Goscor Lift Truck Company (GLTC), part of the Goscor group of companies, and sole distributor in South Africa of some of the most famous brands in the industry including Crown, Doosan and Bendi has, since 1984, offered a world-class sales and support service in the logistics and warehousing industries.

With manufacturing facilities globally, Crown is the world leader in the manufacture of electric materials handling equipment. Catering to the ever-changing demands of warehousing, Crown has equipment to suite every conceivable warehouse application. Its range of products in South Africa include: hand-pallet trucks, powered forklifts, powered stackers, low-level and mid to high order pickers, rider pallet trucks, wave mobile ladders, reach trucks, counterbalanced trucks and more.
Crown is world famous for its superior design having won many of the most prestigious awards repeatedly over the years. This year alone, the new Crown GPC 3000 low-level order picker won no fewer than two international design awards including the prestigious iF ‘Design Oscar’.

Doosan (formerly Daewoo) is a world-class manufacturer of one of the finest selections of lift trucks. The company made world-wide headlines in the industry when it introduced its “brakes for life” system - an oil-cooled disc brake system, which, being totally enclosed, eliminates all outside contamination of any humid, abrasive or corrosive dust particles. The system significantly reduces operating costs and GLTC offers on it a 60-month, unlimited hours guarantee.

GLTC’s most recent initiative is Bendi, a revolutionary counterbalanced, articulating forklift, which can work in very narrow spaces. GLTC reports significant interest in this product, which is not surprising! The rising demand for narrower aisles as the cost of space spirals makes the Bendi, with its unique ability to articulate and operate in narrow spaces, perfect for the situation.

Even in widths of just 1.8m, the Bendi articulated forklift helps the operator work faster, safer and more accurately. Globally, Bendi users also report that racking damage is significantly less.

The Bendi’s ability to pick indoors and load outdoors with equal dexterity, precludes the requirement for two machines thus enhancing efficiency.  The typical reach truck requires aisles of 2.5 to 3m for storage and racking, but reach trucks typically have small, harder wheels and low ground clearance, making outdoor use impractical. The Bendi, because of its unique counterbalanced design and its ability to articulate, is able to handle a similar load to a common forklift truck and work in aisles that are much narrower and space saving.

Partnership is the key concept in GLTC’s success. Excellent and productive relations with its customers, principals and suppliers have enabled the company to show exceptional growth every year and become one of the leading suppliers in the materials handling industry.

Service and after-sales support requires fanatical dedication in this industry and GLTC has proven through the years that it is up there with the best in this sphere. Darryl Shafto GLTC MD says that much of his team’s success is attributable to the fact that from inception they have endeavoured to not only provide best practice industrial solutions but support them with the highest level of service.

Goscor Lift Truck Company operates from a head office in Johannesburg, with fully equipped branches, strategically situated in all major centres of South Africa.