Editor Allan Leibowitz comments on the news of the week

The growth of the Forkliftaction.com community continues to exceed expectations, with more materials handling professionals involving themselves in this unique initiative. The latest statistics for August have just been released, and show that 792,295 hits and 45,235 page views were registered on the website by 9,570 unique visitors! Two hundred and eighty-six professionals subscribed to our weekly newsletter, averaging nine new members a day. Thankyou for your continued support. Forkliftaction.com is preparing for more sweeping changes to the amount and variety of content available on the website, with a global business directory, stolen equipment register and a used equipment classifieds section to be added in coming months. Welcome to members who have registered in the past week, including those from the following companies: Liftruck.com in Canada, Baltic Control in Denmark, BT Rolatruc in the United Kingdom, Cascade Corporation in Australia, Barloworld Handling in the USA, Bridgestone Firestone Europe in Belgium and Alphaquip in Brazil.