FORKLIFT

Age Requirement

18

Load Backrest Extension

A device extending vertically from the fork carriage (load backrest).

Attachment

A device including conventional forks or load backrest extension, mounted permanently or removable on the elevating mechanism of a truck for handling the load. Popular types are extension, clamps, rotating devices, side shifter, load stabilizers, rams, and booms, fork positioners

Parking Brake

A device to prevent the movement of stationary vehicle.

Motorized Hand/Rider Truck

A dual-purpose truck that is designed to be controlled by a walking or riding operator.

Overhead Guard

A framework fitted to a truck over the head of a riding operator. The overhead is not designed to carry a load only to deflect it.

Fork Lift Truck

A high-lift self-loading truck equipped with load carriage and forks for transporting and tiering loads.

Order-Picker Truck, High Lift

A high-lift truck designed so that the operator's cage is raised and lowered with the load. The truck may be capable of selfloading and/or tiering.

Operator Platform

A platform or area from which a standing person controls the functions of a lift truck or other material, handling device.

Bridge Plate

A portable device for spanning the gap between two rail cars.

Dock Board

A portable or fixed device for spanning the gap or compensating for difference in level between loading platforms and carriers.

Cantilever Truck

A self-loading counterbalanced or non-counterbalanced truck equipped with cantilever load engaging means such as forks.

Counterbalanced Front/Sideloader Truck

A self-loading high-lift counterbalanced truck (equipped with a fixed or dutiable elevating mechanism) capable of transporting and tiering a load in both the counterbalanced forward position and any location up to and including 90 from the longitudinal centerline of the truck, while possessing the capability of traversing the load laterally.

Low Lift Platform Truck

A self-loading truck equipped with a load platform intended primarily for transporting loaded skid platforms. The vertical movement is less than 10 inches

High-Lift Platform Truck

A self-loading truck equipped with a load platform, intended primarily for transporting and tiering loaded skid platforms, and the vertical movement is greater than 10 inches

High-Lift Truck

A self-loading truck equipped with an elevating mechanism designed to permit tiering. Popular types are high-lift fork truck, high-lift ram truck, high-lift boom truck, high-lift clamp truck, and high-lift platform truck.

Low Lift Truck

A self-loading truck equipped with an elevating mechanism designed to raise the load only sufficiently to permit horizontal movement less than 10 inches. Popular types are low-lift platform trucks and pallet trucks

Narrow-Aisle Truck

A self-loading truck primarily intended for right angle stacking in aisles narrower than those normally required by counterbalanced trucks of the same capacity

Carriage

A support structure for forks or attachments, generally rollermounted, traveling centrically within the mast of a cantilever truck.

Counterbalanced Truck

A truck equipped with load engaging means wherein the entire load during normal transporting is external to the polygon formed by the wheel contacts

Internal Combustion Engine Truck

A truck in which the power source is a gas, propane or diesel engine.

Motorized Hand Truck

A truck that is controlled by a walking operator

Controller

An operator's device for regulating the power delivered to the motor or other equipment

Ordinary Lift

Any lift not designated as a critical.

Critical Lift

Any lift that could result in death, injury, health impacts, property damage, or project delay if there is an accident

Lifts (3)

Critical, ordinary, pre-engineered

Language Requirement

English

Forks

Horizontal tine-like projections, normally suspended from the carriage, for engaging and supporting loads

Physical Requirements

In good health (no loss of function)

Skill Requirments

Manipulating and controlling equipment through all phases of operation

Training Requirements

Qualified for three years

Designated

Selected or assigned by the employer or the employer's representative as being qualified to perform specific duties.

Center of Gravity

That point at which the load mass is concentrated. It is located horizontally by its distance from the vertical fork face and vertically by its distance above the load-bearing surface of the forks; or equivalents for other load engaging means. Except where otherwise indicated, this point is located in the vertical plane of the truck's longitudinal centerline.

Load Backrest

That portion of the carriage and forks that support the load when it is tilted rearward or upward.

Capacity

The capacity of a truck equipped with load carriage and forks or with attachments. The weight at a specified load center that a given truck can transport in a carry position and stack to a specified elevation of the load-engaging means.

Load Center

The horizontal longitudinal distance from the intersection of the horizontal load carrying surfaces and vertical load engaging faces of the forks (or equivalent load positioning structure) to the center of gravity of the load

Center Control

The position near the center of a truck cab from which the operator controls the movement of the truck.

Mast

The support member providing the guide ways permitting vertical movement of the carriage. It is usually constructed in the form of channels or similar sections providing the supporting pathway for the carriage rollers.

Fork Height

The vertical distance from the floor to the load carrying surface adjacent to the heel of the forks with mast vertical, and in the case of reach trucks, with the forks extended