As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
Like for example, units that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other types of machines within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers would rapidly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With models which depend upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular kind of machine is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega makes many different lines of lift machines and a complete range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units offer lifting capacities varying from 8000 pounds all the way up to 20,000 pounds. The next step was to enable lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was made to do this task. The more complex and larger machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.