As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the need for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
These units for instance offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per machine. Other machines within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers would rapidly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machines have increased to over 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 client's work space, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the past 10 years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased due to the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of machine is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line manufacturer which provides a whole variety of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of larger vertical-mast models. These models provide lifting capacities that vary 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 developed to complete this task. The larger and more complex equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.