As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for instance provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to roughly $46,000 per machinery. Other equipment within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machinery will quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment have increased to over 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 machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off fast over the past 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's job 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.
Omega is a multi-line producer which offers a complete range of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities ranging 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 bigger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.