When I used to work for home Depot I would always tell people that their 1/2 truck wasn't meant to hold 3750lbs of concrete, of course I can only advise them. As soon as they have me load it I would let it drop 3 inches and stop, they would say yeah that's good and I would hit them with, "it's not down all the way" and proceed to go down another 4 inches.
I work at as golf car mechanic we have 2 companys that deliver batteries to us in chevy 1500s the battery i believe weigh between 2000 and 2500 lbs i know this cus the forklift we use is the same i used at a tire recycling facility in wich we would move around regularly bags with 1800-2200 lbs i spent 12 hours a day for 2 years doing that so i can feel the weight on the lift and my estimate is somewere above 2k lbs dor the batters there are 40 batteries and each weigh at the minimum 50lbs a peice.. i think closer to 60 or 65... anyway that chevy 1500 same truck as far as i can tell for now 2.5 years it drops just as low like this when i load or unload pallets of 40 batteries.. also when we push it forward so the bed can close the truck moves like 2 feet.. evrytime i do it all i can think about is that fucking parking pawl in the transmission screaming for dear life like that kid at lowes on the manlift... i never told the delivery guy he should put the parking brake on.. i just try to brake the parking pawl every time but alas rhat fucker after atleast 75 deliveries to us has held up i even asked one of the drivers wtf they thinking using this tiny truck im like is the engine shot hes like no it works fine i am amazed i believe its like a 2008-2015ish chevy 1500 2wd single cab.
This hits home. I used to work at a landscape supply store and would load trucks and trailers with mulch and stones and the like with a front end loader. Guys would come in and get two yards of mulch in the 1/2 ton trucks, which is something like 600-700lbs a yard. They would come back and want some stone and would ask for the same two yards or even one yard. The amount of people that I saw that were shocked to hear that a yard of stone is around 3000 lbs is insane. And some would still take it..... trucks were practically doing a wheelie leaving the lot.
A lot of them don’t have the first idea how to pull forks off a pallet, from my experience they go to low and push in your frame before they scratch out of the pallet then your car raises a few inches because they don’t know wtf they doing
I didn’t even do training I got certified quick af I’m on my second day at this warehouse it’s honestly easy but when people are looking it makes it 10x worse
This is why I always use a utility trailer when hauling heavy items with my pickup. The trailer will hold more and it only cost $1,000. You can easily do more damage than that to your truck on one load.
Show me a trailer u can tow down the rd that will carry that much weight. For only a $1,000! Ain't no way! Probably closer to $5,000 in today's economy and inflation
@@richardbadish6990 Depends when he bought it. Any cheap facebook marketplace 2 axle trailer with one set of working brakes will take that concrete with a smile.
If the customer‘insists’, at the very least push the load forward to the back of the cab to share the load on the front and rear suspension. That vehicle is going to be dangerous to steer as the front wheels will be barely on the ground.
Needed to tilt his forks up at the end, clipping down and up are like the biggest damage things I see every day. Not to mention set it down way to quickly, I always set it slowly, doesn't matter if the person says it's okay, why risk breaking something on your watch. Regardless That's 42 80lb bags, 3360 lbs on a half ton chassis. That truck will be shot in the half mile it moves.
“Aye bro, can I borrow your truck? Just gotta get some concrete from Lowes.” (5 hours later) “Aye bro, when do you plan on getting your suspension and transmission fixed? It was like that when I picked it up from you earlier.”
So as a trainer I would yank their license and refuse to recertify them because part of safety and responsibility is not damaging works or the customers property when loading and if you can tell that something you are about to do could open the company to liability then no not on my watch pal
That’s not a forklift it’s a reach truck but same thing. Those can be a little more difficult to control just bc they’re electric so they jolt a little more. Still a horrible driver in the video 😂
This truck hits any dips or speed bumps and his suspension is going to tap out, just cuz your shit will fit it and squat doesnt mean that any variation in the road isn't going to compound the weight and fuck up your vehicle. A good higj speed bump and momentum is gonna make the suspension bounce up and down but it's gonna be more exaggerated bu the shit load of weight in the bed..
