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I worked for a decent sized company a while ago and was the only certified forklift operator there at the time. Well, we got this piece of freight in one time and it took up the entire width of a semi trailer but was only about five wide the other way. I'm trying to pull this thing out and its trickier that all get out because is starts hitting the edges of the trailer and gets all cockeyed. So I pull the old back and forth and finally get it to the point that its about to clear. (enter sinking feeling in gut) Just as I get it clear of the trailer, it rolls right off the forks hits the ground and barely misses a Camaro that was parked nearby. The jackasses that had shipped this thing had loaded the pallet so most of the weight was entirely to the left side of the left fork. They must have loaded this thing on a dock and didn't expect us to pull it out and lower it. Luckily one of the higher ups was right there when it happened and just started laughing his ass off which eased my stress level tremendously!
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