Brighton North Member Sue Jones was closing down her business prior to a well-earned retirement where she found disposing of a stand-on forklift was not so easy.


Yes you can sell anything if you make it cheap enough but to get $15000, the market value for this quality of second hand forklift, Sue did not get any takers.
Rather than give someone in business a bargain they did not deserve Sue generously decided that she would rather donate it to a very worthy cause. That worthy cause was the Donation In Kind Store at Footscray.
DIK have been using the fork since July 2010 and have really got the best out of its capabilities.
Any store needs a forklift to handle pallets or heavy items for safety reasons but also to efficiently move goods around. The DIK Store is fortunate to now have more and more storage racking where Sue’s forklift has meant a lot of loose items can be palletised items and stored off the floor.
This has made items easier to access, better inventory control, safer handling and speedier dispatching.
Laurie Fisher who runs the store along with enthusiastic volunteers is a lot happier man these days.
What he wants now is more racking for more donations to make even better use of Sue’s most generous and unusual gift.



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