Well, it’s all about DROPPING hints as opposed to clangers.
■■■■ happens, no one died, the children were ok. put it down to experience as many others will have.
only 1 I had topple was the same as above the co-op decided bottles of wine went nicely on top of crisps all wrapped so I couldn’t see dropped onto the taillift and bang over she goes.
Surely a one ton pallet is something that shouldn’t be using a pallet truck for? Ours have a 1t limit.
The tail lift will have a sticker outlining the safe working loads. If you exceed those, it is your responsibility if a pallet falls off. If the tail lift gave way under the weight of the pallet, there is either a serious malfunction with the tail lift ( did you report it?), or the pallet weight exceeds the tail lift safe working load. That is a serious breach of health and safety rules…
You did report it, and filled in an incident report?
Radar19:
Surely a one ton pallet is something that shouldn’t be using a pallet truck for? Ours have a 1t limit.
Oh c’mon Radar! Repeat that to yourself again. 
Must admit i did it once to teach them a lesson…I had a fridge trailer loaded with minus 25 stuff, and it was to be delivered to one of those chinese cash and carry, so they wanted me in the back and i refused…the floor was full of ice, and i never had a minus temp coat either…so they phoned my company, i argued with them , they still told me to unload it…so i got in the back with the right hump, picked up the first pallet, slip slided towards the back ( no tail lift )…and WALLOP…straight off the back…i apologised to the forkie, said the floor was too slippery…helped him pick it up and re-stack, then took the rest back to the depot…funny how they never asked me again to get in the back of a frozen trailer.
I’ve got to say I used to hate tail lifts with a vengeance could never understand how they got passed by the so called H&S. If I walk across the yard at Flixborough docks(there are other places this is a random example) I have to wear a hard hat. Yet the nearest thing to my head is probably the milky way, which to the best of my knowledge hasn’t dropped on anybody lately. Yet they have you struggling with weights up to a ton sometimes liquid sloshing about, five foot up on a platform that’s barely big enough for it, with nothing to stop it rolling off and it’s apparently safe.
Having said that I’ve never dropped anything off one but that’s probably because I didn’t do it for very long and had the good sense 
to get a job on container. So now I just get attacked by the load when I open the doors 
, such fun 
Having just had one of those really [zb]days myself I feel for your buddy!
If the company really gave a [zb] they would change their practices but I bet they don’t!
So a few bits got broke, big deal, it will be forgotten about in a few days - if it hasn’t already, so move on and don’t worry about it!
Never done pallet work…Tankers are so much better 
Sounds to much like work to me.
ive done it with a pallet of wine 9.30 am town centre, very lucky though as the pig crash mats, things we used to drop kegs on were directly where pallet dropped, obviously breakages but not as bad as it could have been…
i was also in the warehouse 1 night when a forkie lifted down a pallet of that real cheap fiz champagne stuff, he started to go backwards whilst pallet was still in air and forks tilted, i,m not kidding when that pallet hit the floor it was like world war 2… corks going everywhere and bottles popping…
Don’t sweat it Dan, crap happens and you should learn and move on, probably literally…
As I think the only advice you haven’t been given is to get a better job driving a bigger VAN!!!
The tail lift on my 26t VAN is the back door, so huge. Yet still flexes with 1.1t on it!
Plus out pump trucks are rated at 2.5t, not like Radar’s cheap skate company! 
Get job hunting pal!
Cheers for the comments chaps, I’m glad some of you understand!
Dave, thanks for the light trolling, it left me with a warm fuzzy feeling as I drank my dulce gusto coffee and I’m now crying myself to sleep as we speak/type 
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But yeah I’m new to the game, been in this job just over two months now and enjoying it. I will consider breaking down a pallet in the future as that will stand me in better stead rather than picking up broken crap off the floor. But what about them ballast bags you get that weigh up to a ton, aka sand, dirt, or stones etc, how do you split that up? Grab a barrow and start shovelling, ■■■■ that ain’t doing all the work for em lol
war 1974/ nodding donkey
Yeah no one got hurt that’s the main thing. I do insist on the customers standing clear when lowering. As they like a cheeky look in the back to see what else you got on! I did phone the office of course and told them what happened, they said these things happen so I thought ok then. The customers were sympathetic as well coz they’ve had one happen before, unbeknown to me at the time! So their obviously aware of the problem with dodgy pallets.
Hi Evil, thanks mate yeah I will defo learn/move on. I’m gonna stick it out with this company for time being. And I now drive the 18t on Saturdays coz I was told you can drive whatever you like on a Saturday! So being in a 7.5 during the week ain’t so bad when you know you can drive a bigger one at the weekend 
Sorry. Your company’s response to a pallet dropping of the tail lift is " these things happen "■■
Guess they will accept the blame if somebody gets hurt next time…
Or pay you full wages when you are of on the sick if you get hurt…
Yep, and they said take some pictures of the mess, which I did. But then no one asked to see them when I got back to depot so that was that. I guess they’ve had a few pallets go like that, But yeah if someone got hurt then it would be a different story!
I also don’t have the rear air suspension like bigger lorries have, which would of helped!
Dan Bear 87:
So being in a 7.5 during the week ain’t so bad when you know you can drive a bigger one at the weekend
Listen mate, if you can’t handle a pallet don’t go chancing it with a big truck. Just move in stages. Learn to unload a pallet first. When you’ve got that under your belt and you can unload safely and easily then you can concentrate on a bigger truck, and all the “dangers” and “challenges” they present. I hope i’ve gave you the exact feedback you where after.
PS. You can practise on the air suspension too that bigger lorries have. You can go up and down all day to your hearts content. Just until you find your own level…
Ok that made it sound worse, I can drive an 18t safely, I went out on my two days training in it. But when I started on my own I got put in a 7.5 so that’s that for the time being. Yes Mike I appreciate your ‘feedback’ , what I meant about the weekend thing started last Saturday when I had 5 deliveries but the total weight of load would have been nearly 2.5t. Well I’ve been to a weigh bridge and my empty lorry weighs 5.2tonnes. So do the maths - that’s 2.3 which I can carry so would be overweight in the little 'un. So I queried them about it and he said take a bigger one as your qualified to drive them, so I jumped at the chance.
Regards
Chill!! Every day’s a school day! ■■■■ happens sometimes. The trick is to learn and not keep making the same mistake. If you don’t (or won’t) learn then life will always be difficult!
Have a good day and you’ve obviously learnt some lessons!
the nodding donkey:
Sorry. Your company’s response to a pallet dropping of the tail lift is " these things happen "■■Guess they will accept the blame if somebody gets hurt next time…
Or pay you full wages when you are of on the sick if you get hurt…
bit harsh ND - jesus most of us made mistakes when we first started, I was lucky enough to only have a couple and was even more lucky that I never had to do any of this minion 7.5 stuff.
as other have said yes they may say don’t strip a pallet but as you now know, shifting 10-20 boxes onto another pallet can save you an hour shovelling the mess up at a delivery.
another tip is if its heavy drop it slightly before you reach the end so it almost brakes itself rather than trying to hold a tonne on your tod. a slight pump and a drop again (ask dipper dave about this if you need more detail on the pump and drop).
I have pallets going over all the time, its only a problem if someone get in the way. So if you have 1 that’s a bit dodgy make sure everyone’s out the way first.