As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for instance provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machinery. Other types of machinery within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machines would rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel unit equipment have risen to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past decade, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific kind of machine is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer who provides a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These models offer lifting capacities which vary 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 complete this task. The more complex and bigger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.