Forkies.

As we know, the FLT can be our best mate and it is always a good idea to keep on their good side, but…

Pulled into a regular pick up today, spoke to the forkie who said I had to speak to someone in the wharehouse.
Wharehouse guys says ‘he’s just taking 1 pallet off that artic and then will be with you’.
50 minutes later i’m still waiting and wander into wharehouse and very politely ask if they have forgot about me. The reply?
‘sorry mate, no one wants to load you’.
‘why not’ I say.
’ i’ll have to get a manager’ wharehouse guys says.

About 5 minutes later I have 2 forkies ready to load me. I ask them what was the problem.

Turns out they have new forklifts, which are fitted with collision detection equipment which sends a email to the manager as soon as it registers a collision.
The problem is that if they lower the forks to quick/hit a bump in the yard to quick/brake to harsh/turn to quick/ram a pallet on, etc etc it sets the collision alarm off and they have all had warnings about it!
So now nobody wants to load/unload anybody!
So I asked 1 of the forkies if I had not come back in and asked if they had forgot about me, would I still be sitting there waiting and was met by a shrug of the shoulders.

It took 2 forkies 40 minutes to load 4 stacks of empty pallets!FFS!
Nearly 2 hours to get loaded from arrival to leaving, and i’m job and knock.

I did ask the forkie if someone had knocked a rack over in the wharehouse/dropped pallets/damaged goods and was thay why the collision system was introduced, but he no.

Won’t be long before other companies follow suit for sure.

Is there no end to the money some of these companies will ■■■■ up the wall on pointless tat…whch invariably doesn’t bloody work…it’s just the same with employing drivers, just pay well above the standard rates in the area and you can cherry pick from those who don’t need monitoring/spying equipment looking at and reporting on them 24/7 :unamused:

They have those collisions detection thingies at our place, but they go one step further, if it detects it shuts the truck down on the spot and you need an engineer card to restart it.

The problem is that the trucks work in one warehouse and charge in another. The yard is full of potholes and ruts. Come midnight our yard looks like mad max with flts strewn all over the place. It’s not unusual, this occurs every night. I have a suspicion that some of the drivers can’t be bothered with changing, so just bollock across the yard, leave the truck and go home.

Companies got really narked with paying for damage to fork trucks to the hire companies so the hire companies installed this equipment. Another H&S guy interfering. It’s to slow down the operators to work properly as they were trained to drive fork trucks.
I know it’s a total pain to be loaded by a slow fork truck driver but why oh why do you want to be loaded quickly if your paid by the hour?
So 2 fork truck to load 4 stacks of pallets is 40 minutes. So on a 24 stacks of pallets load is six stack an hour so that’s four hour to load a trailers so two trailers a day? Work it out!
Management will soon disable it when they realise how much they are loosing when, instead of loading two trailers an hour, it two trailers a day!
The fork truck drivers should just say “yeah brilliant idea” and get on with it. Same pay for loading 16 trailers over 8 hours or loading 2 nice and slowly over 8 hours!

beanie:
Companies got really narked with paying for damage to fork trucks to the hire companies so the hire companies installed this equipment. Another H&S guy interfering. It’s to slow down the operators to work properly as they were trained to drive fork trucks.
I know it’s a total pain to be loaded by a slow fork truck driver but why oh why do you want to be loaded quickly if your paid by the hour?
So 2 fork truck to load 4 stacks of pallets is 40 minutes. So on a 24 stacks of pallets load is six stack an hour so that’s four hour to load a trailers so two trailers a day? Work it out!
Management will soon disable it when they realise how much they are loosing when, instead of loading two trailers an hour, it two trailers a day!
The fork truck drivers should just say “yeah brilliant idea” and get on with it. Same pay for loading 16 trailers over 8 hours or loading 2 nice and slowly over 8 hours!

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^^^^^^^^^ this is spot on, management knows best, nod and shake, three bags full sir, forkies haven’t realized there getting paid to do less work . Once the depot manger see’s the que of trucks waiting, the elf"s n shafted manager will get a telling…

jbaz73:
They have those collisions detection thingies at our place, but they go one step further, if it detects it shuts the truck down on the spot and you need an engineer card to restart it.

The problem is that the trucks work in one warehouse and charge in another. The yard is full of potholes and ruts. Come midnight our yard looks like mad max with flts strewn all over the place. It’s not unusual, this occurs every night. I have a suspicion that some of the drivers can’t be bothered with changing, so just bollock across the yard, leave the truck and go home.

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

beanie:
Companies got really narked with paying for damage to fork trucks to the hire companies so the hire companies installed this equipment. Another H&S guy interfering. It’s to slow down the operators to work properly as they were trained to drive fork trucks.
I know it’s a total pain to be loaded by a slow fork truck driver but why oh why do you want to be loaded quickly if your paid by the hour?
So 2 fork truck to load 4 stacks of pallets is 40 minutes. So on a 24 stacks of pallets load is six stack an hour so that’s four hour to load a trailers so two trailers a day? Work it out!
Management will soon disable it when they realise how much they are loosing when, instead of loading two trailers an hour, it two trailers a day!
The fork truck drivers should just say “yeah brilliant idea” and get on with it. Same pay for loading 16 trailers over 8 hours or loading 2 nice and slowly over 8 hours!

That’s always been my way. Do what the boss/pointy shoes wants and when it all goes ■■■■ up, who’s it down to?