As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the last ten years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
For example, units that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit over $46,000. Other kinds of equipment in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of equipment would rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel model machinery have increased to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the last decade in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might 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 forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces many different lines of lift machines and a complete range of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These models 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 made to do this task. The larger and more complex machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.