It is all about your muscle memory. Just go with the flow of the truck and don't let your brain battle itself when steering. Never over correct, just lift up your foot off the deadman pedal and once stopped, correct yourself.

@@NKYDIY Thanks for that advice. I'm going to be driving more next week. Its one of those things at first that looks hard when watching someone operate it, but once I actually got onto it I automatically felt it was right for me!

Im training on it now im so used to a sit down propane forklift and its kinda hard learning the direction when turning left or right

@@darrylwashington5548 After 6 months, I can confirm it's all muscle memory as NKY DIY stated. Once you get comfortable with the opposite steering, it will feel natural. It's terrible at first because you think it's the opposite of what it actually is for steering. You'll get better

I drove a stand up high reach crown for 2 years back in 2007 Tomorrow I'm being interviewed to see if I can drive it I think it's second nature for me , once you start again it all comes back I found these took a while to learn in training but once you learn it's really a nice lift to operate, you can become very proficient at it and it's a valuable skill to have , it gets you a higher wage I talk with employers and apparently it's very hard to find stand up drivers They are in demand I'm.not sure why more people aren't training for this position It can be difficult to learn these , good luck

Crowns the best, always ALWAYS remember that!!!

Raymond’s fucking sucks. Hate the steering mechanism and where the control handle is. Most awkward place to have it

I didn’t like the Crown either but I just got a new job and that’s all they have, so I have to learn it. I’m so used of Raymond, I like them the best too.

Probably if u get used to the Raymond then is really favorable. If u used a lot of the crown then it will be the same.

Raymond makes the best reach trucks and stand up forklifts around! I like Crown, but Raymond is way more user friendly.

Thank you! Getting used to it yet?

I cried the first day of training!

No you didn't! Did you pass?

Oh yes I did! I passed, but I also said "F--k this s--t and I parked it and walked away! People at work love to tell me their horror stories of accidents and near misses. Two people told me last night about being thrown off of pallet jacks. When one of the guys saw me in a blue vest he said "Oh, you're on equipment now. Are you on the right is left and left is right one?" "Yes" "Yeah, that's the one I lost a limb on" He has a titanium foot. Just not feeling that comfort level I should :)

Wow that is messed up! You made a good choice in your circumstance. Really, if you aren't comfortable you should never drive a fork lift of any kind. Its dangerous, there are people that come out of nowhere and unstable loads. You have to drive so careful its a risk not worth taking for many people.

thank you lol !!!!!

Mister Bang 🙌🏾🙌🏾

because the way cars are made they can't do a 360 pivot in one spot which is important for forklifts which is why they're designed to work that way, it was all thought out.

I have to drive a forklift at work today for the 1st time and we have crowns but they are about 20 years older than these ones 🤦🏻‍♀️

It actually does drive like a car, if you are traveling backwards, turning the steeler to the right causes the truck to back and left, a car does exactly the same thing. I think the big problem with this version of the truck is that there is no tire angle indicator like you have on other machines so you really don't know how much your tire might be swinged to the right or left which, can be potentially dangerous if you're inside a truck, experienced drivers turn the steeler in one direction until it bottoms out and then the other way a number of turns to re-center the wheels so they can get their bearings ... I have seen drivers at my facility who have been driving for over 4 years and they still have close encounters when operating this machine, as a matter of fact, at least one driver looses their license every few months due to over steering mistakes ... the other problem with this truck is how you move forward and backwards, you have to push on the joystick and pull to go back ... if you're not careful you might apply upwards pressure and accidentally raise the forks when going backwards with a load, the rookies do this a lot and before they know it, their forks are several feet in the air! The tilt feature on this truck is also retarded, you press the bottom bottom to tilt down and the top to tilt up...that might seem like good logic but it is not, the bottom button should tilt up and the top should tilt down perhaps this analogy comes from me flying airplanes where I'm used to pull back on the stick to raise the nose of the airplane and pushing forward to tip the nose forward. It will take an individual on average from 1 to 4 months of continuous operation to learn how to really drive this machine well. If you work at companies like Amazon who will take your license for virtually anything, you are in for a roller coaster ride ... Amazon will take your license if they see even a single box drop from the top of the load. I remember when I started operating order pickers and I lost grip of a coffee box, I lost my license for dropping a box that weight absolutely nothing and had no damage ... when it comes to fork lifts, if you work at Amazon, they will take your license even if you lightly tap anything in the facility ... paranoia to the max where most drivers think it's so childish they have literally turned in their licenses ... drivers here loose their license on a weekly basis for the dumbest shit.

It’s your brain not the physics

Yeah I know that feeling. The only thing that helped me is moving my dead man pedal foot around and holding down the pedal with different parts of my foot as much as I could. I would go from pressing with my toes to pressing with my heel and just trying to move it around. I get it, it sucks and I got a major cramp in the arch of my foot over time. I would wake up and feel the groove on my foot, it hurt.

