Sad fact with this industry, your basically worked until you drop - especially if your good at what you do, remember a wise old boy who's sadly no longer with us telling me 'boy, your good a what you do, you'll never be a manger or be able to join a sales team - no one will let you'.
Seen a lot of truth in that, seen a lot of guys in there 60's grinding away just to be tossed into the garbage when their knees give out when they should have been back in a depot passing that lifetimes worth of knowledge to the next generation. But no.. 'We can't have them training, we need them earning money!'. It's a big part of the reason for the engineer shortage now, they rarely have their 'best' engineers teaching apprentices, they use the engineer they can 'do without' so you have this bizarre situation of the blind leading the blind.
The guys with the real knowledge work until the joints give out, then retire early and take that knowledge to the grave.
Typical forklift industry short sighted thinking.


I'm only 33 but I know I've got maybe 15-18 years left before the body starts to give up and I've gotta look at something else if I want a retirement life where I'm basically not a cripple.