As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for example provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machinery. Other kinds of equipment in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machinery will rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With units that rely upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the client's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
Over the past ten 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 particular type of machine 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 maker which provides a complete variety of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These units provide lifting capacities that vary 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 more complex and bigger machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.