Straight mast lift trucks have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past 10 years. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For instance, models which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $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. Buyers of machinery would quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment have increased to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, as soon as the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past ten years, the rough terrain forklift market has waned due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific kind of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line manufacturer which offers a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of larger vertical-mast models. These units 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 do this job. The more complex and bigger machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.