Straight mast lift trucks have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the last ten years. Currently, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For instance, units that offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other machinery within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machinery will quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment have risen to over 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 purchaser, it must 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 type of machinery 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.
The manufacturer Omega makes a lot of different lines of lift machinery and a complete variety of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These units 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 made to complete this job. The more complex and larger equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.