As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
Like for example, models that offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other machinery 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 would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machinery 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, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the last decade in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific kind of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's job 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 maker that provides a whole variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These models 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 developed to do this task. The bigger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.