As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
Like for instance, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other types of machinery within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machinery would rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models that depend upon 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, when the machinery 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 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of machine is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega produces lots of different lines of lift machinery and a whole array of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of larger vertical-mast models. These units offer lifting capacities ranging 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 required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.