As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the need for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
Like for instance, units 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 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 would quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which depend on diesel fuel, hourly costs 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 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 machinery 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 maker that offers a whole variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of bigger 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 enable lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to do this job. The bigger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.