As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the need for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These units for instance provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per machinery. 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. Buyers of machines will rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With models that depend upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off rapidly over the past 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of equipment 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 complete variety of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of bigger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities which 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 made to complete this job. The more complex and larger machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.