Heavy Vehicle Lifts are ideal for Repair Shops and Dealerships. Mechanics and technicians prefer these types of lifts over floor jacks, jack stand, creepers and pits. Heavy duty lifts increase productivity, profitability, ergonomics and safety, workers’ compensation costs and employee recruitment and retention. Vehicle lifts provide convenience and comfort allowing your techs to focus on the technical repairs of the vehicles when considering Heavy Duty lifts, you may want to think about facility layout, types, sizes and weights of vehicles to lift, types of services performed and your budget. There are seven main types of lifts: In ground lifts, Pit Lifts, Two-post surface lifts, Four post surface lifts, Parallelogram lifts, Mobile column lifts and Platform lifts.