As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for example provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per equipment. Other equipment within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of equipment would rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment have risen to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has waned due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular type of machine 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 many different lines of lift machinery and a whole range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These models offer 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 more complex and larger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.