Anyone got a forklift license?

**okiedragster** · 10-24-2006, 09:14 AM

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

**250rAL** · 10-24-2006, 09:33 AM

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** · 10-24-2006, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Howdy

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

**3 weelin geezer** · 10-25-2006, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by Billy Golightly

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,

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.

You'll never forget that sound a f/l makes as it drops 4-5 ft. CHOONK!! AW!!, #$&&@!%!!!

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.

Especially if he boasts working with them for 12 years and eitherdrops a load or runs the forks into something stationary like the curb

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**MyMistress86R** · 10-25-2006, 05:18 PM

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** · 10-25-2006, 07:15 PM

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

**troy** · 10-25-2006, 10:36 PM

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** · 10-25-2006, 11:57 PM

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** · 10-26-2006, 01:16 PM

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...

**ATC crazy** · 10-26-2006, 11:44 PM

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** · 10-27-2006, 10:54 AM

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

**bigred1981** · 10-28-2006, 11:04 PM

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 .

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