Hi swoop223, I'm not sure about the US but in the UK carpet booms are quite common on reach trucks, I had a customer who used a number of 2000kg Linde reach trucks in a carpet warehouse and they had better residule capacity and a stronger mast with less flex than a counterbalance machine, though I have just taken in a Mitsi FB20KT with a 7m triple that was being used with a carpet boom!