As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the need for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These models for example offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to roughly $46,000 per equipment. Other kinds of machines within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine purchasers will rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel unit machines have increased to more than 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 client, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific type of machine is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line maker who provides a whole array of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These units provide lifting capacities which 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 complete this task. The more complex and larger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.