Even after the rise and explosion of telehandlers on the material handling market, rough terrain lift trucks and vertical mast lift trucks can be found lifting and transporting different goods and materials on jobsites around the globe. There have been many other conventional lift trucks that lost market share to telehandlers. This occurred especially when the challenger broke onto the construction scene. Since that time, sales numbers have become stable. Vertical-mast lift trucks have re-surfaced and seem to be becoming more popular again because of their greater efficiency, adaptation of certain telehandler-like features and low cost.
Straight-mast equipment will finish twice the work which a telehandler will do because of their maneuverability and ground speed. Fascinatingly enough, rental companies are starting to charge higher rates on straight-mast units.
In the rough-terrain lift truck business, rental purchasers have been having a greater influence. More than 50 percent of all vertical-mast forklifts are presently being sold to a rental yard. These acquisitions are normally driven mostly by utilization, which is a factor closely followed by purchase price.
The telehandler has become an extremely common machine in the material handling business. Their popularity has given them a better advantage in terms of rental utilization. Their overall expansion has been moderated by their higher price. There is several forklift users who feel that telehandlers are not practically as productive as opposed to conventional rough-terrain lift trucks for loading and unloading repetitive tasks. 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.
The telehandler is a bit slower machine in comparison to a rough terrain forklift model. They are also 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 will always be a place in the business for forklifts however, as there are places which you would not be able to access with a telehandler.
Rough terrain lift trucks are usually compact machinery, smaller but more able to carry a heavier cargo vertically compared to the telehandler. Essentially, in order to utilize the right machinery for your application, you should determine what jobs precisely you will be accomplishing, the kind of conditions and setting you will be operating in and what your load capacity is. These factors will help you decide what the best options available are.