Last updated: 19 September 2026.
This page covers how ForkliftCompare is written and edited. It sits alongside two others: how we source and publish specifications explains where the numbers come from, and about explains what the site is and how it is funded. This page is about the judgement that sits on top of the data — the guides, the comparisons and the decisions we make about what to publish at all.
Who is responsible
ForkliftCompare is an independent site. It is not owned by, funded by, or affiliated with any forklift manufacturer, dealer, hire company or industry body. One editorial team is responsible for everything published here; where a page carries a claim, the site carries it, and there is a person behind it who can be told they got it wrong. The contact page reaches us.
We do not present ourselves as certified forklift engineers or safety trainers, and we do not publish under invented expert bylines. What we have is a specification database built from manufacturer documents and the discipline to read them carefully. Where a question needs a qualified person — a thorough examination, a training sign-off, a site risk assessment — we say so and point you to the standard rather than pretending to answer it.
Two kinds of page, two different standards
Specification and comparison pages are generated from the database. Every figure on them is transcribed from a published manufacturer document, and the page names that document. Nothing is estimated, interpolated from a neighbouring model, or averaged. The full rules are on the methodology page, including what we do when a figure has not been published.
Guides and articles are written, not generated. They exist to answer the questions a specification table cannot: which figure actually decides a purchase, why two sheets that look comparable are not, what a regulation requires. They are held to a different standard, because they contain judgement:
- Any regulatory claim is quoted from the regulation itself and cited by paragraph — OSHA 1910.178, VDI 2198, and so on — not paraphrased from another website.
- Any number in a guide either comes from our own database, where it is traceable to a manufacturer document, or from a named public source that is linked.
- Where the honest answer is a range or “it depends”, we publish the range and say what it depends on, rather than inventing a single confident figure.
- Where we are giving an opinion — that one specification matters more than another for a given job — we write it as an opinion.
What we will not publish
We do not publish forklift prices. Dealer pricing is negotiated, varies by configuration, region and volume, and any number we published would be wrong for most readers while looking authoritative. We explain what to ask for instead in our guide on what a forklift costs.
We do not rank models as “best”. Comparison pages show measured differences and say which model leads on a specification only where higher or lower is objectively better. Capacity and lift height are marked that way; wheelbase and tyre size are not, because neither direction is better in the abstract.
We do not accept payment for placement, ranking, inclusion or a favourable mention, and we take no referral fees from dealers. Advertising on the site is bought through an ad network and is marked as advertising; no advertiser sees a page before it is published or influences what it says.
Use of AI tools
We use AI tools for drafting, summarising and checking our own work — the same way we use a spellchecker or a spreadsheet. We do not use them as a source. No figure enters the database from a language model, and no regulatory claim goes live because a model asserted it; both are checked against the original document. A draft that cannot be traced back to a real source does not get published, whatever produced it.
Keeping pages current
Specifications change when a manufacturer republishes a data sheet, and model ranges change more often than that. Every model page carries the source document and the date it was read, so you can see how current a figure is rather than having to trust that it is. Guides carry a last-updated date and are revised when the underlying regulation, standard or data changes — not on a schedule, because a page that has not needed to change should not be given a fresh date to look active.
Corrections
If something here is wrong we want to fix it, and we would rather hear about it from you than leave it standing. What counts as an error, how to report one, what we do with it and how quickly are all set out on the corrections page.
Feedback
Questions about how something was researched, requests for a model or manufacturer we have not covered, or a disagreement with a judgement we have made: use the contact page. We read everything sent there.