Straight mast lift trucks 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. Currently, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per machine. Other types of equipment in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machines will quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machinery have increased to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain forklift market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular kind of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line maker who provides a whole variety of rough-terrain forklift 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 made to complete this job. The larger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.