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 last decade. Currently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
For instance, models that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other machines in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment buyers would rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models that depend on diesel fuel, hourly expenses 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, when the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this particular type of machinery is evolving to. The job 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.
The manufacturer Omega produces many different lines of lift machinery and a whole array of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of 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 made to do this task. The larger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.