Rough-terrain and vertical-mast lift trucks keep picking up and positioning various building materials on different jobsites even through the evolution and rise of telehandlers on the market. There are lots of conventional-style forklifts existing in the material handling market that lost market share to telehandlers. This occurred specially when the challenger broke onto the construction scene. Since that time, sales numbers have become stable. Vertical-mast lift trucks have re-surfaced and seem to be becoming more popular once more thanks to their greater efficiency, adaptation of some telehandler-like features and low cost.
The straight mast forklift could finish double the work as a telehandler because of their excellent handling and maneuverability in combination with their better ground speed. Fascinatingly enough, rental companies are starting to charge higher rates on straight-mast units.
Rental buyers are having major influence within the rough-terrain lift truck business. Over 50 percent of all vertical-mast lift trucks are currently being sold to a rental yard. These purchases are usually driven mostly by utilization, that is a factor closely followed by purchase price.
The telehandler has become a very common machinery in the material handling business. Their popularity has given them a super advantage when it comes to rental utilization. Their overall expansion has been moderated by their higher price. There is several lift truck users who feel that telehandlers are not nearly as useful compared to traditional rough-terrain lift trucks for loading and unloading repetitive jobs. This means that although competition amongst telehandler marketers has lowered their prices, a lot prefer the RT forklifts which have been performing well for decades.
In comparison, the telehandler is ganglier, a little slower to operate and needs a higher level of skill to complete the job. On the upside, they get the reach if they require it. There would continuously be a place within the industry for forklifts though, as there are locations which you can not access with a telehandler.
Rough terrain forklifts are normally compact machinery, smaller but more able to lift a heavier load vertically compared to the telehandler. Essentially, so as to utilize the right machine for your application, you must determine what tasks precisely you will be completing, the kind of environment and circumstances you would be operating in and what your load capacity is. All these factors will help you choose what the best alternatives available are.