Fork Lift Truck Course

[crazymotorbik...]

Hey,
My company has finally got round to putting me on an FLT training course. I'm looking forward to it but to be honest I'm sh*t scared I'll fail the test.
Anyone got any words of advice? How hard is an FLT test?

Cheers,
Shaun R.

[Handsome]

Which truck ?...

You'll do the required check list, brakes/tyres/cables etc, then controls, you'll do some figure of eight work, move stacks of pallets, then a chiqane, then move some pallets around in the racking, you'll be scored when it comes to the test, it's really a piece of piss...
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[crazymotorbik...]

Hey,
its counter balance and reach truck i do believe.
Cheers,
Shaun R.

[Handsome]

As above then, Counter will be outside, Reach inside, the only thing to watch with a Reach is the steering's backwards, left goes right, right goes left, easy enough though, you'll be fine...
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[kelvyn]

From never driving one to passing my reach, flexi and ncounter in 3 or 4 days last Christmas!

Only one guy on the course stuggled with the steering and that was on the reach

[ZebraDriver]

Unless you are completely hopeless you will pass. Your company is paying the forklift instructor, he doesnt want to fail you as he won't get any more business out of your company if he starts failing people.

The only person I saw fail was a storeman at a company I worked for, he WAS hopeless and managed to drop a full pack of MDF during his test.

ZD

[ZebraDriver]

Unless you are completely hopeless you will pass. Your company is paying the forklift instructor, he doesnt want to fail you as he won't get any more business out of your company if he starts failing people.

The only person I saw fail was a storeman at a company I worked for, he WAS hopeless and managed to drop a full pack of MDF during his test.

ZD

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This video contains everything you could possibly need to know about the difficult world of forklift truck driving...

[The Artist]

[hellbound]

Look behind you.....lots!


My instructor kept sneaking in and placing pallets behind the fork lift to all the trainees that didn't look behind them before reversing..

One guy kept going and destroyed the pallet.
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[McFlufferson]

Ah yeah. The dudes that run the courses want you to pass. They will make it easy for you. The only thing that can't practically give is your observation. If you screw that up, they haven't much choice.
Just like a bike. Look before moving EVERY. TIME. The biggest biggy is look before you get out.
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[Dsouza9]

Thanks for information. Do you have any idea about the best selling store for second hand forklifts. I would be glad to have recommendations. Thanks in advance

[bugeye_bob]

Listen to the instructor and you will be fine,
its remembering to bip your horn before reversing etc that will catch you out,
and when asked dont call the knob on the steering wheel a Brother, the instructor doesnt find it funny.

[Nexus Icon]

I passed my FLT tests a few years ago despite the test being the first time I'd ever sat in a fork lift truck, let alone driven one. I only took it because one of the guys booked for a test that day was off sick and we didn't want to waste the spot. I was actually a designer in the office and never actually drove a FLT for them after that day either.

Seriously, you'd have to be a danger to the rest of the world to fail. It's a piece of piss.
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[The Artist]

2011 thread....

[Nexus Icon]

God damn.
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[janner_10]

Wonder if he passed
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[crazymotorbik...]

Hey,
Passed. I believe it maybe impossible to fail...unless you drop a pallet on the instructor!

In 2 years i have-

-Unloaded 100's possibly 1000's of wagons
-Took a rather large door off its hinges
-And dropped and bent a new Propellor......oops.

Cheers,
Shaun.

[gavcarter]

[andyscooter]

anyone else manage to drive one down a flight of steps
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