As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For instance, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other 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 buyers will rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit machines have increased to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, as soon as the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the last 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line manufacturer 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 units offer lifting capacities ranging 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 bigger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.