Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain lift tricks. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past decade. Now, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These models for example offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per machine. 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. Equipment purchasers will rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machines 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, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain forklift market has waned due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific 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 producer which offers a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast units. These units offer 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 bigger and more complex machines required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.