have used this company for 20 plus years I am a business owner…read moreand understand rising costs however our last service went up almost 100% from 2 years ago.our technician is great.I called to discuss bill never received call back had to call again expressed my opinion as was answered I know the pricing is high and understand

I could not recommend MidAtlantic for OSHA Forklift Training for 2014, but it sounds like they are…read morelistening, responsive, and making changes for 2015. In 2014, you couldn't take the $5 booklet home with you, just in case you thought that that might have been included with your $175 tuition. The forklift hands-on training was fairly worthless from my experience in 2014. You take an empty pallet from one side of a parking lot to the other and set it down. I didn't learn much, but the CEO said they are making big changes in 2015 and I really appreciate his responsiveness. I can now highly recommend MidAtlantic as very few companies monitor and respond to reviews in timely fashion. I would rather go to a responsive, caring, and innovative company like MidAtlantic than any other company that has 100 positive reviews and no response from the CEO. The employees that deserve mention are definitely Bob & Ivy. Bob really cared about SAFETY FIRST and his stories really showed that. Ivy the receptionist was also super helpful and communicative. Although MidAtlantic taught that off site training was requisite per OSHA (and I still would send my employees to MidAtlantic for training), but FYI you should train your own employees on site as well to satisfy OSHA standards from what I can tell: You can train & certify your own employees FOR FREE if you follow the OSHA standard: OSHA standard. 1910.178(I)(2)(ii) requires initial training of "formal instruction" (classroom, video, interactive computer learning etc.), "practical training" (hands on demonstration and exercise) and evaluation of the operator's performance in the workplace. Just use this site: http://www.free-training.com/osha/forklift/forkmenu.htm & then certify your people with hands-on training & evaluate & document it. See OSHA's rule from here: https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=FEDERAL_REGISTER&p_id=13456 "The employer may choose the training provider. This could include contracting with an outside professional training company to come into the company and train the powered industrial truck operators or the employer developing and conducting the training program. In either case, the employer can choose the method or methods by which the employees will be trained and when the training is conducted." Also, it is a myth that you need to send your employees to retrain offsite every three years guys. According to OSHA you just need to re-evaluate them every three years by observing them doing PIT work that they normally do and document it. An evaluation is not training. See here: Myth - OSHA says I met do refresher training for powered industrial trucks every 3 years. Interesting. Where? Has your safety consultant been charging you for this service? Maybe you bought an expensive training kit in fear that you need to renew everyone's forklift "license" every 3 years. We help clients get discounts on some of the best training kits on the market and provide this training but I always clarify the OSHA standard. 1910.178(I)(2)(ii) requires initial training of "formal instruction" (classroom, video, interactive computer learning etc.), "practical training" (hands on demonstration and exercise) and evaluation of the operator's performance in the workplace. Refresher training of an employee when the PIT is used in an unsafe manner, an accident/near miss occurs, does not pass the evaluation, assigned a different truck or conditions change in the workplace that could affect safe operation of the truck. But where did the every 3 years idea come from? 1910.178(I)(4)(iii) requires an "evaluation of each powered industrial truck operator's performance" to be "conducted at least once every 3 years." An evaluation is not training. - See more at: http://www.hshi.com/interpreting-osha-forklift-myths/#sthash.HCqJ9FGC.dpuf In fact, offsite training doesn't satisfy OSHA standards since OSHA standards dictate that you must be trained and evaluated on the equipment that you use. So you can still get hit with OSHA fines even if you have offsite training every three years: 4.19.2 The operator training program should include the user's policies for the site where the trainee will operate the truck, the operating conditions for that location, and the specific truck the trainee will operate. OSHA FAQ: https://www.osha.gov/dte/library/pit/pit_q-a.html