Terminal-grade compliance for heavy-lift fleets.
Tidal peaks, contractor gangs and the heaviest loads in the forklift world. Terminals need authorisation and capacity discipline enforced by the system, not the noticeboard.
What goes wrong in ports & freight terminals
Contractors on your equipment
Stevedoring gangs and contractor operators come and go with the vessel schedule. Verbal assurance about tickets isn't authorisation.
Heavy lifts near capacity
Terminal lifts routinely run close to rated capacity. A guess at the load weight is a tip-over waiting for a soft patch of quay.
Salt air eats steel
Forks, chains and hydraulics corrode faster within sight of the sea. Quarterly inspections miss what daily eyes would catch.
Asset360 on the ground
The contractor gang on nights
The situation
A vessel arrives late; a contractor gang works the night tide using terminal trucks. Who was authorised to drive what is anyone's guess by morning.
With Asset360
Every contractor operator has a record with licence categories on file. PIN authorisation decides who drives what — and the night's checks show exactly who operated which truck, when.
The 11-tonne coil and the 12-tonne truck
The situation
A near-capacity lift gets waved through on experience. The margin between fine and tip-over is the accuracy of somebody's guess.
With Asset360
The pre-job check asks for the load weight against the truck's rated capacity — a go/no-go decision recorded before the lift, with attachment deductions accounted for.
Corrosion caught by daily eyes
The situation
Fork-heel wear and chain corrosion accelerate in salt air, surfacing as thorough-examination failures and unplanned downtime.
With Asset360
Daily advisory items with photos build a deterioration trail per truck. Maintenance schedules replacements from the trend — before the examiner or the failure does it for them.
Ports & freight terminals: common questions
Can contractor operators use Asset360 without accounts?
Contractors get operator records like anyone else — accreditation, categories, expiry — and authenticate by PIN at the truck. You control exactly which trucks each contractor is authorised for.
Does the pre-job check handle attachments?
Yes. The pre-job flow covers attachment selection and load-vs-rated-capacity as a go/no-go decision, recorded with the job. Capacity discipline becomes a logged decision rather than a judgement call.
What about equipment that works vessel-side in bad weather?
Checks run on any phone, so they happen at the machine wherever it is. Weatherproof QR labels handle the environment, and kiosk mode covers shared equipment at the crib room.
General guidance, not legal advice. See our plain-English guides to PUWER, LOLER and the daily forklift check.
See it on your own fleet.
A 20-minute demo set up with your trucks — including the checks and evidence that matter in ports & freight terminals.