WALKIE STACKER WAREHOUSE
Practice for pedestrian walkie stacker (walk-behind pallet stacker) operation — familiarisation only. It is not an assessment and not a substitute for training on the real machine at your workplace.
Non-licensed class · Practice

How to run the shift

You are on foot at the tiller — the machine walks with you. Line up square, forks level with the pallet base, tines fully in, then pick. Travel with the load just clear of the floor, horn before the crossing, and set the fork height before you drive into the racking, not after.

Desktop: W/S travel · A/D tiller · Q/E forks · Space pick / set down · H horn · C camera · M sound. Phone: left stick steers and travels, right stick lifts, PICK button on the right.

What the game is modelling

  • The machine can pin you. Reversing means walking backwards into space you cannot see. Getting pinned is the worst incident in the game — the belly button drives the machine off you, but the incident is already on the board.
  • Let go and it stops. Release the travel control and the tiller springs to its braking position. That is the machine's own safety design, and the game brakes the same way.
  • The plate derates with height. This machine's plate rates 1,200 kg only up to 1,600 mm — above that a 1,000 kg residual applies, and the lift cuts out rather than let you take the heavy pallet up.
  • Load centre is a rating, not a suggestion. The long pallet is refused off its deep face — take it on the short face and the same pallet lifts fine.
  • Ramps: load uphill. Leading up, trailing down. The dock ramp scores it.
  • Forks low to travel. Travelling with the load up is scored, square racking entry is scored, and pedestrians on the marked crossing always have right of way.

Licensing: a pedestrian-operated walk-behind stacker is not a forklift truck for high risk work licensing — Safe Work Australia's General guide for industrial lift trucks puts pedestrian-operated trucks outside the forklift licence class, and the model WHS Regulations' definition of a forklift truck carries the same exclusion. No licence does not mean no training: your employer must still train and authorise you on the machine you use. Requirements can differ between machines and states — confirm with your WHS regulator. A ride-on high-lift stacker is a different machine and does need a forklift licence.

The capacity plate in this game belongs to this fictional training machine, and the site rules to this fictional warehouse. Always work to the data plate on the machine you are operating and your own workplace's procedures.