As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
For example, models which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other types of machinery within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machines will rapidly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model equipment have risen to more than 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 machinery has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off fast over the last 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this kind of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega makes lots of different lines of lift machines and a complete range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of larger vertical-mast models. 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 machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.