As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for example, models which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other kinds of machinery in 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 rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machinery 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, when the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it needs to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off rapidly over the past ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces lots of different lines of lift machinery and a whole array of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These models offer lifting capacities that vary from 8000 pounds all the way up to 20,000 pounds. The next step was to allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was made to do this task. The larger and more complex equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.