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• Make sure that the vehicle is properly centered and balanced on the lift. Some vehicles have different centers of gravity. Having an imbalanced vehicle means that the vehicle can be subject to tipping. • Remember that the work a technician is doing can involve both the addition and removal of heavy parts to a vehicle while in the air. Using high reach vehicle support stands is important. Never lower a vehicle onto vehicle support stands. Keep Track of Your Lifts Keeping daily, weekly and yearly track of your lifts, especially in an environment with more than a few lifts, can be difficult. Many times, it’s also tough for a manager or foreman to know which lifts are in most need of repair or replacement. Using a Lift Management System can help. A Lift Management System can help you keep track of your lifts’ maintenance and inspection status. It serves as a general dashboard to view in real time the status of all lifts. Some features of a lift management system to look for include: • Lift Information: Make sure that the system you choose not only has the manufacturer and model, but also the serial number, location and bay designation of your current lifts. • Feature-rich product creation: While manufacturer and model are a baseline for adding lifts to a lift management system, there are many other dimensions that are important to keep track of, including inspection status, ALI-Certification, and service history. • Product Pages: Make sure each of your lifts has its own, dedicated product page. These product pages allow for direct ordering of lift service, replacement, inspection, and tabs for service history. • Document Storage: Make sure your Lift Management System has a place to upload important additional documents and pictures, including pictures of lifts, inspection reports and operation manuals. Make sure that the document storage is cloud-based, safe and reliable. Lift Management Systems also offer some free data storage. • Security: This information belongs to you and is sensitive information . In order to guard your information, make sure that your lift management system has the following security measures in place: sitewide security certificate (HTTPS protocol), global redirect, captcha protection, and automatic, unique serialization of products . The automatic serialization of products uses 16-bit, alphanumeric end-to-end encryption. For example, you want to make sure that your lifts aren’t showing up on a Google Search or cannot be guessed by a user.

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Provided by, Paul Stern, ALI Certified Inspector and founder of LIFTNOW, which sells leading lines of automotive equipment to car dealerships in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. For more information, contact 1-800-LIFTNOW or info@liftnow.com

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