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 ten years. Presently, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machinery. Other types of equipment 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 rapidly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With models which rely on diesel fuel, hourly expenses 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 machine has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the past 10 years 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 company Omega makes many different lines of lift machines and a whole variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast models. These units provide lifting capacities that range 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 like Omega become.