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 past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For instance, models that offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other kinds of equipment within the category's bulk class ranging 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 costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which depend on diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the purchaser, it has to produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain lift truck market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific type of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces lots of different lines of lift equipment 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 made to do this job. The larger and more complex equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.