As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
For example, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other machinery in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of equipment would quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models that rely upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off rapidly over the last 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. 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 lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line maker that provides a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These models 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 made to do this task. The bigger and more complex machines required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.