Sentence examples for operating a forklift from inspiring English sources

Cooper, who was operating a forklift at the time, now cares for his grandchildren.

WASHINGTON — After eight months without work, Cathy Willburn spotted a classified ad last June offering a full-time job operating a forklift in a warehouse for $14 to $19 an hour, with benefits.

Mr. Scruton, who was operating a forklift in the warehouse when he was fatally shot, was so eager to get away that he and his wife had already moved to a house in New Hampshire, where he lived on weekends.

"I'd like to drive it," said Gilbert Alvarado, 39, who earns $10 an hour operating a forklift at a furniture warehouse in Linden, about 12 miles, or 25 minutes in the car he doesn't have, from his apartment in Newark.

A longshoreman operating a forklift pushed a pallet of celery against a pallet of sweet potatoes, then raised both at once to an opening in the ship's hull, where a second longshoreman picked them up, one at a time, with a smaller forklift and transferred them to a member of the ship's crew, who moved them, on a third forklift, onto a platform elevator and into a storage room.

"Think about a cashier working side-by-side with an automatic check-out machine, or someone operating a forklift in a warehouse which also employs delivery robots driving right next to them," the researchers say.

So a general discussion arose, and the upshot was that now everyone knows how to operate a forklift.

Mr. De Los Santos was not certified to operate a forklift; the year before, he had struck his supervisor with a forklift, breaking the man's foot.

But they still won't be able to vote, or operate a forklift, or get a job at a sawmill, or buy a pack of cigarettes.

But Singer, a solitary fellow who operates a forklift at a warehouse, is dying of testicular cancer, and his protg's troubles extend beyond his dysfunctional home.

My father, who was a truck driver, later taught me how to operate a forklift and, when I was old enough, to drive an 18-wheeler.