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 last 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These models for example offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per equipment. Other machines in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of equipment will rapidly point out only if their actual expenses 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, when the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the last 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific type of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains 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, that consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These models provide 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 complete this job. The more complex and larger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.