As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the need for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These models for example provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to roughly $46,000 per machinery. Other equipment in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine buyers would quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel unit equipment have risen to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the last ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular type of machine is evolving to. The task 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 maker who offers a complete array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of bigger vertical-mast models. These units 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 task. The larger and more complex machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.