As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per equipment. Other types of machines in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine buyers will quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With models which rely on diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have increased 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 client's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain lift truck 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 machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's task 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 manufacturer that provides a whole array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast models. 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 task. The larger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.