Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the last ten years. Now, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These units for instance provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per equipment. Other types of equipment 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 machines will quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which rely on diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the past decade 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 task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces lots of different lines of lift machinery and a whole array of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These units offer lifting capacities that range 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 made to do this job. The more complex and bigger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.