hello Marc
when you say FLT engineer and FLT license are you referring to what we call over here in the states as a technician factory certification?
And as far as driving any lifts we require a lift truck operator license or card showing we've been trained to operate a particular type of lift or machine.

IMO from a technical standpoint, just because a technician has a certification to repair a lift it doesn't necessarily mean he can drive one. Factory training classes do not teach how to drive a lift, they teach how to repair so in reality a factory certification does not define a technician's ability to operate a lift although he knowingly needs to know how it operates. In my years of training classes we have been required to get on the machine and operate the controls and drive it for diagnostic reasons but that does not get us the 'operator license card', we have to take a separate dedicated 'operator class' for that which is more detailed oriented towards actually driving and operating the lift from an operators standpoint.

We are required to have operator training and also have an operator license card from our company (not the manufacturer).