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 last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These units for instance offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per equipment. Other machinery 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 equipment would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which rely upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses 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 machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the past 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 kind of machinery is evolving to. The task 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 maker who offers a whole variety of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of larger vertical-mast units. These models 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 complete this task. The more complex and bigger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.