Abstract: A lifting fork positioning system to guide movement of a lifting vehicle to properly position one or more lifting forks thereof relative to a pallet may include a sensor device to be mounted adjacent to (and for movement with) a vertical portion of one or more lifting forks thereof to enable detection of a distance to a front face of a palletized load, and a console device to be mounted in the vicinity of manually operable controls of the lifting vehicle to present an operator thereof with an indication of the position of a front face of the palletized load relative to the one or more lifting forks, wherein a processor component of the lifting fork positioning system may employ a received indication of a zero point distance to derive the indication of the position of the front face of the palletized load that is presented to the operator.