Om surprised dude was loading it with the stand-up forklift, shit is easier than a normal one cuz of the scissors reaching out but in the lumber department you only have the OG one where you lau the pallet down and back up to raise the pallet again to get it further in like this clip.. Bro a few weeks ago dude in a rusted out 1999 f250 wanted 24 bags of the 80lb loaded and by the time i dropped the pallet and we offloaded the difference hos fuckin white wall writing on the tire was touching the ground. Word to the wise if you're picking up a heavy load in a truck make sure you read the sidewall for max PSI and put enough air in the tire almost to max. Don't roll up with 30-35 psi in your tire when it says max is 80. Get closer to 60-70 psi so your shit doesn't flop😂😂
That's not dude's fall on the reach(forklift) He's just doing his job it's just a lot of concrete on it that's a lot of weight what are those like 80 lb bags 50 of them? Dude with the ram truck should take half with him and come back and take another half with him cuz he's going to f up his suspension....
Ive never seen a truck straight up drop to the bump stops with a single pallet on the back, except for ram 1500's. I worked for a roofer once who had a ram 1500 sportsman, and we could only load about a half pallet of shingles into this thing because with our tools, the dog and two big roofers that truck was already overloaded and sagging. Add a half pallet in there and she would ride on the bumpstops! Fucking ram's are such junk, you cannot use these trucks for anything truck related!
@Clamjammer so your saying that your brand new truck needed air bags, basically it needed to be modified just to be able to handle what it just should be able to? I loaded down a 2wd Nissan hardbody with more weight then that many times and that thing didn't ride on the bump stops!
@johnpermabullsmith875 2011: chopped and loaded a fallen tree into the back of an 03 f150 up a mountain 4x4 trail. Easily weighs more then a pallet of shingles. Truck was fine, reversed out 3km!! 2014: jackhammer'd up an entire driveway, loaded the chunks into an 86 f250 and a 93 f350, both trucks had beds full, heaping over the edges with concrete. Got to the dump and realized we had 10k in the bed of the f250 at the weigh scale. Still sagged less then a ram 1500 with a half pallet. 2016: loaded a ram 1500 single cab/shortbox with everything I owned and then put a mattress+box spring on top, rode on the bump stops the entire way!! 2015: loaded a Nissan d21 hardbody with a small load of gravel, lumber, rebar, tools and a passenger, didn't ride on the bumpstops 2006: hooked a huge water trailer up to a Ford ranger and drove 20km back home with it completely full, still sagged less then a ram 1500 under a half pallet of shingles! 1980 and on: My grandpa Don was a plumber, drove chevy's and fords, and it was because he could load them down with all of his tools and materials til they were riding on the bloody bump stops and then he would drive it 200,000km or more around rural Manitoba for a few years for work. A chevy actually worked best! And I'm by no means a chevy fan. 2016: loaded a 93 gas job f350 with 5 guys, a pallet of concrete mortar, firewood, all of our tools, luggage and food for 3 weeks on a jobsite in the mountains. Then I drove it 5 hours through a mountain pass without worrying about my bed having been overloaded by atleast 4k! See that's the thing, with a ram, you actually have to worry "oh shit am I gonna bend my leafs, am I gonna bend the frame, oh no my suspension is on the floor!" When you load it up with anything more then a load of groceries from save on foods!!
I do this probably once every week or two. Our policy is an asm has to be on present during a load or a large order. If the customer doesn’t care that they are being over loaded we let them go. If they don’t want to hurt their vehicle we have a UHaul 2 blocks away to our left. Get one of their trucks and sign the stupid insurance. If anyone doesn’t believe me I how recent picture of a Silverado with 4000lbs of quikrete in the back and another with a Chevy 3500 truck with 2 2/2 pallets shingles + 1000lbs of tools in it.
3,400lb of cement loaded into a half ton rated for 2,300lb of payload… then blame the forklift driver. Another thing take your tail gate off so he can load you up.
