Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain lift tricks. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past 10 years. Now, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These models for example offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per equipment. Other machinery within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of equipment will quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which depend upon diesel fuel, hourly costs 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 customer's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last 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 telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega makes many different lines of lift machinery and a complete range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units offer lifting capacities varying 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 do this job. The bigger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.