Combi truck driver safety training details

What is a combi truck or narrow-aisle truck:

This is a combination device of a reach truck and a high level order picker in which the forks can rotate 180°. This allows a pallet to be moved at height from one aisle to another just by rotating the forks. Combi trucks require only a limited aisle width and can also be guided.

Content:

The training includes 3 hours of theory in group and 5 hours of practice per participant.

Theory:

• Legislation
• Know the basics of legislation for a combination truck driver: ARAB, Codex, liabilities and responsibilities.
• Risks and accidents
• Be able to identify, analyze and control risks specific to equipment and space.
• Safety regulations
• Knowing the safety regulations such as there are: direction of travel, braking for turn, distance between combi trucks, prohibition to take passengers, turning in and out of aisles, adjusted travel speed, regulations when coupling/disconnecting battery and in a loading station, travel height forks.
• Construction of combi trucks
• To know terms related to the construction of the combi truck: clearance height, free lift, clearance height, mast types, turning radius, safety devices on the combi truck.
  To know how to change batteries.
• Working with the combi truck
• Know the elements that make up the starting check: hand brake, foot brake, hydraulic system testing, sound horn check, visual tire check, chain tension, forks, ….
  Know the factors that affect the load and stability of the combi truck.
  Understand and be able to use load diagrams.
  Know that there are different types of pallets and storage methods.

Practice:

• Application of safety and traffic rules: defensive driving, interaction with people and other drivers.
• Be able to perform daily inspection combi truck correctly, recognize dangerous defects and report them.
• Apply correct mounting and dismounting techniques and safely park the combi truck.
• Be able to use the controls correctly.
• Be able to connect and disconnect batteries.
• Adopting a good driving technique: forward, backward.
• Be able to perform the following maneuvers: turning and cornering forwards and backwards, passing in very narrow passages, turning in and out of aisles.
• Be able to estimate distances, depth and height.
• Be able to correctly pick and/or stack at ground locations, in racking and at height and according to capacity of the combi truck.
• Proper lifting and carrying
• Applying order and cleanliness.
• Driving with induction guidance (if applicable)