I really do not care what the client wants as far as timing. I complete my session when I am satisfied that the participants are knowledgeable, safe, and capable of operating the forklift. If the company wants the Record of Training with my signature at the bottom, making it a legal document, I will take as much time as necessary to train the staff.

A sit-down counterbalance forklift/propane usually starts at 8AM and theory finishes by 330PM, with practical testing thereafter. You can do the math, and that is how long it takes. Battery operated sit-down forklift will be about an hour less.

I have turned down business to companies wanting it done in a half a day. I say 'no way" and let them go elsewhere, knowing that one day I will read in the newspaper about a lift truck incident at their workplace.

Just because there is a sense that incidents and deaths are easing up a bit, I am still going in full throttle.