As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per equipment. Other types of machines in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers would rapidly point out only if their actual costs 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 may not seem all that different, when the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific kind of machine 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 manufacturer which provides a complete range of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of bigger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities ranging 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 do this task. The more complex and bigger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.