Toyota Forklifts & Reddy Ice

Announcers: Soft drinks, cereal, potato chips, pancake syrup. It’s all part of a day’s work at States Logistics. This third party distribution company operates 11 warehouses in Southern California and Arizona. This facility is in San Bernardino, California, and it is dedicated to distribution for a leading soft drink and snack food company. A relationship of 15 years and growing, thanks to States proven dependability and productivity. And partnering with States Logistics all that time, Toyota forklifts.

Ryan Donovan: In this distribution center, we’re handling a lot of their food products, food and beverage products. This is a 480,000 square foot facility, we’re running 24 hours a day, five days a week.

Announcers: States Logistics has been in this building for about three years now. Moving here allowed them to consolidate distribution for the soft drink company, and have ample room for growth. This is a high-velocity building, with most products handled as full pallet loads.

A fleet of 33 Toyota forklifts provide all of the material handling in this large building. These are Toyota’s core internal combustion, 5,000-pound capacity, counterbalanced, sit-down models, powered by propane. These IC models can operate around the clock, only needing to stop for an LP tank change.

Ryan Donovan: Yeah, we’ve been using Toyota lifts for many years. We find them to be very versatile, very little maintenance, very little problems with breakdowns and issues, comparatively priced, and our local dealer here is fantastic and gives excellent service.

Announcers: These trucks handle a wide range of products. From heavy bottles of water and athletic drinks, to lightweight cereals and breakfast bars. This portion of the distribution center is temperature controlled to keep juices and snack bars cooler. A large part of the work is loading and unloading of trailers. About 40 truckloads move through here daily. The majority of these products are taken to floor storage areas where the goods are stacked several layers high.

Many of these loads are not palletized, so a number of the forklifts are equipped with Cascade Mark 55 Push/Pull attachments, designed to handle slip sheets. Using this attachment eliminates the step of having to palletize products before storage.

Other loads that arrive on pallets find a temporary home in these racks. Five of the vehicles in the fleet have four-stage masts to reach upper levels. Toyota’s Active Mast Function Controller senses the load weight and tilt, and automatically makes adjustments to secure the load, even when the masts are at full height. This is just one of the many safety features found standard on Toyota forklifts.

Altogether, Toyota forklifts move about 4,000 loads daily in the San Bernardino facility. The quality of the machines, the timely planned maintenance, and superior ongoing service from Toyota and the local dealer, Southwest Toyota Lift, make sure that these busy trucks show up for work each and every day.

KristinWilliams: I think they’re great, and we always have somebody onsite whenever we have an issue with them. It’s really easy, I call my rep, or he calls me every morning to find out if there’s any issues.

Ryan Donovan: Very satisfied with Toyota. Both the quality of the product, and the quality of their service from the local dealership. Makes us a no-brainer choice that gotta use them.