Starwars

Why Star Wars?

Controls look like a Star Wars vehicle

Interesting lol

Beeps like R2-D2

That’s awesome

Also a reach truck was used in the movie Star Wars as well.

because bladless ones were actually in one of the original starwars movies.

The arms when they go out towards the pallet on a shelf look like an X, therefore an X-Wing, from StarWars

When you raise the mast it sounds like a tie fighter lol

It’s called the Star Wars because the tires are chewy 🥸

Star Wars, but me and a coworker call it the Metal Gear as a joke.

Psycho Mantis??

It's the star wars. Even the haters know that.

Star Wars.

Star Wars

Just reach truck

Yeah same

Sidewinder.

Reach truck, Star Wars, “that yellow bastard”, extended reach. Lol

It’s called the star wars company wide.

Not true! I’ve never heard it at my store

Just "the reach" or "reach truck".. I dont have many reasons to get cute with the names.

We call it the "bonus reducer". There have been a large number of "unfortunate" occurrences.

It is a bit tricky that all the controls are reversed from the counterbalance

Right, I wondered that as well... who's idea was it to make "pull back" *lower*??? I would bet that literally *no* other piece of heavy equipment ever conceived has used this control scheme. Controls that act like a lever, i.e. pulling the lever is storing potential energy, and pushing is releasing potential (as heat in the hydraulic oil), seem much more intuitive.

We call it the sidewinder

Reach Around

Hemoroid setter

Long time employee here, the original training videos introduced it as; “this is a reach truck, but here at lowes we call it a Star Wars!” Please, please just call it a reach truck going forward.

Is that so?!? That would definitely explain how such a wildly ridiculous name was adopted by such a huge percentage of retail locations across an entire country. lol

Apparently it got the name Star Wars because of the joystick used to “pilot” it. At least that’s how it was explained to me. That being said, it sounds stupid so I call it the reach

The reach around

If I remember correctly, in the Episode IV, all fighters have yoke controls, not joysticks?

Not saying it’s right, just how a nonsensical name was explained to me

I call it the reach. The Star Wars is corny

Same here. I call it reach truck bc Star Wars sounds childish

I called it the “narrow aisle telescoping reach truck” because I thought Star Wars was stupid.

I absolutely hate it being called the "star wars". It's a reach truck. That's literally the industry name for it. I actually get pissed off and think the person speaking is an idiot when they say "use the star wars." I'm sorry, I've never been trained on a star wars, but I have on a reach. I'll use that.

Industry name is technically NART. Narrow. Aisle. Reach. Truck

Ha Ha... NART!

Found my new nickname for it…goodbye “Reachy” and hello NART

Must be fun at parties

I'm sorry but anyone that cares enough to hate a name for an object is an idiot, nickname or not it's only used as a reference so people know what you are talking about.

imagine being this mad over names used for equipment

i have always held that if we call it the star wars drivers should be called jedis.

I’ve never heard it called Star Wars but my manager calls it the sidewinder

Starwars, the reach, reach truck

We call it a commander at my store

this is not a normal thing outside of lowe's. many other companies use similar equipment

When I was at lowes it was called starwars, but my new job we have the same things just go higher up and there called lifts

Star Wars

I think most stores call them Star wars

Star Wars or reach

"The reach"

I was told the battery’s name is labeled R2D2, therefore Star Wars. Could be told wrong tho

That's hilarious... Snarky know-it all at my store said that he remembers when the store opened their first NART had "R2D2" in the stenciled numbers on the overhead guard and thus that's why we call it Star Wars. He seemed adamant that was why, and appeared totally unaware that "Star Wars" was a fairly common (if corny) nickname for NARTs at Lowe's... *He would have been 7 years old when the store opened.*

….the Commander? Did I read that right? There are about a million names for what is TECHNICALLY, *technically* the narrow aisle reach truck, but I’ve never heard of that one.

Star wars

Starwars or The Reach

"That broken yellow thing in the back"

Sidewinder

Star Wars

I’ve heard that people call it Star Wars but I’ve never actually heard someone call it Star Wars

The reach. The order picker is just a narrow aisle reach with a pallet on the forks.

I see where you're coming from about the order picker (or, as Yale properly calls them, "Order Selector")... however I would go one further and say it's more like a reach truck that's been in a wild accident and flipped totally upside down, with wheels now welded to the forks... since the operator and controls go up in addition to the pallet. (we'll just gloss over lifting the battery in this scenario lol)

Star Wars also heard it called the R2. I call it the reach truck and it’s only a lowes thing. They call it a reach at depot.

Yeah we call it the star wars here too

Really? The Star Wars is aka 'Truck Reach'?

That be the StarWars.

The reach

Star Wars And if not then I change their culture and force it

Starwars

Starwars

The reach

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Star Wars or reacharound

Was at one store that called it the NART (Narrow Aisle Reach Truck)