It's an hour of labor by the book just to remove the tailgate on these trucks. You have wiring for the legally-required backup camera, electronic latches, position sensor. You have a torsion spring or worse auto-lift motor.
Forklift guy is the least of the problems here. A little sloppy, sure, but the truck is probably over double it's payload capacity. Way overloaded. I'm a little surprised more people aren't talking about that.
The dumbest part of this was the guy who owned a truck wanted to put a pallet of concrete in the back of his truck. If you're that stupid you should just pay someone to do the job for you.
Amateur i would have delicately placed the pallet in the center of the Bed without damaging the product the difference from an amateur to 12+ years is a big difference
@@holasalonto Barely. I have no reason to lie, just sharing what I've seen. He has them on there for towing his 5th wheel camper; 35' long, 22K#. Without them aired up, it bounces going down the highway, aired up you don't even notice it's behind you. His is the 7.3 with a full Banks system and a programmer. It's a bad boy!
@@Mixwell1983 Thus explaining why you have to go to college to be an automotive engineer. Ok the suspension didn't squat, but what about the capacity of the bed, frame, axles, wheels, tires? Then you see a deer on the road you got braking capacity, handling, rollover risk.
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When I used to work for home Depot I would always tell people that their 1/2 truck wasn't meant to hold 3750lbs of concrete, of course I can only advise them. As soon as they have me load it I would let it drop 3 inches and stop, they would say yeah that's good and I would hit them with, "it's not down all the way" and proceed to go down another 4 inches.
Yea man. Or sometimes they’ll tell me okay pull out and that shit ain’t even down all the way and it goes down 4 inches or more like you said.
I work at as golf car mechanic we have 2 companys that deliver batteries to us in chevy 1500s the battery i believe weigh between 2000 and 2500 lbs i know this cus the forklift we use is the same i used at a tire recycling facility in wich we would move around regularly bags with 1800-2200 lbs i spent 12 hours a day for 2 years doing that so i can feel the weight on the lift and my estimate is somewere above 2k lbs dor the batters there are 40 batteries and each weigh at the minimum 50lbs a peice.. i think closer to 60 or 65... anyway that chevy 1500 same truck as far as i can tell for now 2.5 years it drops just as low like this when i load or unload pallets of 40 batteries.. also when we push it forward so the bed can close the truck moves like 2 feet.. evrytime i do it all i can think about is that fucking parking pawl in the transmission screaming for dear life like that kid at lowes on the manlift... i never told the delivery guy he should put the parking brake on.. i just try to brake the parking pawl every time but alas rhat fucker after atleast 75 deliveries to us has held up i even asked one of the drivers wtf they thinking using this tiny truck im like is the engine shot hes like no it works fine i am amazed i believe its like a 2008-2015ish chevy 1500 2wd single cab.
Thats way above the payload cap of even a 3/4 ton or maybe even for a 1 ton truck. Trailer would have been the best choice.
This hits home. I used to work at a landscape supply store and would load trucks and trailers with mulch and stones and the like with a front end loader.
Guys would come in and get two yards of mulch in the 1/2 ton trucks, which is something like 600-700lbs a yard. They would come back and want some stone and would ask for the same two yards or even one yard. The amount of people that I saw that were shocked to hear that a yard of stone is around 3000 lbs is insane. And some would still take it..... trucks were practically doing a wheelie leaving the lot.
Haha your a real one
It hurt more to see the way the forks were pulled out of the pallet, that forklift driver definitely needs a recertification.
he had to pull the forks out to push the pallet further in the bed of the truck.
Exactlyyyyyy
I think he means towards the end, he’s dragging the forks on the trucks bed and it should be slightly above almost floating
I think he meant to lift the pallet up a little and push it farther to the truck. But the pallet broke.
A lot of them don’t have the first idea how to pull forks off a pallet, from my experience they go to low and push in your frame before they scratch out of the pallet then your car raises a few inches because they don’t know wtf they doing
I will begin forklift training soon at lowes. 3rd day tomorrow. Wish me luck
👍🏻 its easy if you drive a car
Gods got u fam🙏🏾❗️
I didn’t even do training I got certified quick af I’m on my second day at this warehouse it’s honestly easy but when people are looking it makes it 10x worse
I have had a forklift license for 2 1/2 years. You’ll see shit that will make you question a customers intelligence.
