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Page 84
... forklift trucks , then to turret trucks . Eventually the cry was ' get the driver off the truck ' , and soon he was indeed entirely redundant as the most advanced warehouses installed driverless cranes on rails . They move at great ...
... forklift trucks , then to turret trucks . Eventually the cry was ' get the driver off the truck ' , and soon he was indeed entirely redundant as the most advanced warehouses installed driverless cranes on rails . They move at great ...
Page 106
... forklift truck driving . As a consultant told me , ' If you are looking for a careful forklift driver , look for a woman . ' Even Delta had trained one woman to operate the smaller and simpler of the two kinds of truck in use in the ...
... forklift truck driving . As a consultant told me , ' If you are looking for a careful forklift driver , look for a woman . ' Even Delta had trained one woman to operate the smaller and simpler of the two kinds of truck in use in the ...
Page 177
... forklift truck driver in a warehouse , described how he had seen through the ' skill ' story to his own satisfaction : I started the engineering apprenticeship really looking forward to being an engineer and having a skilled job and ...
... forklift truck driver in a warehouse , described how he had seen through the ' skill ' story to his own satisfaction : I started the engineering apprenticeship really looking forward to being an engineer and having a skilled job and ...
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Technology production and power | 15 |
new technology and sexual divisions | 44 |
new technology in mail | 78 |
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