As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for instance, units which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other machinery within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine purchasers will rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit machines have risen to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain forklift market has waned due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line maker that provides a whole array of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These models provide lifting capacities that vary from 8000 pounds all the way up to 20,000 pounds. The next step was to allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to complete this task. The larger and more complex equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.