Straight mast lift trucks have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past ten years. Presently, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These units for example offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per machine. Other kinds of equipment in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of equipment would quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model equipment have increased to more than 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 must produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might 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 lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line maker that provides a whole variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of bigger 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 enable lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was made to complete this job. The larger and more complex machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.