Forklift

A forklift comprising:

• a vehicle capable of traveling on a road surface, the vehicle including a vehicle body and a pair of straddle legs extending forward from a lower part of the vehicle body and provided at an interval in a vehicle width direction;
• a cargo handling device including a mast provided between the pair of straddle legs and extending in an up-down direction, a lift bracket provided at the mast such that the lift bracket is capable of being raised and lowered, and a pair of forks extending forward from the lift bracket;
• a reach mechanism including an advance/retract drive unit capable of performing advance/retract drive in a front-back direction on each of the pair of straddle legs;
• and
• a coupling portion coupling the mast and the advance/retract drive unit, wherein
• the coupling portion includes
• a protrusion provided at one of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast and extending in the up-down direction toward the other of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast, and
• an accommodating portion provided at the other of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast and including an accommodating hole into which the protrusion is inserted from the up-down direction with a gap,
• the reach mechanism further includes a rack extending in the front-back direction along one of the straddle legs, and
• the advance/retract drive unit includes
• a carriage slidably movable in the front-back direction on the one of the straddle legs,
• a rotation drive unit fixed to the carriage and configured to be rotationally driven, and
• a pinion configured to be rotated about a vertical axis by the rotation drive unit and engaged with the rack.