As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
Like for instance, units that offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. 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 buyers will quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machines have risen to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned 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 continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line manufacturer that offers a complete range of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of bigger vertical-mast units. These models 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 made to complete this job. The larger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.