What does forklift downtime actually cost your operation?

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Most fleet operations don’t know what their forklift downtime actually costs. The number sits quietly outside the maintenance budget, distributed across a few unrelated line items: production targets missed, shipping commitments rescheduled, overtime to catch up, lost customer goodwill from late deliveries. None of those line items show up on a maintenance invoice. Most ops […]