I was 16 on my first summer job in a grocery store warehouse, and the day one of the adults tasked me to start driving the pallets around, two at a time with the long electric one, after putting pallets together for days, felt like the best day of my life.
I kept doing that job for every day forward voluntarily, while no one else would. Until the miserable fun police came and assigned me to a shift in the walk in cooler/freezer section in the basement. Sure, all the Neapolitan and yogurts I could stomach, but I also promptly got a cold that floored me for days.
They are still being made and used. At a job I had 7 years ago they had two of them. Pretty handy when you need to fill a truck with pallets. I did not need a license.
You need some practice though, I may have fallen off one or two times in a corner.
One day a truck driver borrowed it and managed to park the whole back into another pallet. Fun machines.
At my current job we have ones for single pallets, but they can go 4 meter high. I love it, very flexible and small, but you can still put pallets away pretty high.
I worked a warehouse a few years ago that had ~15 of the two pallet long ride-on pallet jacks and one that could carry three pallets.
Each of the employees picking orders would drive them around, paletizing a whole order then dropping it off in a staging area to be wrapped and loaded on a truck later that night.
You’d often have item bays waiting to be replenished before you could complete picking an order, so we used ride-ons that could carry two pallets allowing you to move on to a second order while you waited on the first.
I was 16 on my first summer job in a grocery store warehouse, and the day one of the adults tasked me to start driving the pallets around, two at a time with the long electric one, after putting pallets together for days, felt like the best day of my life.
I kept doing that job for every day forward voluntarily, while no one else would. Until the miserable fun police came and assigned me to a shift in the walk in cooler/freezer section in the basement. Sure, all the Neapolitan and yogurts I could stomach, but I also promptly got a cold that floored me for days.
Fuck you, Steve.
dont you need a license/cert to drive one?
Could be. It’s not a fork lift though, and was completely electric. Kind of like this but in yellow, for moving two pallets at the same time:
This was mid to late 90s though in Hungary. I assume they’ve all been replaced by either automation or just single electric ones since.
They are still being made and used. At a job I had 7 years ago they had two of them. Pretty handy when you need to fill a truck with pallets. I did not need a license.
You need some practice though, I may have fallen off one or two times in a corner. One day a truck driver borrowed it and managed to park the whole back into another pallet. Fun machines.
At my current job we have ones for single pallets, but they can go 4 meter high. I love it, very flexible and small, but you can still put pallets away pretty high.
I worked a warehouse a few years ago that had ~15 of the two pallet long ride-on pallet jacks and one that could carry three pallets.
Each of the employees picking orders would drive them around, paletizing a whole order then dropping it off in a staging area to be wrapped and loaded on a truck later that night.
You’d often have item bays waiting to be replenished before you could complete picking an order, so we used ride-ons that could carry two pallets allowing you to move on to a second order while you waited on the first.
Isn’t that a fork lift of it can lift 4m high?
Nope. It’s basically this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AOjauGdi1E
Our version has a plate behind so you can stand on that and drive the thing around.
yeah, probably certs weren’t needed!