As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the demand for straight mast lift trucks. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past 10 years thanks to explosion of telescopic handlers. At present, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
For example, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other types of machinery in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Buyers of machines would quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
With models 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 may not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift 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 kind of machine is evolving to. The task of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck 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 variety of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These models offer lifting capacities ranging 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 complete this task. The more complex and bigger machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.