As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the need for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
Like for instance, models which 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. Machine purchasers will quickly 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, when the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off rapidly over the last decade in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular kind of machine 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.
The manufacturer Omega makes many 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 models. These units offer lifting capacities which range 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 do this task. The more complex and bigger equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.