 The Clark 1943 forklift. |
A TVH Group dispatcher got a surprise when he answered a call to repair a forklift's leaking water pump.
Martin Ovaere, 44, who has been head of TVH's service & repair division for more than 15 years, had not expected to see a Clark 1943 forklift.
"Never in the history of TVH has such an old truck been repaired ... a unique event," he said.
The TVH team succeeded in repairing the aged forklift, which has a six cylinder engine and a three-ton capacity.
The truck belonged to a company selling fertilisers to local farmers.
TVH's service & repair division currently has 120 employees. Fifty technicians are based in Waregem's workshops in Belgium and 44 are on-the-road technicians.
On average, they repair more than 150 forklifts, scissor lifts and cherry pickers each day.