We appreciate you stopping in this week, I\u2019m Marty with the Warehouse and Operations as a Career Podcast! We\u2019ve been working on a few shows coming up next month, breaking into the transportation fields, 3pl\u2019s and a little on freight brokerage! Until then though, lets talk a little about being an equipment operator. We\u2019ve been discussing several of the different positions in the warehouse and how to build our plans and set our goals to get where we\u2019re wanting to go. I\u2019ve heard from several listeners that\u2019s taken those general labor positions, just using them to get on the payroll and have already started taking advantage of their new experiences. Many of those goals of course lead to be an equipment operator. Maybe a pallet runner or order selector using the electric rider pallet jacks, maybe the doubles or triples even. I\u2019m working with several young men and women with their eyes set on the forklift positions, both the sit down or counterbalance units or the stand-ups and reach lifts. You know, and you\u2019ve heard me say many times, experience is the only way to become a proficient or professional operator. We\u2019ll probably be exposed to the electric pallet jacks first, and it\u2019s a pretty easy unit to operate. I enjoyed my years running pallets, learned a lot about the front docks and especially the receiving process. We just recently talked about running pallets, Check out episode number 129. There I am straying again. Anyway, so I wanted to share a story I heard a couple of weeks ago. A young man had been unloading trailers for about 3 months. He\u2019d of course been through his PIT or 29CFR1910.178 course as he\u2019d been using the elect pallet jack just to run stacked pallets off his trailers and onto the first 35 ft of the dock, staging them for his receiver. He had let his supervisor know that his eventual goal was to become an order selector for him so his departments leadman had worked with him, making sure he was getting to practice on the jacks and letting him run a few pallets every once and a while. Well, he\u2019d done a great job and was promoted to that runner position, he was pretty excited, a position opened up and both his lead and supervisor was excited for him. We\u2019ve talked a couple of times about how human nature is our own worst enemy. Really, it\u2019s so easy to get over confident, or in a routine, maybe comfortable is the word I\u2019m looking for. As equipment operators we always will have to be familiar with our surroundings and be cautious. That means being focused on the job at hand at all times and following all the safety rules we\u2019ve been taught! He had been running pallets for about 6 weeks and doing a great job. The Safety manager had cautioned him once about using his horn when going down the cross aisles and once on another occasion for not honking when coming out of the aisles onto the front dock after dropping off his staged pallets. Nothing serious, he\u2019d been given a verbal caution the first time and he had received a written warning the second time. On this particular day he was running pallets straight down the aisle all the way to the back of the warehouse. It was a big open area used for some bulk overflow storage. He had 24 pallets, they were double stacked, he was using a double pallet jack, so he was carrying 4 at a time. The safety Manager had seen him up front on the docks and cautioned him to slow down a little as he was carrying quite a bit of weight on each haul. Actually, the safety manager liked the young man, he liked his enthusiasm and I\u2019m hearing he would stop him occasionally to give him some pointers, really working with him. About half way through his hauling this particular load the safety manager was in the back area and our young operator sure enough came out of the aisle into the bulk storage area, never honked his horn and traveling much to fast, hung a right after clearing the last bay and saw, you guessed it, the safety manager. He didn\u2019t lose the load,