I drive a flt and have done for years. These trucks don't run you over they rip you to pieces. Speed is important but precision and the safety of everyone around you is the only thing that matters
Exactly. However good this guy is, the speed he's going is too much! It doesn't take much for an accident to occur. I wasn't impressed. I was a bit appalled by almost the carelessness of his driving. Not good.
Idk I’m guessing ur over 40. Everybody over 40 drive safe but slow as fuck. Nobody likes em lol, but I like working with em cause nobody expect much time wise
un-safe driver, driving way too fast, banging the freight around, not looking both ways backing out of the trailer, It is very easy to floor load a trailer, move a long folks nothing to see here.
Never saw him banging freight around, put the time stamp from the video on a comment showing where that happened, and he doesnt look unsafe if these guys all work together and know each others movements, which it looks like they do, then hes not being unsafe.
I been a forklift operator for about over 10 years and have work fast amazing operators. But like I always tell the young guys I rather be safe than sorry.
@@zlavexiuz6325 people have to walk in an active dock area all the time. Its dumb shit like that that ends up killing people just to move a few extra units. Been doing it for 10 years and there are hundreds of dumb shits like you saying the same thing until they get fired for crashing into eachother because you just couldnt slow down and take the extra 3 seconds
When a crew gets to a certain point of experience working together horns are not a nessesity because just hearing alone will let a driver know how to dance in the ballet of forklifts.
I'm was a yard manager at the number one building material company here in Tucson az. I unloaded 8 to 12 trucks of drywall 4 by 12 feet 1inch thick. 58ft long steel beams to build the new Az stadium. trucks full of mud, insulation, ceiling tile, All while loading and unloading our trucks with every kind of building material imaginable. I've loaded and unloaded all kinds of material all in the fuckin rain, cold , and extreme fuckin heat here in az..I've never had an accident where I hurt someone or cost anyone money. Ok fuck one time a pallet of stucco paint .. but that's it.(la) I've earned my strips .. I'll take finesse and safety over recklessness any day. Being fast on a lift is knowing when to be fast without sacrificing safety.
The number one , in not just Tucson, but all of Arizona, it is a tremendous company and they do a fantastic job.... anything to the contrary is fake news...
The guy might be a good forklift driver but in that video all he showed is how sloppy and pointlessly fast he could be. A good fork lift driver is accurate quick but has grace as well. No spinning tires or sharp turns. It's calculated and executed professionally. I'm sure that guy has had an accident or 5 in his career. It's like a kid with a new bike that thinks he's the fastest awesomest kid in the world.... Reason for my comment is because I see guys doing that shit at work and it makes me laugh when I see a whole pallet of beans spill and hit the ground. So I guess this a thanks as a reminder of what not to do👊
@@MetalTeamster no it’s not freight it’s someone’s serious injury or death. This isn’t something you play around with he needs to be looking back and honking his horn as well as be fast with cation rather than carelessly picking a pallet up and dropping it aggressively osha comes and sees that he’s done for
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i used to do even crazier shit than this, i miss this so much. The guys alright, i used to be like that too although i was a little skittish and careful in reverse, but i was full steam ahead going forward. All sorts of impressive looking shit is possible on those, like if youre going into a pallet at an angle you can kinda hit the corner of it to straighten it out, or just slam into it as you're picking it up which this guy did. I used to do these sort of burnouts where you'd be going fast in one direction and then throw it the other way without taking off the gas, that was actually really useful sometimes for maneuvering at times when you're zipping around like that. Though the forklifts we had had much bigger front wheels and the whole thing was heavier in general that these ones, so maybe doing that could tip it forward on these smaller ones. You can also do these weird tilts and and put your forks right under a shelf to get into tight ish aisles, although taking the pallet down when you do that is tougher and picking it up lol. I even used to pick up stupid shit like bottles and set them back down, or brooms or garbage cans. Another thing, esp useful for those odd things is you can tilt the forks down so theyre scraping the ground like a razor blade, lets you pick up things like a spatula. To get them off you kinda gotta reverse super fast to let it slide off. To those of you complaining about osha violations or whatever the fuck, you have to understand, theres an art to using forklifts fast, or picking up things its not intended to. The second you start to do EVERYTHING at a snails pace is where you let this art become a chore. You need to be alert, attentive, know exactly what you are doing and know when something is safe to do and when its not. Not dogmatically like always following every rule, but when it actually makes sense. You need to understand where everyone is before you do anything, know what any other forklifts are doing, where they are, the route theyre probably about to take, and not do something insane when someones close or in your way. Dont fuck around with shelving ever, but especially if others are near it. And NEVER do anything super crazy when you're carrying a load. Thats a good way to tip the load over or even the whole forklift. Like i said, you just be smart about things. This guy here doesnt beep when in reverse, big no no. Also want to mention i only usually dealt with pallets of bagged mulch or other sturdy things i could bang around a little. Be smart with what you're moving too. And try no to break the skid To those of you out there who drive or have driven forklifts like a mad lad and have always been careful about it, havent made a significant accident becuase you're smart about what you do and how you do it, keep up the art.
yeah no one read a word after that first sentence. know why? because people dont give af what you have to say. we all know you dont know what youre doing. thanks for showing us that
yeah no one read a word after that first sentence. know why? because people dont give af what you have to say. we all know you dont know what youre doing. thanks for showing us that
@@Hester_prynne clearly you cared enough about what you didn't read to comment about it lol. Not to say I condone operating a forklift as dangerously as in the video (because I don't) but cognitive dissonance is never your friend when it comes to debating anything
Its shows that safety is nothing for those guys,if you have a good skill in driving a forklift you will always remember the basic for your safety and also your cargo
I'm not better in terms of speed, but i can 100% guarantee that i will cause less accidents and less broken cargo in my career then he will, he's sloppy and careless.
