As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
Like for instance, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other types of equipment within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine purchasers will rapidly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machines have increased to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, when the machine has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the last ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this kind of equipment is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line maker that offers a whole range of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities which range 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 bigger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.