Quality boots helped me

@@tessajx who’s that

@@craigmoore6829 I just mean like good quality boots. Ill look tomorrow what the brand is

@@craigmoore6829 Refrigiwear PolarForce Hiker boot are the ones I have. Before I got them I didn't know if I could keep the job (10 hr shifts) but once I started wearing these I have no pain

Thank you for that, I didn't put the old trigger trick in the video. That is a good call out!

@@NKYDIY so where’s the crash course video?

If you feel uncomfortable and unsafe then you should not be doing that task.

@@NKYDIY This is normal for a notice, they are intimidated by the machine and how it operates.

If your using a crown reach your getting paid to well to be doubting yourself. Get to know the machines and each isle and how your warehouse ground floor is laid out. (Floors cause most uneasy movement)

Malcolm, you need to ask them to let you go to a certain area and just drive around, pick up some empty pallets off the floor, off some racks, and maneuver around some isles on your own and you will get the feel for these and actually come to enjoy them, these are just so fun to operate, believe me

Same pinch.Steering is really very difficult for use.I was not able to guess.which side tyres’s direction is..

Im training on this too the steering and turning is the difficult part for me

Rookies!

You can't drive your a woman. Lol. Just playing😜

No this is not a reach truck. Thanks for watching!

Yes, please don't crash during this course. I just mean that it is a quick run down meant to be a supplement to actual training.

​@@NKYDIY : Yes, I know ; )

Thought that myself. Poor choice of words. Figured it was made in jest

I'm training on this model, its not that bad, but you need to get used to the controls. After a few hours, I can probably do anything slowly, but need time to think about the controls. Basically the best advice is to get trained, and keep trying. It is just a system you have to learn.

Me too. Especially when there are others waiting for you. Although they've all been in my shoes . We're supposed to disregard them . Easier said than done to just distract yourself from others waiting for you

cool tshirts pull the joystick back/push it to the left

What he said.

And hope that the forks never go up without your knowledge. A friend at work was moving product and didn't realize the forks were raising...until it was too late. Hit a cross beam and lodged the Crown so tight on one end that even maintenance was baffled.

Malloysacat Mck did he die?

@@hood2hood757 That moves it diagonally. The steering lever on the left is what's needed to move it forward

Sorry, no

I think I meant or said never tilt your forks lower while in the air. This is how you tip a forklift when you tilt forward with a load in the air.

Yes he meant never tilt the forks forward with a load in the air. The pallet will slide off your fork and fall off. Even if you are able to correct your mistake quickly. Tilting forward in the air shift the weight of the load, and like the comment above says. If it's a heavy load it could even cause a forklift to tip over. Either situation is very dangerous, and could get you fired, or you could destroy company property and get fired. Injuries and destroying or damaging products or machinery is a serious mistake, that could result in all kinds of repercussions

Never tilt the forks forward. 😂😂

JAE DA-KING757 yea but its no different as the reach they still drive the same these are just for loading and unloading

I better re make the video, thanks for pointing that out!

There is no live instructional video, I apologize.

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@@NKYDIY Hey excuse the late response, I would use linkined to reach out to different crown clients users, and incorporate this is the training of their new employees. You could possibly get certified under crown to do this.

Check out my other video on the Raymond Reach Truck kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zt6YgpdouqfKYYk.html

I love our new crown reach

Raymond is LAME-OND

No shit . Drove a sit down for over 9 years . Learning this one now . Yikes . . I'm over 50 years old and I have all these youngsters racing around me and rolling their eyes at me they seem to hop right on and pick it up. Aggravates me. Added pressure due to 150 of them zooming around opposite directions horns blowing.. etc...4 days and I'm still a little apprehensive.. . Reverse steering is made even more difficult due to a little twist control not a steering wheel. Which uses your thumb to perform all functions . While facing sideways. I'm slowly learning individual moves but still cannot swing in while raising the forks simultaneously, Although it is physically possible I can't haven't been able to perform that yet they give you a 4 weeks. . So I'm not stressing it.I know it's possible . Someone mentioned another videos I've seen to just relax and feel the string for which way you're going you're just not used to the reverse steering because of muscle memory. I'll get it. Not for others. Just to prove it to myself. BTW how do you hold the joystick while pressing the tilt button?. Thanks

I hear that!

You are so right about your foot hurting over time. Keeping the dead man pedal pressed down for hours and hours is really painful on the arch of your foot.

NKY DIY also stand not right position to drive. I hope crown will change stand position.

@@tomtran4431 it has to be the correct way . I'm sure they've scientifically studied it. It's all in our head. I hope. LOL

@@jimsox881 when they put you on the job and you stand on it you will know.

Good luck with that Ajay! Thanks for watching!

That is a telemetry thing and the new updated touch screens do have the wheel angle indicator. You don't really need that anyway unless you are first starting out.

@@NKYDIY id rather have a machine tell me exactly then leave it up to human geussing

@@psychodelic1457 i have been driving this for 5 days and i dont need a wheel indicator. If i dont know then i take a few inches in the safest direction to find out. And now it almost just muscle memory for me after 5 days only