Straight mast lift trucks have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the last decade. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These models for example provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per equipment. Other machines within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine buyers would quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With units that 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 machinery has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing 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 that offers a whole range of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of larger vertical-mast models. These models provide 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 machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.