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 thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These models for instance provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to roughly $46,000 per machinery. 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. Purchasers of machinery will quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machinery have risen 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 machinery has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega produces many different lines of lift machines and a whole variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of 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 allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was made to do this task. The bigger and more complex machines required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.