IBM created the PC where everything was standardized. You could go down to the local computer shop and find parts to fit in the box and work. Look what happened to IBM. Don't look for the manufacturers to spend their R and D money to build a lift make it so anyone can work on it. It isn't going to happen. The only reason parts and service info on cars is so readily available is because the government makes them do this. Specifically, the EPA makes sure anyone can fix an emission problem on a car and mandates that the manufacturers make the service info availalbe to fix the car (at a price).

Forklifts and a piece of industrial equipment. The manufacturers are not going to give away the info to fix them any more than the manufacturers of a printing press, a stamping machine, or a CNC mill. They want return on their millions spent on R and D.

Not that I would not favor some standardization so I can fix all brands of trucks. I am just saying it will not happen.

Mr Forkliftservice, I don't believe you are correct in saying that techs like us made the automobiles serviceable by everyone. I think that if the government did not mandate the auto manufacturers to make service info available, you could not get the info. It would be just like working on a forklift. I believe there are regulations about making part specs available for cars. This is why 10 to 20 % of the aftermarket stuff I put on forklifts does not fit. Most everything I buy aftermarket for my cars fit. It may be of questionable quality, but it fits.