Straight mast lift trucks have emerged with the market for rough terrain lift tricks. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past ten years. Presently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
For instance, units that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other machinery in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of equipment would rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With units that depend upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past ten years, 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 specific kind of equipment is evolving to. The job 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.
The company Omega makes a lot of different lines of lift machinery and a complete variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These models offer 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 larger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.