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 past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for instance, units that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other machines 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 would rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment have increased to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain forklift market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific type of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's task 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 manufacturer that provides a whole variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These units provide lifting capacities varying 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 job. The larger and more complex machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.