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 last 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These units for example provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per machinery. Other types of machines within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machines would rapidly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which depend on 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, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific kind of machinery is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega makes many different lines of lift machines and a complete range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These units provide lifting capacities ranging 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 complete this job. The more complex and bigger machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.