Even after the rise and explosion of telehandlers on the material handling industry, rough terrain lift trucks and vertical mast lift trucks could be found lifting and moving different items and materials on jobsites around the world. There have been many other traditional lift trucks which lost market share to telehandlers. This happened especially when the challenger broke onto the construction scene. Since that time, sales numbers have stabilized. Vertical-mast forklifts have re-surfaced and seem to be becoming more popular once more because of their greater production, lower cost and alteration of certain telehandler-like features.
Straight-mast equipment would finish double the work which a telehandler would do due to their ground speed and maneuverability. Interestingly enough, rental companies are starting to charge higher rates on straight-mast units.
Rental buyers are having major influence within the rough-terrain forklift industry. More than 50 percent of all vertical-mast forklifts are now being sold to a rental yard. These purchases are normally driven mainly by utilization, that is a factor closely followed by acquisition price.
The telehandler has become an extremely popular machinery within the material handling business. Their popularity has given them a better advantage in terms of rental use. Their overall expansion has been moderated by their higher price. There is several lift truck users who feel that telehandlers are not practically as useful compared to traditional rough-terrain forklifts for unloading and loading repetitive jobs. This means that even if competition among telehandler marketers has lowered their prices, a lot choose the RT forklifts that have been working well for decades.
In comparison, the telehandler is ganglier, a little slower to operate and needs a higher level of skillfulness to complete the job. On the upside, they get the reach if they need it. There would continuously be a place within the business for forklifts however, because there are locations that you can not access with a telehandler.
The rough-terrain lift truck is compact, small and able to lift a heavier load vertically as opposed to the telehandler. Essentially, so as to use the best machinery for your application, you should determine what jobs exactly you will be accomplishing, the type of conditions and environment you will be operating in and what your load capacity is. All these factors will help you decide what the right alternatives available are.