As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These units for instance provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per equipment. Other kinds of machinery in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment buyers would rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With units which rely upon diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it needs to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck 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 type of equipment is evolving to. The task 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 manufacturer Omega makes many different lines of lift equipment and a complete range of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These models offer lifting capacities that 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 job. The more complex and larger equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.