I was just curious how many professional trainers out there offer their services to individuals that are not currently employed by a company?

We get tons of calls from people wanting to apply for forklift operator jobs, but that have no experience. They want to attend a short class, pay almost nothing for it and at the end get a card that says they can drive a forklift anywhere.

We have never done this type of training for several reasons. We do not know where they will end up, will it be a grocery store with one walkie or a steel mills with huge sit down riders. We also know that many employers will simply people right on a forklift with no additional training if the operator presents some type of "card" right up front during the employment process, which is a big no-no, but they do it anyway.

I am aware of a few training centers in the US that take these kinds of people in and turn them into operators. Most spend almost a week with these type of people, but you would need to charge a pretty penny for it and also have a decent sized facility and fleet of equipment.

Just curious if you even entertain the training of "independents"