Rough-terrain and vertical-mast forklifts keep lifting and placing various construction supplies on various jobsites even through the evolution and rise of telehandlers on the market. There are a lot of traditional-style lift trucks existing within the material handling market which lost market share to telehandlers. This occurred particularly when the challenger broke onto the construction scene. Since that time, sales numbers have become stable. Vertical-mast lift trucks have re-surfaced and seem to be becoming more popular once more due to their greater efficiency, adaptation of some telehandler-like features and low cost.
The straight mast lift truck could complete twice the job as a telehandler due to their superior maneuverability and handling along with their better ground speed. Fascinatingly enough, rental outfits are starting to charge higher rates on straight-mast models.
Within the rough-terrain forklift industry, rental purchasers have been having a greater influence. Over half of all vertical-mast lift trucks are now being sold to a rental yard. These purchases are generally driven mostly by utilization, which is a factor closely followed by purchase price.
In the material handling industry, the telehandler has become the darling new machine. Its popularity has improved its benefit in the rental market too. Their overall expansion has been moderated by their higher price. There is some lift truck users who feel that telehandlers are not nearly as useful compared to traditional rough-terrain forklifts for loading and unloading repetitive jobs. This means that even if competition among telehandler marketers has lowered their prices, a lot choose the RT forklifts which have been performing well for decades.
The telehandler is a bit slower machine in comparison to a rough terrain lift truck unit. They are also ganglier to use and requires a higher level of skillfulness to finish the task. On the upside, they get the reach if they require it. There will always be a place in the business for lift trucks though, as there are locations that you could not access with a telehandler.
Rough terrain forklifts are generally compact machines, smaller but more able to lift a heavier load vertically compared to the telehandler. Basically, in order to utilize the right equipment for your application, you must determine what tasks exactly you will be completing, the type of circumstances and setting you will be operating in and what your load capacity is. All these factors will help you decide what the best options available are.