joe

A business hires a person as a warehouse forklift operator. This person is earning $12.00/hr. Businesses are not interested in paying alot of money to have that person trained, especially if the person quits a short time after to a job that pays.25cents an hour more. And if they had it their way, the training would be completed in 1/2 day. This is fact! I experience it everyday.

First question is 'how much?' Second question 'how long will it take?' That's it! That's all!

80 hours of practical training? You're dreaming in technicolor. No one here, at least, is willing to afford their staff for 80 hours of training, financially, time off the floor, or otherwise No one.

I take the most amount of time to do forklift training in the region I work and live. Typically, a full day for 7-8 staff on a sit-down propane truck. Whether they are novice or experienced, that is all afforded to me. If I took 2 days, I would be working as a forklift operator at Home Depot myself.

We can all wish and hope that industry sees things our way, but they won't, especially when production comes first, and safety, last.

All I can do is go in and do the best training available in the time allotted to me. That's it! If I don't, someone is on my heels ready to appease the client. That is reality. That is the way it is!

I agree with what all you are saying. On the other hand, I have to deal with the phone calls I get each and every day. How much and how long?

And as long as every business commands the same, and many of my competition adheres to their subpar practices, we can talk until we are blue in the face, one day is all we've got, and those are the terms we must live by. If anything else is written in the laws, and the laws are not enforced, then its industry who is commanding the workload, and not vice versa.

Whether you agree with me or not, that is your choice. I deal with this everyday. I take the longest amount of time of all my competition to educate and ****, and I am certainly far from the most expensive.