As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the need for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
For instance, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other kinds of machinery within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment buyers will rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model equipment have increased to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the past decade, the rough terrain lift truck market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this particular type of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega makes many different lines of lift equipment and a whole variety of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line 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 allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to complete this job. The more complex and larger machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.