Raymond's 9800 Swing-Reach Truck defines the upper end of the manufacturer's turret truck lineup, designed for very-narrow-aisle (VNA) warehouses where palletized storage and case picking must be performed at racking heights approaching 15 meters. The machine offers a 2,500-pound capacity to nearly 50 feet of elevation, a 3,300-pound capacity to 30 feet, and a maximum elevated height exceeding 584 inches (14.8 meters) - dimensions that position it for the tallest high-bay warehouses in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and third-party logistics sectors.
The 9800's defining mechanical feature is the "Swing-Reach Turret Head" - a rotating fork carriage at the top of the mast that pivots the forks a full 180 degrees while the truck remains centered in the aisle. This allows the operator, elevated on the truck's platform alongside the forks, to place or retrieve loads from racks on either side of the aisle without repositioning the truck, and to simultaneously perform case picking from the elevated platform. Unlike conventional reach trucks that require 3-meter aisles, the 9800's turret-and-guidance architecture operates in aisles as narrow as 1.6 meters, dramatically increasing racking density for a given warehouse footprint.
Raymond's "Open View Mast" design maximizes the operator's sightlines through the mast at full elevation - a critical consideration when the operator is picking individual cases from racking at 12 to 15 meters, where visual accuracy directly determines productivity and pick accuracy. The truck's 48-volt electrical architecture supports multi-shift operation through battery-swap or lithium-ion configurations, and the truck's wire-guidance or rail-guidance aisle navigation systems automate centerline control, freeing the operator to focus entirely on load handling. Combined with Raymond's iWAREHOUSE fleet-management telematics, the 9800 positions itself as the productivity anchor of high-bay warehouses where every additional meter of racking height and every centimeter of aisle width directly translates into storage capacity and throughput.
