h67st Posted Thursday at 01:08 PM Share Posted Thursday at 01:08 PM Found this pic on the interweb, would they use this in truck driver school? 😉 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Thursday at 01:20 PM Share Posted Thursday at 01:20 PM Shortest of the short busses. Actually wouldn't make a bad jockey truck. Automatic, small motor, staircase for saving the knees. Wonder if it has a hydraulic 5th wheel 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Thursday at 11:18 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:18 PM Wow, that thing was way. Cool thanks for that. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Thursday at 11:21 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:21 PM Yes, I also like the In-N-Out. I’ve driven a few yard dogs in my time. They’re usually not very easy to get in or out of. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted Thursday at 11:24 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:24 PM I almost stayed at my old job part-time moving trailers, but I was talking to a guy that just got off of one and went back to forklift driver and I asked him what the deal was and he said he got tired of jumping on and off that thing, it was easier to run a forklift Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Weeks Posted Thursday at 11:28 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:28 PM I've seen a school bus chassie turned into large fork truck! With rear and side access, I bet it worked well as a yard goat. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Saturday at 02:50 AM Share Posted Saturday at 02:50 AM You know truck driving is like the only occupation that OSHA exempts from rules about working at heights and climbing. Something about it falling under the jurisdiction of the DOT or FMCSA and they do not address the issue. In an industrial setting you can only climb a few feet (like maybe 3) before all kinds of regulations about fall protection and everything kick in. I've been in plants where they require you to wear a harness and be clipped off just to run a scissor lift 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehummell Posted Saturday at 11:09 AM Share Posted Saturday at 11:09 AM I worked at a place that for about 20 years everyone outside of the office's ran either the forklifts or skid steer's we got bought out and all of the sudden I went to forklift school to be an instructor for giving out tests, so everyone had a license in case Osa showed up at the school I never was asked to actually drive and operate a forklift I just sat and watched video's and tested on stuff I read I got a license to instruct for gas, diesel, liquid, propane, natural gas, electric, lift trucks about anything that lifted stuff the yard guy at our yard was running a forklift from the time he got out of school all totaled probably 40 years he and I laughed when I gave him a test so he could be able to drive the forklifts. Fifty years ago, I had to have a forklift license and one for the yard crane but nothing to get in a 992 or run a d-9 around the yard 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 70mackMB Posted Saturday at 12:15 PM Popular Post Share Posted Saturday at 12:15 PM Driving dump truck way back when we had a four hour safety meeting. The company set up a tent with chairs and tables in the pit and a guy from "MSHA"(?) Mine Safety and Health Admin came out and gave a long winded talk. At the end of the day we got a little card that said we knew all about mine and open pit safety operations. .....Hippy 2 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehummell Posted Saturday at 01:09 PM Share Posted Saturday at 01:09 PM The first time me and tom got sent out to the stripping's to work on a cat we pulled onto the stripping road and a sign said keep left we looked at each other and was at a loss what that was about and about that time a really big haul truck came around the bend in our lane we moved over just in time no one at the shop told us to pay attention to the road signs. I was camping up in Maine in the paper company's land and when you signed in they told us their logging trucks have the right of way, and they won't stop for you and we watched them go by hell bent for leather down the golden road 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Saturday at 03:42 PM Share Posted Saturday at 03:42 PM Forklift certification, what a joke. I was on a forklift before I was a teen. When that "certified forklift operator" thing came out I thought "What kind of idiot can't operate a forklift" But then again, today we have grown men that can't jumpstart a pickup or change a tire. If we are going to Make America Great Again all these nancy boys are going to have to be thoroughly re-educated 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted Saturday at 04:32 PM Share Posted Saturday at 04:32 PM On 3/22/2025 at 3:42 PM, Joseph Cummings said: Forklift certification, what a joke. I was on a forklift before I was a teen. When that "certified forklift operator" thing came out I thought "What kind of idiot can't operate a forklift" But then again, today we have grown men that can't jumpstart a pickup or change a tire. If we are going to Make America Great Again all these nancy boys are going to have to be thoroughly re-educated Expand 🤔 funny thing. I'm here reading this as I eat the Quarter Pounder they/them handed me . 