Daveilift I understand your observations however the fact remains the YALE & HYSTER brands have significantly improved their market share particularly in the UK clearly a lot of that is with the Briggs influence, although from what I hear Forkway have gained some significant ground recently I see Warehouse & logistics mag have a large article & congratulations to them for their 50th year in business - They must be doing something right when our industry seems to be full of doom.

I believe the brands will be split as mentioned earlier with the Yale offering the smaller machines up to 16t along with the warehouse range and Hyster concentrating in the ports & large capacity market.

As always we will all talk about and around it for some time to come before the next big shake up!