As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
For example, models which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other machines within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine purchasers would rapidly point out only if their real expenses 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, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast 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 equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer that offers a whole array of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. These models offer lifting capacities varying from 8000 pounds all the way up to 20,000 pounds. The next step was to enable lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to do this task. The more complex and bigger equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.