Dustin C. Link

Owner/Operator/Program Developer

Dustin C. Link has over 2 decades of Forklift Industry experience starting in 1998 as an Electric Forklift Technician after finishing a 6-year Navy enlistment.    

To date, nearly half of Dustin’s Powered Industrial Trucks (PIT) Industry Experience is in the training and development capacity, including 2 years where he worked as a Technical Trainer with side duties of in-house forklift trainer at an oilfield equipment manufacturing company from 2006 to 2010.

Before founding Forklift Training Specialties, Dustin worked as a professional forklift trainer for the largest forklift dealer in Houston, TX providing over 800 operator certification and instructor before being promoted into Equipment Sales.

After obtaining 5 years of Capital Equipment and Industrial Battery sales experience, Dustin moved full-time into Forklift Training Specialties at the beginning of 2020.

A notable portion of the different organizations Dustin provided training for include; ExxonMobil, Nalco Champions, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Cameron, GE,  Precision Drilling, Nabors, NOV, Exel Global Logistics, Baker Hughes, BHS, Shell, Dr.Pepper, OldCastle Building Envelopes, Graham Packaging, Forum Energy Technologies, Ball Corp, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Cy-Fair ISD, Emerson, City of Houston, City of Freeport Marina, Surfside Marina, Barrett Steel, National Specialty Alloy, Continental Alloy and Services, Coleman American Moving Services, Univar, O’Neal Steel, DB Schenker, CBSL, Siemens, StarPlast-USA, Third Coast, Star Pipe Products, Mogas Industries, Valvoline, Houston Community College, and Rice University just to name a few.