@@Leotyaesta YES 😂😂😂
This is why I always use a utility trailer when hauling heavy items with my pickup. The trailer will hold more and it only cost $1,000. You can easily do more damage than that to your truck on one load.
Show me a trailer u can tow down the rd that will carry that much weight. For only a $1,000! Ain't no way! Probably closer to $5,000 in today's economy and inflation
@@richardbadish6990could’ve been from a scrapyard
@@richardbadish6990 Depends when he bought it. Any cheap facebook marketplace 2 axle trailer with one set of working brakes will take that concrete with a smile.
How to blow your suspension 101
I be more concerned about the truck than forklift driver.
Why not rent a trailer from uhaul for 30 dollars and save your truck from abuse?
“Alright, guys. That’s lunch!” 😂
you know it
THIS IS A REACH TRUCK!!!! NOT a forklift. This is whata wrong with the video.
A lot of “forklift drivers” don’t know the difference and it’s somewhat alarming
The reach is one of the many types of forklifts though, no? Complete with data plates and all 😂
Now upload a video of this ram driving
Up a hill😂
If the customer‘insists’, at the very least push the load forward to the back of the cab to share the load on the front and rear suspension.
That vehicle is going to be dangerous to steer as the front wheels will be barely on the ground.
Needed to tilt his forks up at the end, clipping down and up are like the biggest damage things I see every day.
Not to mention set it down way to quickly, I always set it slowly, doesn't matter if the person says it's okay, why risk breaking something on your watch.
Regardless
That's 42 80lb bags, 3360 lbs on a half ton chassis. That truck will be shot in the half mile it moves.
No one asked
Well it's a truck at least it's getting used and not being shown off like some sports car sitting in a garage.
What were they thinking. That truck is shot.
@@neoskater420you do realize trucks are very expensive right? One does not simply say “well I blew this truck up, time to get another one!”
This is why you never lend your truck to a buddy
It seems they are looking for a lawsuit
“Aye bro, can I borrow your truck? Just gotta get some concrete from Lowes.”
(5 hours later)
“Aye bro, when do you plan on getting your suspension and transmission fixed? It was like that when I picked it up from you earlier.”
the fail isnt even on the forklift, its the pickup truck
So as a trainer I would yank their license and refuse to recertify them because part of safety and responsibility is not damaging works or the customers property when loading and if you can tell that something you are about to do could open the company to liability then no not on my watch pal
Forklift are actually hella easy to operate. Ive only been doing it for about a month but its not a hard job at all
yeah you still aint as good as me kid yeehaw
@@kathyr2872 😂
Reach lifts and conventional forklifts are way different when it comes to operating
That’s not a forklift it’s a reach truck but same thing. Those can be a little more difficult to control just bc they’re electric so they jolt a little more. Still a horrible driver in the video 😂
@@VerticalHysteria sadly I do ride “that thing” I work at Home Depot 😔
This is why I will ONLY buy a new ford or perhaps Chevy half ton truck. The stupid rams went to coilovers in the back and now they do this shit.
Any half ton truck is doing this with that load in the back 😂
I wanna see the drive away and the unload 😂
First mistake was buying a ram
I am presently working for Floor and Decor in Tinley Park and we do load outs with stand up reach trucks
That’s not a truck, that’s a 4 wheeler.
This truck hits any dips or speed bumps and his suspension is going to tap out, just cuz your shit will fit it and squat doesnt mean that any variation in the road isn't going to compound the weight and fuck up your vehicle. A good higj speed bump and momentum is gonna make the suspension bounce up and down but it's gonna be more exaggerated bu the shit load of weight in the bed..
Om surprised dude was loading it with the stand-up forklift, shit is easier than a normal one cuz of the scissors reaching out but in the lumber department you only have the OG one where you lau the pallet down and back up to raise the pallet again to get it further in like this clip..
