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 past decade. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
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 in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine purchasers will quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel unit machinery 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, when the machine has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the past ten years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular kind of machine 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.
The company Omega produces many different lines of lift equipment and a complete range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. These units offer lifting capacities that vary 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 equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.