As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last 10 years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These units for example provide a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machinery. Other machinery in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machines would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machinery have increased to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the purchaser, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might 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 forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega produces a lot of different lines of lift equipment and a whole variety of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These models provide lifting capacities that range 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 complete this task. The bigger and more complex machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.