As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These units for instance provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per machinery. Other machines within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment buyers would quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models which depend upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the last ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this kind of machine is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer which offers a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. These models provide 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 more complex and larger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.