As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machine. Other machinery in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of equipment will rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With models which depend upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have risen 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 machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it needs to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off rapidly over the last 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of machinery 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.
The company Omega makes lots of different lines of lift equipment and a complete variety of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. These models offer 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 complete this job. The bigger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.