As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These models for example offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per equipment. Other equipment in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machines will rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which depend on diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it needs to produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this kind of machine is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega produces lots of different lines of lift machines and a complete range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line 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 more complex and bigger machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.