As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These units for example provide a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to about $46,000 per machinery. Other kinds of equipment within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of machinery will quickly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
With models which rely on diesel fuel, hourly expenses 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, when the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the past 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this particular kind of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer that provides a complete array of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities which vary 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 job. The bigger and more complex equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.