kariat,
Waht I beleive swoop is saying is tahat interial forklift trucks (non tow trators or tugges or what every they be called) are not designed to perform a trailer or rail car (don't laugh that has happened" towing function. - for example, Komatsu, Mitsubishi, Cat & Clark cleary state in their operators manual for their counter balance forklift lift trucks that this is a no, no.

Once upon a time, everyone (lift truck manufacturers) in the US offerd a pintle type or similar tow hook option on their lift (Ford Motor cCompany used to buy them for their assembly plants) but no one does any more. Strongly suspect, lawyers,
P/L lawsuits w/ big pay outs & a revision of our OSHA standards had a lot to do with this. Those little pins recesseed in teh back of a counterweight adn only to be used to secure teh lift on to a delivery truck or wench a lift on to a tilt bed when lift is "dead in the water".

Maybe things are different in other parts of world but our standards are including more for teh EU & I suspect teh EU standards in cldue more of teh North American standards (Canada tends to adopt many of the same stds as the US but I am certain they have some of their own, especially in the province wherever Montreal is located. See at one time - when I had acne, my voice was changing and the Detroit River was only clean on one side, Canada Chrysler used to build a car that was a hybrid - 1/2 Plymouth & 1/2 Dodge. I grew up on the very polluted side of the Detroit River.)