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 ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machinery. 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. Purchasers of equipment would rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With models which rely 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 might not seem all that different, when the machine 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 might just be the future that this particular 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.
Omega is a multi-line maker which provides a complete variety of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of bigger 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 developed to do this task. The more complex and bigger machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.