Does a standard counter balance forktruck licences cover you to drive a 10 tonne Forktruck? If not how do we train a person to drive a 10 tonne forktruck?

Agree with above, my understanding is that if you are trained on a 5T counterbalance you can operate anything below, say 1.4T, but not above. So if trained on 10T, you can operate any size below, this is from both RTITB and ITTSAR Instructors. But that doesn't mean the operator would require some familiarisation training for the environment / fuel etc, but that could be done by an experience operator.

JPOM, Lets get the pedantic bit over first, there's no such thing a a forklift license,,,,,its a certificate! And no reqt to re-test every 3 yrs, but its a good thing to do! http://www.hsmsearch.co...._safety/licence_to_kill/ Different size trucks require different category's, as far as I know, upto 5 tonnes is B1, above that is B2 (or the other way round?). Then there's different certs for reach, counterbalance etc but these are easily converted. Holmezy