Even after the rise and explosion of telehandlers on the material handling market, rough terrain forklifts and vertical mast forklifts could be found lifting and transporting various goods and supplies on jobsites all around the world. There have been numerous other traditional lift trucks that lost market share to telehandlers. This happened especially when the competition broke onto the construction scene. Ever since that time, sales numbers have stabilized. Vertical-mast lift trucks have re-surfaced and seem to be becoming more popular once more due to their greater production, lower cost and adaptation of certain telehandler-like features.
The straight mast lift truck could finish twice the work as a telehandler due to their superior maneuverability and handling in addition to their better ground speed. Interestingly enough, rental outfits are starting to charge higher rates on straight-mast units.
In the rough-terrain forklift business, rental purchasers have been having a greater influence. More than 50 percent of all vertical-mast forklifts are now being sold to a rental yard. These purchases are usually driven mostly by utilization, that is a factor closely followed by purchase price.
The telehandler has become a very popular machinery within the material handling industry. Their popularity has given them a super advantage when it comes to rental use. Their overall expansion has been moderated by their higher price. There is several lift truck users who feel that telehandlers are not nearly as productive compared to conventional rough-terrain lift trucks for loading and unloading repetitive jobs. This means that although competition among telehandler marketers has lowered their prices, many prefer the RT lift trucks that have been working well for decades.
In comparison, the telehandler is ganglier, a little slower to operate and needs a higher level of skill to finish the job. On the upside, they get the reach if they need it. There would continuously be a place within the business for forklifts however, because there are locations which you can not access with a telehandler.
Rough terrain lift trucks are usually compact equipment, smaller but more able to carry a heavier load vertically as opposed to the telehandler. Essentially, in order to use the best machinery for your application, you should determine what jobs precisely you will be completing, the kind of setting and circumstances you will be operating in and what your load capacity is. All these factors would help you choose what the right alternatives available are.