Straight mast lift trucks have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the last ten years. Presently, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These models for instance provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per machinery. Other kinds of equipment in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machinery will quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With units that rely 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 might not seem all that different, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has waned due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific type of equipment is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place 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 which offers a whole array of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These units offer lifting capacities that range 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 more complex and larger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.