Hit 500 lifts in one week at the Port of Savannah and honestly, more hours does not mean more skill

Diana Park · 2026-10-09T07:50:02.744349+00:00

Everyone keeps saying you need 2000 hours before you even think about calling yourself decent, but I ran 500 lifts in a single week on container cranes at the Port of Savannah back in March and learned more in those 5 days than I did in my first 6 months. The thing nobody admits is that repeating the same pick over and over just makes you fast at one motion, not a well rounded operator. I got so locked into that one rhythm that when they moved me to a different crane with a longer boom the next Monday, my timing was garbage for 2 whole shifts. Has anyone else had a high rep week actually set them back when they switched machines?

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