As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These units for example offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per equipment. Other types of machinery within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine purchasers would rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit equipment 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, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the purchaser, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the last 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular 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 remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer who offers a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of larger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities ranging 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 made to do this task. The bigger and more complex machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.