As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for example offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per equipment. 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. Machine buyers will quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel unit machines have increased 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 machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off rapidly over the past ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place 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 producer that offers a complete array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. 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 larger equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.