As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These units for example offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machine. Other machinery within 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 rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which 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, when the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off rapidly over the last decade in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer that provides a complete range of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of bigger 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 allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to complete this task. The larger and more complex machines required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.