US spec reach trucks are different to the rest of the world.

There mast is fixed, they have skinny support arm's & there is a extending scissor pantograph that operates the reach fork's function.

Not seen any reach with that type of design that can lift more then 2 ton ( unless any US forum users know of one )

Only thing close to it in Europe is the Linde X type reach truck, one of my customers had one on demo when they first launched & absolutely hated it, really poorly designed both from an operational & maintenance point of view - hand pallet truck under elevated forks to change the battery for a start!

Have any of the US forum user's ever had a go on a rest of world spec reach truck?

I suppose if they where let loose on something like a BT Reflex RRE250 with tilting cab & 12.5 metre mast they would get used to how the rest of the world works with reach trucks.