Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past decade. Now, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for instance, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other types of machinery in 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 real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment have risen 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 equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the purchaser, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off fast over the past decade in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific kind of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega produces a lot of different lines of lift machines and a complete variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These units offer lifting capacities that vary 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 task. The bigger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.