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 past 10 years. Now, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for example, 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 machinery within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine purchasers would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With models which depend 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, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific kind of equipment is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer who provides a whole array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These units provide 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 complete this task. The more complex and bigger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.