As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Currently, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For instance, units which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit over $46,000. 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. Equipment buyers will rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With units that depend on 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, as soon as the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific type of equipment 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.
Omega is a multi-line maker that offers a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting 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 enable lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to complete this task. The larger and more complex machines required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.