As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For instance, models which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other machinery 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 rapidly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With units that depend on 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 may not seem all that different, as soon as the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of machine is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega makes many different lines of lift machinery and a whole variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. These units offer lifting capacities that range 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 developed to do this task. The more complex and larger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.