sold-a-dodgy-forklift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/2020\/03\/21\/have-you-been-sold-a-dodgy-forklift\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold a dodgy forklift?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been sold a dodgy forklift?<\/p>\n<h2>The Fork Truck Watchdog<\/h2>\n<div id=\"copy\">\n<p>Have you been sold a forklift that is not how it was described? The Fork Truck watchdog initiative allows customers to report dishonest dealers and make the industry safer.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys and rogue traders have long been\u00a0considered part and parcel hazards\u00a0of purchasing materials handling equipment. However, the Fork Lift Truck Association is determined to change\u00a0this with the\u00a0<strong>Fork Truck Watchdog<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; a system for reporting dishonest dealers.<\/p>\n<p>What may appear to be several isolated cases could, in fact, be\u00a0the same dodgy dealer operating in different parts of the UK,\u00a0swindling multiple customers. Crucially, the\u00a0<strong>Fork Truck Watchdog<\/strong>\u2019s joined-up\u00a0<strong><em>national<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>approach allows the full weight of evidence to be brought to bear.<\/p>\n<p>By identifying and eliminating\u00a0sellers operating below the high standards of safety and integrity demanded by the industry, the FLTA hopes to protect purchasers of new and used fork trucks.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve recently bought a truck that isn\u2019t as\u00a0described, is unsafe, unfit for purpose, or if you are embroiled in a contract dispute, report it now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been sold a dodgy forklift? The Fork Truck Watchdog Have you been sold a forklift that is not how it was described? The Fork Truck watchdog initiative allows customers to report dishonest dealers and make the industry safer. Cowboys and rogue traders have long been\u00a0considered part and parcel hazards\u00a0of purchasing materials handling equipment. However, the Fork Lift Truck Association is determined to change\u00a0this with the\u00a0Fork Truck Watchdog\u00a0&#8211; a system for reporting dishonest dealers. What may appear to be several isolated cases could, in fact, be\u00a0the same dodgy dealer operating in different parts of the UK,\u00a0swindling multiple customers. Crucially, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listerlifttrucks.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}