Forklifts play a very important role in the logistics system of enterprises and are the main force in material handling equipment. It is widely used in stations, ports, airports, factories, warehouses and other departments of the national economy. It is an efficient equipment for mechanized loading and unloading, stacking and short distance transportation. With the rapid development of China's economy, the material handling of most enterprises has been separated from the original manual handling and replaced by the mechanized handling mainly with forklift. Therefore, in the past few years, the demand of China's forklift market has been growing at a double-digit rate every year. This paper will focus on the functions, uses and characteristics of the CPC30t forklift with a capacity of 3 tons.