Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past ten years. Currently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for instance, models which 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 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 real costs are up ever so slightly.
With models that 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 work space of the customer, it has to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the past 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular type of machine is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place 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 company Omega makes many different lines of lift equipment and a complete range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. These models provide lifting capacities which vary 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 made to complete this task. The more complex and bigger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.