Bro a few weeks ago dude in a rusted out 1999 f250 wanted 24 bags of the 80lb loaded and by the time i dropped the pallet and we offloaded the difference hos fuckin white wall writing on the tire was touching the ground.
Word to the wise if you're picking up a heavy load in a truck make sure you read the sidewall for max PSI and put enough air in the tire almost to max.
Don't roll up with 30-35 psi in your tire when it says max is 80. Get closer to 60-70 psi so your shit doesn't flop😂😂
bro needs more leafs
Rams dont have leafs 😂
Yes the 3500 do
When you got a 1/2 ton.
Not the best fork lift operator but maybe not put 4000lbs in a HALF ton pickup?
That's not dude's fall on the reach(forklift) He's just doing his job it's just a lot of concrete on it that's a lot of weight what are those like 80 lb bags 50 of them? Dude with the ram truck should take half with him and come back and take another half with him cuz he's going to f up his suspension....
Shit even half that pallet would be a pretty heavy load for that ram payloads in modern trucks are shit
Rated for 1500lbs let's throw in 4000. It'll be fine.
Ive never seen a truck straight up drop to the bump stops with a single pallet on the back, except for ram 1500's. I worked for a roofer once who had a ram 1500 sportsman, and we could only load about a half pallet of shingles into this thing because with our tools, the dog and two big roofers that truck was already overloaded and sagging. Add a half pallet in there and she would ride on the bumpstops! Fucking ram's are such junk, you cannot use these trucks for anything truck related!
Get air bags in the rear for the big loads They ride so much these than any other trucks. I put 2k in mine all the time
@Clamjammer so your saying that your brand new truck needed air bags, basically it needed to be modified just to be able to handle what it just should be able to? I loaded down a 2wd Nissan hardbody with more weight then that many times and that thing didn't ride on the bump stops!
What? You try loading a pallet of shingles in a half ton pickup of any brand and tell me how that goes.
@johnpermabullsmith875 2011: chopped and loaded a fallen tree into the back of an 03 f150 up a mountain 4x4 trail. Easily weighs more then a pallet of shingles. Truck was fine, reversed out 3km!!
2014: jackhammer'd up an entire driveway, loaded the chunks into an 86 f250 and a 93 f350, both trucks had beds full, heaping over the edges with concrete. Got to the dump and realized we had 10k in the bed of the f250 at the weigh scale. Still sagged less then a ram 1500 with a half pallet.
2016: loaded a ram 1500 single cab/shortbox with everything I owned and then put a mattress+box spring on top, rode on the bump stops the entire way!!
2015: loaded a Nissan d21 hardbody with a small load of gravel, lumber, rebar, tools and a passenger, didn't ride on the bumpstops
2006: hooked a huge water trailer up to a Ford ranger and drove 20km back home with it completely full, still sagged less then a ram 1500 under a half pallet of shingles!
1980 and on: My grandpa Don was a plumber, drove chevy's and fords, and it was because he could load them down with all of his tools and materials til they were riding on the bloody bump stops and then he would drive it 200,000km or more around rural Manitoba for a few years for work. A chevy actually worked best! And I'm by no means a chevy fan.
2016: loaded a 93 gas job f350 with 5 guys, a pallet of concrete mortar, firewood, all of our tools, luggage and food for 3 weeks on a jobsite in the mountains. Then I drove it 5 hours through a mountain pass without worrying about my bed having been overloaded by atleast 4k!
See that's the thing, with a ram, you actually have to worry "oh shit am I gonna bend my leafs, am I gonna bend the frame, oh no my suspension is on the floor!" When you load it up with anything more then a load of groceries from save on foods!!
@@DOWNTOWN_AUDIO sounds like you need to understand the difference between a half ton, three-quarter ton and 1 ton pick up
I do this probably once every week or two. Our policy is an asm has to be on present during a load or a large order. If the customer doesn’t care that they are being over loaded we let them go. If they don’t want to hurt their vehicle we have a UHaul 2 blocks away to our left. Get one of their trucks and sign the stupid insurance. If anyone doesn’t believe me I how recent picture of a Silverado with 4000lbs of quikrete in the back and another with a Chevy 3500 truck with 2 2/2 pallets shingles + 1000lbs of tools in it.
