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 because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
For instance, units which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit over $46,000. Other 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 actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel unit machines 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, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this kind of machinery 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 manufacturer Omega produces many different lines of lift equipment and a whole variety of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities which vary 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 made to do this job. The more complex and bigger equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.