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 last ten years. Presently, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These models for example provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to roughly $46,000 per equipment. Other kinds of equipment in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of equipment would quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
With units that depend on diesel fuel, hourly costs 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, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the last decade, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer which provides a complete variety of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of larger vertical-mast models. These models offer lifting capacities ranging 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 bigger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.