newer ones with electrical/computer issues.
Speaking from my experience at a big box store this is the number one thing to avoid. We had a stand up reach truck with one of those handles that has all the controls built in, throttle (it was electric but you know what I mean), lift, sideshift, tilt, pantograph, and horn all on the handle, only thing it didn't do was steering, and that lift went through about 2 handles a year when this switch would go bad or that switch would stick or the tiny plastic supports that hold the buttons would break. But the only thing that needed replacing on the Toyota sit-down propane lift in the 5 years I was indentured there was the seat because the plastic cracked.
I understand that something similar is happening with John Deere farming equipment, apparently they claim that since everything is run by computer, and they wrote the code, under the DMCA they own the vehicle and you are buying a LICENSE to use it, and if you modify it in any way, including repairs, without their explicit written consent they will sue you for copyright infringement. The end result is everyone is buying used pre-computer equipment and they cant sell any of that shiny new farm equipment. Seems a strange way to do business to me, driving your customers away with shady and questionably legal business practices, but it must work, they keep doing it.
