As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For instance, models that offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other kinds of machines within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machines would quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models which depend on diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once 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 fast over the past ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific kind of machinery is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega makes a lot of different lines of lift machinery and a whole array of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of bigger vertical-mast units. These models 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 developed to complete this job. The more complex and bigger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.