As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These units for instance provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to roughly $46,000 per equipment. Other kinds of equipment within the category's bulk class ranging 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 expenses are up ever so slightly.
With units that rely upon diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain lift truck market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular type of equipment is evolving to. The job 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.
The company Omega makes a lot of different lines of lift machines and a whole range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These models provide lifting capacities that 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 developed to complete this task. The more complex and larger machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.