So we have just added to our Crown lifts devices that will not allow you to exceed 6 mph and 4 going in reverse! When approaching something the forklift reduces to 1.5 mph... this is such a terrible idea. Its because people up top have no idea how things really work in a club!
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Get rid of the forklifts,no more accidents!have 17 employees pass the freight out of the trucks,then pass it up into the steel!lmao scams club su-ks
While I don't know for sure, but the sensors were installed to help prevent accidents. It hasnt helped. Right after they began to get installed in our market. Someone hit an associate on one of the forklifts. Cant fix stupid... If training was actually worth something and accountability meant anything, then this stuff would not have been happening
After 32 years I left sams 3 years ago. Ten or more years prior to that the sensors you are talking about were being talked about. My whole 32 years I was a fork driver. I recognized when this discussion was first began what a nightmare such sensors would cause. I had to quit because as a fork driver they were overworking me to the point that I blew my bicep tendom trying to stock crazy fast at the cart rail in the last minutes of floor time so I could put a few more skids in the steel. No matter how fast we were or how much we got done it was not enough or fast enough. My guess is they still want the same amount of stocking done even though they have cut your legs out from under you. In a way its been a blessing to have had a disabling injury. Perhaps it saved me from even greater heartache.....
these were installed to prevent home office getting sued for any accidents that might occur. like one poster mentioned, they've noticeably cut production. we need a few more people and lifts to make up for what these things cost in time loss.
most of these ideas that home office come up with seldom help. here's an idea, instead of spending money on cr-p like forklift sensors or automatic doors, put the money into payroll. automatic doors and sensors don't improve stock levels or member service. bodies do though.
And if you step off the lift for more than a few minutes you need to rescan your chip and cycle the key again. If you highlight any item on the startup checklist the fork is locked out. But management knows best.
another brilliant idea from someone that doesn't understand what it takes to stock a club. these sensors cut production by at least 25% if not more. No way you can get a fresh truck unloaded in under an hour now.
Just reassign bad drivers to pallet jacks for a while. Work will still be slower, but harder to do until they learn to be more careful. Skill takes time, learning from mistakes along the way makes a person better. Skilled drivers can manage several pallet jack jockeys and still help out depending on the workload. No matter how careful anyone is, the risk is never going to be zero. Experience is the real mitigating factor for profit and safety, not a snail pace that still poses its own set of risks anyway.
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