Even after the rise and explosion of telehandlers on the material handling industry, rough terrain lift trucks and vertical mast lift trucks can be found picking up and moving various items and materials on jobsites all around the globe. There have been many other traditional lift trucks which lost market share to telehandlers. This happened particularly when the competition broke onto the construction scene. Ever since that time, sales numbers have stabilized. Vertical-mast lift trucks have re-surfaced and seem to be becoming more popular again because of their greater production, lower cost and alteration of some telehandler-like features.
The straight mast lift truck can complete two times the work as a telehandler because of their excellent handling and maneuverability as well as their better ground speed. Fascinatingly enough, rental companies are starting to charge higher rates on straight-mast units.
Rental purchasers are having significant influence within the rough-terrain lift truck business. Over 50 percent of all vertical-mast forklifts are currently being sold to a rental yard. These purchases are normally driven mostly by utilization, which is a factor closely followed by acquisition price.
The telehandler has become a very popular machinery in the material handling industry. Their popularity has given them a better advantage when it comes to rental utilization. Their overall expansion has been moderated by their higher price. There is several lift truck users who feel that telehandlers are not nearly as helpful as opposed to traditional rough-terrain lift trucks for unloading and loading repetitive jobs. This means that although competition amongst telehandler marketers has lowered their prices, a lot choose the RT lift trucks which have been performing well for decades.
In comparison, the telehandler is a little slower, ganglier to operate and needs a higher level of skillfulness to finish the task. On the upside, they get the reach if they need it. There would always be a place within the business for lift trucks though, since there are places that you would not be able to access with a telehandler.
The rough-terrain forklift is small, compact and can carry a heavier cargo vertically as opposed to the telehandler. Basically, so as to use the right machine for your application, you should determine what tasks precisely you will be completing, the type of circumstances and setting you would be operating in and what your load capacity is. All these factors would help you decide what the best options available are.