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 decade. Currently, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per machine. Other kinds of machinery 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 actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With models that depend upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, when the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific type of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's job 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 that provides a complete range of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast units. These units offer lifting capacities that vary 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 larger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.