As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, forklift manufactures 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 more than $46,000. Other types of machinery 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 will quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machines have risen to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the purchaser, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the past ten years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of machinery is evolving to. The task 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 producer which provides a complete array of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of larger vertical-mast units. These models provide lifting capacities that 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 complete this task. The more complex and larger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.