As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for instance, units that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit over $46,000. Other machines in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machinery will quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models which depend on diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the purchaser, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain forklift market has waned due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may 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 produces a lot of different lines of lift machinery and a complete range of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These models provide 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 made to complete this job. The more complex and bigger machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.