Vertical-mast and rough-terrain lift trucks keep lifting and placing various construction supplies on different jobsites even through the evolution and rise of telehandlers on the market. There are numerous traditional-style lift trucks offered in the material handling business that lost market share to telehandlers. This occurred particularly when the challenger broke onto the construction scene. Since that time, sales numbers have become stable. Vertical-mast lift trucks have re-surfaced and seem to be becoming more popular again because of their greater productivity, alteration of certain telehandler-like features and low cost.
The straight mast forklift could finish twice the job as a telehandler because of their excellent maneuverability and handling along with their better ground speed. Interestingly enough, rental companies are starting to charge higher rates on straight-mast models.
Within the rough-terrain forklift industry, rental purchasers have been having a greater influence. Over 50 percent of all vertical-mast lift trucks are now being sold to a rental yard. These purchases are normally driven mostly by use, that is a factor closely followed by purchase price.
Within the material handling industry, the telehandler has become the darling new machinery. Its popularity has enhanced its advantage in the rental market as well. Their overall expansion has been moderated by their higher price. There is some lift truck users who feel that telehandlers are not nearly as productive compared to traditional rough-terrain forklifts for unloading and loading repetitive jobs. This means that although competition among telehandler marketers has lowered their prices, a lot choose the RT forklifts that have been performing well for decades.
In comparison, the telehandler is a little slower, ganglier to operate and requires a higher level of skillfulness to finish the task. On the upside, they get the reach if they require it. There will continuously be a place in the business for forklifts however, since there are places that you can not access with a telehandler.
The rough-terrain forklift is compact, small and could carry a heavier load vertically as opposed to the telehandler. Basically, in order to utilize the right equipment for your application, you must determine what tasks exactly you would be completing, the type of conditions and setting you would be operating in and what your load capacity is. All these factors would help you choose what the right options available are.