A reach truck is a specialized electric forklift used for pallet handling in narrow aisles and high-density storage areas. It is designed to place and retrieve palletized loads from racking while keeping the truck compact enough for indoor warehouse layouts.

Load capacity is the maximum weight a forklift is designed to lift and carry under a defined set of conditions. Those conditions are the whole point. A rating assumes a particular load center, a reference lift height, a standard fork and mast setup, and a load positioned correctly on the forks. Change any of those, and the weight the truck can safely handle changes with them. That is why capacity is best read as a rated value tied to a situation, rather than a single fixed number.