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Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators”.

Inspect product load for accuracy and safely move it around the warehouse or facility to ensure timely and complete delivery.
Hook tow trucks to trailer hitches and fasten attachments, such as graders, plows, rollers, or winch cables to tractors, using hitchpins.
Position lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, or boxes and secure material or products for transport to designated areas.
Move levers or controls that operate lifting devices, such as forklifts, lift beams with swivel-hooks, hoists, or elevating platforms, to load, unload, transport, or stack material.
Weigh materials or products and record weight or other production data on tags or labels.
Move controls to drive gasoline- or electric-powered trucks, cars, or tractors and transport materials between loading, processing, and storage areas.
Perform routine maintenance on vehicles or auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank.
Turn valves and open chutes to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.
Manually or mechanically load or unload materials from pallets, skids, platforms, cars, lifting devices, or other transport vehicles.
Signal workers to discharge, dump, or level materials.
Operate or tend automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines.