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. Presently, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For example, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other machinery within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers would quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models which rely on diesel fuel, hourly costs 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 work space of the customer, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this type of equipment is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces lots of different lines of lift equipment and a whole variety of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of bigger vertical-mast units. These units offer lifting capacities varying 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 made to complete this job. The larger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.