ArcBest just rolled out a line of fully automated electric forklifts and reach trucks for use in its customers’ distribution centers and manufacturing facilities — and if they get their way, struggling to find those “forklift certified” operators will be a thing of the past.
Branded as “Vaux Smart Autonomy,” the new suite of electric forklifts and trucks builds on ArcBest’s award-winning Vaux Freight Movement System, which enables the company’s AMR line of electric forklifts to operate in autonomous, remote, or manual modes.
ArcBest says its forklifts can use advanced software, sensors and cameras to safely navigate a busy warehouse, detect and identify pallets and racking systems, and perform complicated tasks like loading and unloading, moving objects around the site, and stacking pallets. With some added options, the forklifts can use…