As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for example, units that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit over $46,000. Other machines within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers will rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machines have risen to over 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 machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten 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 machine 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 manufacturer who provides a complete variety of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast units. These models offer 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 machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.