As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
For example, models that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. 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. Buyers of machinery would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit machines have increased to over 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 work space of the purchaser, it has to produce on a large scale.
Over the past decade, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this particular kind of equipment is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces a lot of different lines of lift machines and a complete array of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line 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 complete this job. The larger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.