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 past 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
For instance, units which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other machines in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machinery would quickly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machinery have risen to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the past decade, the rough terrain forklift market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific type of machine is evolving to. The telehandler's task 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.
Omega is a multi-line producer that offers a complete array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of larger vertical-mast units. These units offer lifting capacities varying 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 made to do this task. The bigger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.