As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These units for example provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to roughly $46,000 per machinery. Other kinds of machinery in the category's bulk class varying 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 actual expenses 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 might not seem all that different, when the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
Over the last 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this type of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer who provides a complete array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units 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 made to do this task. The larger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.