My day as a lift truck technician in training

摘要

I poured my first cup of coffee, sat at the conference table, and suppressed a groan. It was the day after ProMat earlier this year, and I was pretty exhausted. I had spent the week walking however many miles through McCormick Place and filling my brain with the products, concepts and conversations that make this industry so exciting. Crown Equipment had invited me to one of its six regional training facilities in Joliet, Ill., 'about an hour outside Chicago. The plan was to spend the Thursday and Friday after the show going through some of Crown's Demonstrated Performance operator and technician training programs. In hindsight, I might have picked up on the word "demonstrated" and packed more than my Sunday best.