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i am not even going to begin to start naming all the deficiencies with the government inspectors. The behind the scenes garbage is so tantalizing it wold make your hair stand on ends.

Inspectors get paid to work x amount of hours a week to earn their pay. What they do is another story.

Tragic, isn't it. An 18 yr old dies because of lack of training. If it were up to me, license forklifts as they license automobiles. Have these trucks registered so everyone knows exactly where they are located.

Prevention could have possibly prevented this incident, and not 1/2 dozen inspectors running out to the scene after it took place.

You won't change it and neither will I. Too many inept trainers. Too many inept trainers just doing it for the buck. No government control over trainers. Nothing. So what do you expect comes to pass?

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