As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For example, models that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other equipment within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers will rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machinery have risen to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the purchaser, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the past decade, the rough terrain lift truck market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular type of machinery is evolving to. The task 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.
Omega is a multi-line maker that offers a complete array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These units offer lifting capacities that range 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 job. The bigger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.