"Jordon" wrote in message
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SteveB wrote:

I drove forklifts for years at Vegas conventions. We had a lot of female
operators. When a person is an operator, they either make it, or they
wash out quickly. They don't let bad operators run for very long. Many
a person, both male and female got put on a horse out there either by
knowing someone or blowing someone, and with their first ****up, they
were ground pounding again. Most were screened by mandatory drug testing
before they ever got on the horse, and then mandatory in case of any
accident or injury. It was one of the few jobs in the place that was
performance based.

Horse? You call a forklift a horse? When I operated them
we used to call them bulls. Like this one...

http://www.portstrategy.com/__data/a...orklift_11.JPG

I loaded barges destined for Alaska out of Seattle, for
about five years. 80,000 pound capacity.

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Jordon

We just had mostly the 3500# Toyotas and Komatsus. We did have a 10,000#,
but rarely used it. During the heavy equipment show, bigger ones were
rented, or provided by the individual companies for assembly. We really
didn't get into that much heavy stuff. Just lots of stuff. During CES one
year, one of the exhibitor's display took 113 flatbeds.

Steve