Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past decade. Currently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for instance, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other kinds of 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 rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model equipment 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, as soon as the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, 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 might just be the future that this type 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 many different lines of lift equipment and a whole array of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of bigger 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 enable lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was made to do this task. The bigger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.