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b'Welcome back and thanks for checking in with us, I\\u2019m Marty and you\\u2019ve chosen to listen in to Warehouse and Operations as a Career today and we very much appreciate your time! I\\u2019m in Las Vegas, Nevada this week, doing a pre site Safety walk at a new facility. I really enjoy having the opportunity to meet with new customers and all their associates. It\\u2019s a quite large facility, about 500k sq ft building, a production warehouse actually. I probably spend more time in Distribution Centers, I\\u2019ve always felt the production side of our industry is a great place work though, I actually think it\\u2019s the perfect environment to get started with, and they can offer us some great and long lasting careers too!
\\nI\\u2019ve done a little research on a few pieces of equipment that I\\u2019d like to talk about today. You\\u2019ll typically see all the standard material handling or powered industrial equipment in both production and distribution centers. Pallet jacks, stand up lifts, reach forks and the counterbalance lifts moving freight across the docks. I seem to see the more specialized units or trucks around production facilities so let\\u2019s look at a couple. I\\u2019ll put a few URL\\u2019s in today\\u2019s show notes in case you\\u2019d like to check\\u2019em out, maybe learn a little more about their uses. Hey, what\\u2019d ya\\u2019ll think about us making a WAOC YouTube channel so we could share some pics and slides of the things we discuss, maybe we wouldn\\u2019t use it weekly but it could be another avenue for us to learn with? Send us an email to host@warehouseandoperationsasacareer.com, let me know if that\\u2019s something you\\u2019d like to see. Maybe I could learn a little about video!
\\nLet\\u2019s talk about the Order Picker for a minute. Over the last 3 weeks I\\u2019ve been asked about them 4 times so let\\u2019s learn a little about them! I was talking with an order selector a few weeks ago, he had found himself a great job as an order selector, he\\u2019d been looking for a while and was just recently hired on. He\\u2019d wanted a productivity position with a triple rider jack and he\\u2019d found it and was loving it! Just before this position landed in his lap he had accepted an order picker position only to find on his first night that the recruiter had been talking about a piece of equipment instead of a position. Listening to his story I thought I\\u2019d bust my spleen laughing so hard. He\\u2019d gone in, went through 2 hours of orientation and was taken out to the floor where he found out he\\u2019d be operating an actual order picker. What made the story so funny was listening to him talk about how afraid of heights he was and his panic attack he experienced when he stepped on the platform of the lift. I\\u2019ve heard the Order Picker called a cherry picker, a hi/lo, a platform truck and a high rise truck and I\\u2019m sure there\\u2019s several other names used for it. If you go to the https://www.raymondcorp.com/lift-trucks/orderpickers to purchase what we old high rise selectors call a cherry picker you\\u2019ll find it listed as an order picker. Same thing with Crown Equipment, https://www.crown.com/en-us/forklifts/sp-stockpicker.html you\\u2019ll be looking for an order picker. You all know Joe, our WAOC Safety expert, when I want to upset him I\\u2019ll just call an order picker a cherry picker. I work with a lot of Recruiters through the many different job boards across the nation and I\\u2019ve decided what we call equipment is very much a regional thing. And of course, we as employees tend to use the phrases that our management uses, and I think they may just be carrying on traditions with what they were taught to call them!
\\nWe can checkout https://raymondhandling.com/dictionary/order-pickers/ for a great definition of the order picker. Basically it is a unit where we stand on the operators platform with a set of forks behind the driving compartment used to attach a pallet for us to place cases, units or pieces of our orders on during selection. Its used in narrow aisle situations with many pick locations where several SKU\\u2019s or ...'