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Forklifts are typically heavier than cars, easier to tip, come with piercing forks and, are operated in pedestrian heavy areas much more frequently. You can be certified a lot quicker and easier than it takes to get a driver's license, and typically you won't be the one registering and insuring the equipment. And that's just one specific type of heavy equipment.
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Forklifts are often operated inside warehouses, backrooms, and behind stores and in store parking lots. Cars don't drive there, but employees, vendors, inspectors and customers walk in these areas. I've yet to see a forklift on a highway or high traffic road. Which is why forklift operators have spotters.
So they're saying that it should be easier to be given a driver's license? I was forklift certified in a couple hours in a day. I had to drive for many hours over the course of a year before I was allowed to drive solo in a vehicle.
Plus I've never had to have an eye exam to be certified on a forklift.
The point they think they're making and the point they're actually making are two different things.