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 past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
For instance, 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 equipment within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machinery would rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
With units which depend upon diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, as soon as the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific type of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega makes many different lines of lift machinery and a whole variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These models offer lifting capacities ranging 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 developed to complete this job. The more complex and larger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.