Straight mast lift trucks 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 10 years. Now, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
These models for instance provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per equipment. Other equipment within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers would rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment 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, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the last 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this kind of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer which provides a complete range of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These models provide lifting capacities which 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 larger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.