One thing that leads people to believe that a forklift can be used as a towing vehicle is most manufacturers continue to publish "draw bar pull" (empty & loaded) ratings on their specifications sheets. Guess the spec is used to indicate the "power" at the drive wheels of the lift. Once upon a time we used to demo the power of our forklift that was made in Japan by chaining our lift to the competitors lift via the counterweight pins and would drag the competitors unit any where we wanted. The specs sheets seemed to indicate the comptitors should have won the tug of war battle. And we would give any prospective customer a $100 bill if they could find a a drop of oil underneath our new stock inventory. Never paid out once and that $100 bill started to turn brown.