Well, me personaly i gave up the tools 3 years ago as i had the chance to move into crane inspection(far better money and no going home smelling of gear oil and diesel) but in scotland the average is £19500 per year to around £24000 per year, with call out etc and average overtime you would generaly expect to make around the low £30,000 mark per year.
The reason i was asking about the forklift engineer role was i have no problem going back on the tools if the life style was right, having only experienced being in america in florida 4 times it is very probably an unrealistic vision of what life is like so i thought i would ask here how the real workers experience the trade across the pond,from my own experience here I get a average of 1-2 emails calls a week from recruitment agencies asking if am interested in a service engineers job as they have been very remiss over the last 20 years in training apprentices and its now a case of they are few and far between getting a good engineer, by that i mean one who can do the gas diesel and electric trucks and as always a good engineer competent on electric trucks is always in demand.
thanks for all info btw lads, keep it coming.