Straight mast lift trucks have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the last decade. Currently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These models for instance offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to approximately $46,000 per equipment. Other kinds of machines within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of equipment will rapidly point out only if their actual expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models that depend upon 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 may 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.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the past 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this specific kind of equipment is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces a lot of different lines of lift machines and a whole array of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of bigger vertical-mast units. These models offer lifting capacities that range 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 made to do this task. The more complex and larger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.