As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These models for example provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per machinery. Other machines in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machinery will quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model equipment have increased to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this particular type of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place 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 which provides a complete range of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. 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 developed to complete this job. The more complex and bigger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.