For me I passed my test and on the first day nearly tipped the forklift. I still feel bad about it.
I was getting off to adust my forks and avoid dropping my skid. My boss told me, ‘Should be fine like that.’ I listened to him, lift the skid, and it IMMEDIATELY tipped over. Your boss isn’t driving. You are.
The last part is sound safety advice, “your driving not anyone else”
Uneven load shifted as I was about halfway out. Too afraid to try to shift the forks over to try and balance it as it was up about 8m up. The most experienced operator passed by 10 seconds later and said yeah hold up and pushed the load towards the center. After it was safely on the ground, he asked if I got scared. Told him I needed to check my pants. He laughed and said," good! You’ll always remember and it will never happen to you again."
I was picking up a pallet of test seeds and driving them across the field with them in front of the forklift.
I didn’t check my load, hit a bump, and before I could break, ran over half the bags spilling it everywhere.
I am embarrassed to this day.
Backed a forklift into an AC window unit of an office my first day on the job. I was fired by the end of the day and that’s the last time I ever drove a forklift.
