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 past 10 years. Presently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
For example, units that offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit over $46,000. Other kinds of machines within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers would rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit machines have risen to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past ten years, the rough terrain lift truck market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific kind of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line manufacturer that offers a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting 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 allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to do this task. The bigger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.