Engine-type industrial vehicle

An engine-type industrial vehicle comprising:

• an engine;
• a power transmission configured to transmit a driving force of the engine to a driving wheel;
• at least one memory configured to store computer program code;
• and
• at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and operate as instructed by the computer program code, the at least one processor configured to execute the computer program code to adjust the driving force transmitted to the driving wheel, wherein
• the engine-type industrial vehicle includes:
• a travel direction determiner configured to determine a travel direction of the engine-type industrial vehicle based on an operation of the travel direction determiner by a driver of the engine-type industrial vehicle;
• and
• an object detector configured to detect a position of an object existing in the travel direction of the engine-type industrial vehicle,
• the power transmission is switchable between a driving force transmission state where the driving force of the engine is transmitted to the power transmission and a driving force non-transmission state where the driving force of the engine is not transmitted to the power transmission,
• the at least one processor executes the computer program code to cause a state of the engine-type industrial vehicle to be in a travel start prohibition state, when the object detector detects the object and a detection direction of the object matches the travel direction determined by the travel direction determiner, in a case where a vehicle speed of the engine-type industrial vehicle is equal to or less than a stop determination threshold, and
• the travel start prohibition state includes at least one of a state where the power transmission is in the driving force non-transmission state and a state where a braking force is applied to the engine-type industrial vehicle, and
• the at least one processor executes the computer program code to determine that a switchback operation is performed when the travel direction instructed by the travel direction determiner does not coincide with the travel direction of the engine-type industrial vehicle, and switch the power transmission to be in the driving force non-transmission state based on a determination that the switchback operation is performed.