As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the need for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
Like for instance, models which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other kinds of machines in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment buyers would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment have risen 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 equipment has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this particular type of machine is evolving to. The task 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 complete array of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These units offer lifting capacities ranging 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 complete this task. The larger and more complex machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.