As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These units for instance provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per machinery. Other types of machines 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 machines would quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
With units that rely upon diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when 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 due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this kind of equipment is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line maker which provides a complete array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These units offer lifting capacities that vary 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 bigger machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.