Straight mast forklifts 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 decade. At present, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for example provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to roughly $46,000 per equipment. Other types 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. Machine buyers would rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model equipment have increased to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it has to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the past decade in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of machine is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place 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 who provides a whole array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These units provide lifting capacities varying 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 do this job. The larger and more complex machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.