Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain lift tricks. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the last decade. At present, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These units for example provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machinery. 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 actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machinery have increased to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the last ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular kind of machine is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega produces a lot of different lines of lift equipment and a whole variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units offer 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 complete this task. The bigger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.