As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per machinery. Other machinery within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine buyers will rapidly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which rely on 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, as soon as the machine 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 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 telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega makes lots of different lines of lift machines and a whole array of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These units provide lifting capacities ranging 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 do this job. The bigger and more complex machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.