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 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These units for instance offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machinery. Other kinds of equipment in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of equipment would quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machinery have risen to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of machine is evolving to. The job 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.
The manufacturer Omega produces lots of different lines of lift equipment and a whole array of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities which range 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 do this task. The larger and more complex machines required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.