As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
For example, models that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit over $46,000. Other machines 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 equipment will quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models that depend on diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the last 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific type of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega makes many different lines of lift machinery and a complete range of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of larger vertical-mast units. These models offer lifting capacities ranging from 8000 pounds all the way up to 20,000 pounds. The next step was to allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to do this task. The more complex and bigger machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.