Yeah, really. This isn't really all that impressive. Sometimes those white wood pallets are hard to grab from the side. That's like maybe the most difficult thing about this.
Been a receiver at a loblaws superstore for a year unloading 16 pallets today in 25 mins that putting them all away to not just taking them off the truck and dropping them right there
Seen a lot of hate comments...But I tell you this... What I just seen is Ballet On the Forks!! and this is only achievable when the "Peds" stay the F out of the way... No Need for horns..Mmmnnk? it's about Timing and Knowing EXACTLY when Buddy is Going to be Coming out of that Trailer or coming down mainstreet with a load. I did this with 2 other Guys on lifts....and the syncronicity is Amazing. 16 Yr Forklift op and Punching that clock for 21 yrs.
Forklifts really not difficult who is the peds!!!! If you mean drivers I would never trust a flt driver to load a trailer correctly...... And before you start whining we can do the job.......... 😢😢😢
he rushed in too quickly taking the others guy right of way. Because of that he had to drive backwards. Better as this "dynamic" driving is slow but steady and safe
Forklift driver for r&l here. Not only is he not all that great, but he has very little regard for the safety of those around him. I wouldn't want to share a dock with him
There's 2 places that I service forklifts at. 1 place, maybe a quarter of their operators are this good. But all of them will get you dizzy. Another place has 1 driver and likely like this guy, wears tires down like a madman. This 1 driver has the forklift floored pretty much before he turns the key.
There's a couple guys at my warehouse that will blast through it on their forklifts at supersonic speed (12 mph) at all times no matter what. I just make sure I keep my eyes and ears open. I'm a decently quick operator myself. I love operating those Toyota forklifts.
I am not the fastest forklifter. But I am almost the only one in my company with no damage. And that’s were people look up to. Better be a little slower than others than just ramming every thing to be a minute faster.
Everyone saying how unsafe it is obviously never drove a forklift for their job ever. They train you for "safety" but once you're trained all they care about is how fast you can fire pallets on and off a truck. If you drove like they show you in the training videos it would take three guys to do the same work they expect from one in the span of a shift
Lots of safety related comments here, but the truth is that if he were driving like that where I worked he'd be too slow. No seriously. And no, no one's died or had a work related forklift injury in the 3 years I've worked there.
don't ever work for a company that allows a total neglect for safety... death won't pay the bills.. Quite honestly I'd report them without hesitation...
That's very simple, use some deck tracks and fully cube out a trailer. We can load 20k in them 28 foot trailer with 20+ bills on it. Come on over to Old dominion and we'll show y'all how to forklift and work around 200 workers at the same time.
20k at 20+ bills LMMFAO is very easy to do, Try 30-30+ bills on a 28ft trailer with drop racks with max cubage+weight. Myself as well as my co workewrs do it daily at our terminal, if thats the best Old Dominion can do then they do a good job hiring noobs lol.
How many forklift drivers think they should be recorded cause of how much more fluent you are at operating.. If he’s a magician.. I must be Merlin bitch. I’m a fuckin wizard 😂
Unfortunately one of the places I worked at was really I mean super osha strict they damn made sure you follow the book driving the forklift… unfortunately you can’t work fast or you would get written up. I get safety is important and I agree, but holy shit I’ve never worked any slower in my entire life, I like to work fast especially with a forklift…
I probably would've gotten fired 😂 We drive super fast on the forklifts at my workplace, then again when you have to get from dock door 5 to door 38, you have to be fast.
@@ElectronicsForFun Lol yes i know the system very well, The lifts at my job have it, its a great system yet same time its very annoying as well, but i guess when it comes to someones life i rather be annoyed with it then take a life or lose mine. Terll you what tho like at my job when youre lifting over 7,000 lbs of weight man does ther system come in handy lol. Ive had about 9,000 lbs about 6 ft in the air and depended on the system to keep the lift on its wheels. People think its nothing but even at 5,000lbs when you get that kinda weight in air its no joke you had better know what the hell you are doing and be spot on with every move.
@@ColdVenom159 we use CAT forklifts and they're great because of how simple they but at the same time they aren't stupid proof. If you fuck around with one these forklifts you'll kill somebody. Our big one was not configured properly. The weights on it are too small and the tires are not rated for the work load it's under. It's only used on asphalt and concrete but for some reason they put dirt tires on it. They are really spongy and have an agressive bite to them and on hard ground those tires are useless. We double stack concrete and 2 pallets of concrete is almost 7,000 pounds so it's well with in spec on this truck which is rated for 10k. But since it wasn't configured right it won't do double stacked concrete. The back wheels just come off the ground and it can't lift it. That thing is not at all stable.
Must be nice to have all your shit pre wrapped so it don't make a mess when you drive the lift recklessly, we use forklifts with squeezer paddles and haul huge stacks of wobbly truck tires into trucks
It's normal. I can beat this forklift driver. I remember times when truck drivers recording videos of how I load electronic equipment. 15 minutes 34 pallets. Anyway respect for skills
