In 1963, Jack Gorman started a small forklift repair company called United Lift Truck. He was dedicated to offering his customers high quality service.

United Lift Truck added rental trucks, outside service vehicles along with delivery trucks to better serve this growing customer base.

Recognized as a premier service organization this family owned forklift company continued it's total commitment to offer customers the highest level of service.

Becoming Hyster's exclusive dealer in 1990 for the Chicago metro area and northwest Indiana, United Lift Truck has enjoyed exponential growth in all areas.

Let us share our mission with all:

MISSION STATEMENT
The basic goal and core value of UNITED LIFT TRUCK, is a commitment to quality products and exceeding customer needs through extraordinary customer service along with a dedicated vision for the future.

The HYSTER company story:

"Starting a new business is never easy. In 1929, it was harder than usual." -Ernest Swigert, Founder of Hyster Company.

Just before the Depression began in 1929, a small machinery company was established on a back lot in Portland, Oregon.

It didn't make lift trucks --- The term "lift truck" didn't even exist then. But the machines it did make soon earned a reputation for being rugged and tough, able to take the rigorous punishment of the region's logging industry.

One of those products was a winch, or hoist, called a "Hyster." It was called that because a foreman in the woods or on a loading platform would wait for the load to be engaged, then tell the winch operator to "Hoist'er". That sturdy winch proved to be only the first of many reliable material handling ideas to come.

Times were rough those first few years. Luckily, the company's leadership was up to the challenge. Its president, a young Harvard-educated metallurgist named Ernest G. Swigert, believed the company's future depended ultimately on the value built into its products. He made it his job to make sure it was there.

He also saw that the young company searched vigorously for new product ideas, suited to its customers' needs. Besides winches, it developed tractor-drawn logging arches to move huge logs more efficiently, and straddle-type lumber carriers.

By 1934, experiments were underway with unusual-looking trucks fitted with lifting forks at the front. Before long, the young company would emerging from its economic uncertainty and entering the dawn of the lift truck age.