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 ten years. Now, forklift makers are focusing their product development on the lift truck's core function.
Like for example, models that offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other machinery in 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 quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which rely 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 may not seem all that different, when the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the last ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this specific type of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's task 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 maker which provides a whole range of rough-terrain lift truck families. They have established the Mega Series, which consist of bigger 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 allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was made to complete this job. The bigger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.