As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the need for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
For example, models that offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit over $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. Equipment buyers will quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models that rely on 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 machinery has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the past ten years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific kind of machine 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 equipment and a complete range of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of bigger 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 enable lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to do this job. The larger and more complex equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.