Anyone got a forklift license?

[Banage]

I just was looking/applying online for a job and one of the questions was, "do you have a forklift license". Anyone got this? How did you get it?

[Wickedfinger]

Typically I believe theres a couple of classes of lift licenses. Basically its any OSHA approved lift training offered by a company.

[x.system]

You gotta go to forklift school :lol: Really I have no idea but some shops do them in house if its a big factory.

[jason 32]

yea i took a class you really need it to understand where they are coming from with the safty part- tipping ,too heavy of stuff, too high,moving fowards ,and backwards,using ramps,ect..... its easy and really helpfull!!
bad things can happen too easily by ( goofing aro und)
there are different kinds of lifts ,different motors fuels- propain, gas,diesel
good luck , dont worry youll get it lol

[Billy Golightly]

you have to have a license to drive a forklift? wtf never heard of that before.

[atvnut]

Yeah Ive got one.....The big companys do that to adhere to osha standards.....About 5 years ago I let my forktruck licence lapse, so I could drive tractor trailer but not unload myself....Ive since been renewed....

[darrel632]

I'm an instrutor and yes for due diligence under OSH you need one to operate a lift truck specific for the type of equipment used electric, counter balance, standup rough terrain etc not hard to get usually 8 hours and a little time and effort. the ticket is good for 3 years.

[Wickedfinger]

At Home Depot we have a 4hr computer based/4hr equipment based, OSHA approved training class. Before I was promoted, I was a district peer for lift training.

[IrvSLedman]

Yeah, I got one also. They just came and brought in a couple of Lifts, had us take a small quiz, and drive around a course, if you did it with out dropping the load, or hitting any of the cones, or what ever they got set up, and drive with care, you pass. Then once they gave me my license. I proceeded to do doughtnuts.. They can actually do them quite well lol. Any ways, not hard to pass, and they are an easy way to make some money. well good luck

[Banage]

thanks yall. I hope I get the job. I hate the one I got now. (dont we all)

[Kintore]

Yep I got mine, I drive the propane ones around all the time. They just gave me a 2 hour course and a 6month trial and now I got it.

[200xcellent]

i got mine through lowe's, as far as training i just watched a buddy and he signed off saying i could drive one but i never really had too.

[ATC crazy]

I got mine through Coca-Cola. Basically on the 3rd day after I started there, they threw me on one and let me go. I've got my license for propane powered singles, doubles, and electric ride-on pallet jacks.

[smokinwrench]

Yep I got one also.

Billy you just aren't cool till you go and pickup chicks on Saturday night with a forklift, but eh since you don't have a license you'll never be cool.

[Howdy]

Yep I got one also.

Billy you just aren't cool till you go and pickup chicks on Saturday night with a forklift, but eh since you don't have a license you'll never be cool.

LMAO!! That's funny!

Not only do I have a license, the company I work for makes Fork lifts ( about 65 or so a day right now ). http://www.crown.com/
Howdy

[okiedragster]

Not only do I have a license, the company I work for makes Fork lifts ( about 65 or so a day right now ). http://www.crown.com/
Howdy
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man i work on crown lifts everyday,rc's rr's pe's and i bet i worked on a few of the 65 a day you guys are puttin out...lol . i work for a 1 million square foot walmart dist. warehouse here in okla. so tell those guys when their puttin that stuff together to put a cheater pipe on some of that stuff so i aint gotta fix it later....lol :lol: :w00t:

[250rAL]

I've been driving forktrucks longer than trikes but I still don't have a license. The place I work now has been saying for years that they were going to license us but so far, nothing.

[ATC crazy]

LMAO!! That's funny!

Not only do I have a license, the company I work for makes Fork lifts ( about 65 or so a day right now ). http://www.crown.com/
Howdy


My dad has been working for Raymond for close to 22 years now. He doesnt like you guys :lol:

[3 weelin geezer]

you have to have a license to drive a forklift? wtf never heard of that before.
I have one too. Funny thing is they let me have at it with some thousands $$ test station that wasn't even strapped down. Woe is you if you drop it! They also teach you how to stuff as much stuff into a trailer so you don't need two to take the last 2 pallets you thought wouldn't go into the first and Woe is you if you hit the side of the trailer!! That driver won't be too happy if you bulge out his trailer and if you overload the floor,:lol: I hope you can figger out how to get that trailer off the forklift or get the forklift out of the hole you just put into its floor. :w00t: :lol: You'll never forget that sound a f/l makes as it drops 4-5 ft. CHOONK!! AW!!, #$&&@!%!!!:lol: :beer
Or when you have an unsupported load and you watch the driver swing too fast and the load just does a slow motion tip over and smash!!right on the concrete.:lol: :rolleyes: Especially if he boasts working with them for 12 years and eitherdrops a load or runs the forks into something stationary like the curb:lol: .

[MyMistress86R]

I was licensed via the military for 4000-10,000-50,000 pound rough terrain forklifts years ago. Currently I work for a rebar fabricator operating a 10k-lb lift-truck and have no active license for it.

[Wickedfinger]

Howdy, your Reach-Trucks SUCK!!!!!!!!!!. Raymond all the way baby!!!!!!. (loljk)

[troy]

I spent 4 years driving a 15 tonn lift king fork lift., with a perkins diesel engine and big balloon tires in the front and bus tires in the back. when the time came to get my license the boat shop i was working for kinda went under. so they said no point in my getting them...

[harvick2970]

I'm the forklift instructor where I work. We basically have a 2 part video that that I show then the rest is hands on. I usally just start them off by throwing several pallets on the floor and tell them to stack them back up. Then unstack them again.
After they get the hang of that I have them put the pallets in the racks at various heights. I usually give them a couple week before I give them a written test and then a driving test. Then they are officially licensed.

Howdy
Do you work at the Crown plant off of 75? We have a couple of the older Crown RR's at our place. We are wanting to replace them with new ones next year. Since we know now that you build them...Maybe not. J/K

okiedragster
Small world. I worked at Walmart DC 6006 for 7 years. All we had were the Crowns. They tried a couple Raymonds for a trial run but that as far as its got. We stuck with the Crowns.

[okiedragster]

okiedragster
Small world. I worked at Walmart DC 6006 for 7 years. All we had were the Crowns. They tried a couple Raymonds for a trial run but that as far as its got. We stuck with the Crowns.


yup, i been with this DC for 8 years now , small world,we use barret PE's and crown rr's and rc's and stock pickers. i kinda wish we would either get some new models or a different line, im gettin kinda burnt out on workin on the same ole equip. all the time...:drool:

[ATC crazy]

We have old Yale's at the Coke warehouse. They suck. There are 2-3 good ones, and the rest are just junk! We lose at least one a week due to mechanical failure. The 12,000 lb Cat doubles are doing pretty good though. One has no brakes, and the other one has a problem with the collapseable forks (hydraulic problem). The other warehouse (we have 2) gets all the good ones. We get stuck with the bad ones...

[Russell 350X]

I got my license for forklift at my vocational school. We took a test, and did some course outside with the lift.

[bigred1981]

where I work the license is required by the company through the company. It doesn't certify the employee anywhere else If they were to quit .