Truck, forklift, counterbalanced.

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

Figure 4-14. Truck, reach, narrow-aisle.

crease the overall height. Gasoline-, propane-, and

e. Truck, forklift, counterbalanced. A forklift truck

clean-burning diesel-powered forklift trucks may be

is a vehicle designed to pick up, carry, and stack unit

equipped with solid-rubber or semisolid tires for use in

loads of supplies and equipment. Standard forklift

warehouses or pneumatic tires for use in outdoor

trucks are available with lifting capacities from 2,000 to

storage areas.

Electric-powered forklift trucks are

20,000 pounds and lifting heights from 100 to 210

equipped with solid-rubber or semisolid (cushion) tires

inches. The trucks are equipped with telescopic masts

for indoor operation only.

Forklift trucks are not

that permit loads to be lifted beyond the height of the

designed to be used as tow vehicles and should not be

collapsed mast, and most trucks have free lift, which is

used for that purpose. Whenever a truck is equipped

the height to which the forks can be raised before the

with vertical only or vertical and horizontal controls

inner slides move upward from the mast and in-

connected to the lifting carriage or forks for lifting

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