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Saturday at 05:59 PM Share Posted Saturday at 05:59 PM On 3/22/2025 at 4:32 PM, Mark T said: 🤔 funny thing. I'm here reading this as I eat the Quarter Pounder they/them handed me . Expand Good thing it wasn't a Big Mac. I wouldn't trust the "special sauce" 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted Saturday at 07:01 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:01 PM 😶 you may have just put an end to my occasional fast food cravings 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Saturday at 07:21 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:21 PM On 3/22/2025 at 7:01 PM, Mark T said: 😶 you may have just put an end to my occasional fast food cravings Expand Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted Saturday at 08:48 PM Share Posted Saturday at 08:48 PM Thanks 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseliner64 Posted Sunday at 01:01 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:01 AM I ran D8 dozers,375 excavators,779 haul trucks, Forklifts,Overhead cranes,Scanskia drilling rigs and other wheeled equipment in a quarry I worked at without one piece of paper saying I could...If you couldnt run it you got the gate......Now lots of people have fancy certs saying they can run this and that and they cant!!!! Whats gone wrong???? To have a CDL in Europe now you have to have CPC cert.To get it its a day every year in a classroom.Last year the guy who delivered the course admitted to us he didnt have a CDL as he didnt need one to deliver the course,just read it out of the manual......Got hard to take it seriously real fast...... Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted Sunday at 10:41 AM Share Posted Sunday at 10:41 AM 25 years ago i had a union "pit book" the company got big job widening a main line road. two of the machines i ran were a cat 980 and a terex T36 scrapper. union BA came on the job one day and saw me in the 980. told me i could not be in it and called the hall for someone to run it. guy was in the machine 10 minutes and overheated the trans trying to run in third gear, plus locked up the brakes. also complained it did not have air conditioning. took me 15 minutes to put it back to work. next day the BA kicked me off the T36. new guy shows up and the BA tells me i have to show new guy how to run it. i told him to F.O. and everyone walked off the job until the BA left. that was the last day he was allowed near that job. as retribution, a month later he showed up at the sand pit i was running, intending to shut me down foe sending loads to a union site with non union drivers. he had "spies" tailing the trucks......who all went out of state.. when he found out, he left. and got 1/2 mile down the rod before being pulled over for driving while intoxicated and open alcohol containers in the back seat of the company pickup he was driving. i had seen him drinking while i was loading trucks and called the police to let them know. not only did he loose his license, he also lost his job. 2 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted Sunday at 04:55 PM Share Posted Sunday at 04:55 PM On 3/23/2025 at 10:41 AM, tjc transport said: 25 years ago i had a union "pit book" the company got big job widening a main line road. two of the machines i ran were a cat 980 and a terex T36 scrapper. union BA came on the job one day and saw me in the 980. told me i could not be in it and called the hall for someone to run it. guy was in the machine 10 minutes and overheated the trans trying to run in third gear, plus locked up the brakes. also complained it did not have air conditioning. took me 15 minutes to put it back to work. next day the BA kicked me off the T36. new guy shows up and the BA tells me i have to show new guy how to run it. i told him to F.O. and everyone walked off the job until the BA left. that was the last day he was allowed near that job. as retribution, a month later he showed up at the sand pit i was running, intending to shut me down foe sending loads to a union site with non union drivers. he had "spies" tailing the trucks......who all went out of state.. when he found out, he left. and got 1/2 mile down the rod before being pulled over for driving while intoxicated and open alcohol containers in the back seat of the company pickup he was driving. i had seen him drinking while i was loading trucks and called the police to let them know. not only did he loose his license, he also lost his job. Expand Local 825? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted Sunday at 08:21 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:21 PM how did you guess? and now that i think of it, it was 36 or 37 years ago, i left that company spring of 95 when the owner started treating me like his son in law that left because he was tired of being treated like dog poop on the sole of a shoe. 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75307-schools-out/#findComment-571927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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