To provide a standing drive type forklift capable of safe driving operation by an operator, without causing a sense of incompatibility of an operation feeling based on a difference in the driving operation between the forklift and a general standing drive type forklift, by aiming at the standing drive type forklift for making the operator board in a standing posture in a cabin of a vehicle body having a work machine in front.

For attaining the purpose, this standing drive type forklift is characterized in that a steering wheel is arranged in an area operable by a left hand of the operator boarded by turning the front of the body toward the side of the vehicle body, and a travel/work machine operation part is arranged in an area operable by a right hand of the operator, and a brake pedal is also arranged in an area operable by a left foot of the operator.