3,400lb of cement loaded into a half ton rated for 2,300lb of payload… then blame the forklift driver. Another thing take your tail gate off so he can load you up.
It's an hour of labor by the book just to remove the tailgate on these trucks. You have wiring for the legally-required backup camera, electronic latches, position sensor. You have a torsion spring or worse auto-lift motor.
60 x 56 = 3360 not 3400
Wishing you'd bought those sumo springs now don't you ???
He is definitely sorry. That reachlift can reach the back of the cab easily. However, no one’s talking about that poor truck!😢
He forgot to tilt down lmao
not a Pro
I put 4000 lbs of slabs in my uncle's '96 Tacoma and I couldn't go more than 25mph, it went all over the place lol 😅
Forklift guy is the least of the problems here. A little sloppy, sure, but the truck is probably over double it's payload capacity. Way overloaded. I'm a little surprised more people aren't talking about that.
That actually looks like a reach, not a forklift, wheels on the bottom shows it
I wouldnt be able to work at lowes or any place like this id be telling people nah i aint gonna load that into that truck cause its gonna fuck it up
Damn, I'd have home depot pay for the scratches that reach driver caused
i’m a driver at home depot and i shit u not we do this on a daily basis lol what bout yall?
You forgot to close his lift gate with the forks.
The dumbest part of this was the guy who owned a truck wanted to put a pallet of concrete in the back of his truck. If you're that stupid you should just pay someone to do the job for you.
atleast it’s getting used for what it was built for
Whoever operating that reach truck a rookie
This folks is why you go to Lowe’s !
Being cheap it only cost 75 to deliver
he didnt plan ahead
Coils dont belong on the rears of trucks
The lift has an extender.
Guy needs to watch forklift joe
Definitely not a professional loader
If it was a Chevy it wouldn't have squatted an inch.
That's a stacker lift
That's not a forklift mate
That’s not a Forklift 😂
Which website has loaded pallet delivery jobs for pick up trucks like this. can someone help thanks
Should have bought the dually truck
It's okay it's just a Toyota
Damn … ik that feeling ☹️
Instant low rider
Reach truck you mean ?
How many bags of cement can a Dodge haul? All of them! 😂😂😂
Slime, what are you talking about? That Ram would be lucky if the rear axle doesn’t break in half coming out of the parking lot.
straight outta Idiocracy
Ram factory rear coils are garbage. Get you some tuftruck coils.
They seriously are. My 1,500lb lawn mower makes it squat crazy
What an annoying voice at the beginning
It's not a forklift
All of it
That's a reach truck dummy
Not too bad I've seen worse
Yikes.
Amateur i would have delicately placed the pallet in the center of the Bed without damaging the product the difference from an amateur to 12+ years is a big difference
Tbf ole mate shouldn't be using the ram for concrete
Get a bigger truck
Lmfao I 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Classic example of wrong tool for the job. My buddy's F-250 with rear air bags can carry 2 pallets without squatting!
Yeah I seriously doubt that, that's 6720 pounds directly put into one spot on a truck, your buddy's f-250 is gonna at the very least squat.
@@holasalonto Barely. I have no reason to lie, just sharing what I've seen. He has them on there for towing his 5th wheel camper; 35' long, 22K#. Without them aired up, it bounces going down the highway, aired up you don't even notice it's behind you. His is the 7.3 with a full Banks system and a programmer. It's a bad boy!
@@holasalonto i think you underestimate how much airbags can support + the stock shocks/ springs. I believe it but I wouldnt do it .
@@Mixwell1983 Thus explaining why you have to go to college to be an automotive engineer. Ok the suspension didn't squat, but what about the capacity of the bed, frame, axles, wheels, tires? Then you see a deer on the road you got braking capacity, handling, rollover risk.
Better then rub against your truck..