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The electric ones are cool as fuck, you can sit on the front and drive them like a car, I used to start at midnight at my retail job, our one was my personal vehicle around the store all night untill the miserable fun police came in to tell me it's not safe.
Once again proving your name wrong, if I had any self awareness I’d probably worry how often I agree with someone named dumbass
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 I assume they've all been replaced by either automation or just single electric ones since.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!