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 ten years. Now, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
For example, models that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other machines in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machinery will quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel unit machines have risen to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the past decade in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. 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 continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer who provides a complete range of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of larger vertical-mast units. These models offer lifting capacities varying 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 bigger and more complex machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.