Forklift brake service can be one of the more expensive services on your lift truck, but it doesn’t have to be. With experience, drum brakes on a forklift can be replaced is a reasonable time and you can avoid being charged a full day for the repair.
The problem with the bigger companies is they employ mostly younger techs that are still in their training years, and you pay the price.
Over the years, I have seen the average time charged to do a brake job is 8 hours. Sometimes the brake job is completed sooner than that and the company still sends you and bill for the full 8 hours. This is the company padding time and actually happens on almost every job.
Ther is time for travel between customers that needs to be covered, so there will always be a little extra time on each job, but these forklift companies treat each job as flat rate, and the employee gets paid their time on the job.
Accelerated Equipment Service does not pad the time. In fact, if we do your preventive maintenance, we don’t charge a service call. We have saved many businesses hundreds of dollars on brake jobs.