As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
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 machine. Other kinds of equipment in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment buyers will quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With models which 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, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain lift truck market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this type of equipment is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces lots of different lines of lift equipment and a whole variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units offer lifting capacities varying 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 larger and more complex equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.