A boom truck travelling down Interstate highway I-35 near Dallas Texas smashed a hole in an overpass, take a look at the blow by blow recovery.
25.06.2007
Mec Aerials has appointed Titan Equipment as its sole dealer for much of Michigan
24.06.2007
JLG dealer ProAer has appointed Jim Souders as a Vice President.
22.06.2007
An inspection has confirmed that six slew ring bolts were missing on the truck mounted boom lift that collapsed last month in Othello.
A 53 year old employee of Tenix Alliance was electrocuted while working on power lines in New Plymouth, New Zealand earlier this week.
Analysts are predicting that that Ingersoll Rand will become a prime target after it sheds its Bobcat business.
A second crane accident in two days in the Salt Lake City has triggered politicians to politicians to demand compulsory operator certification.
Euroloc, the Spanish based rental company has acquired Gruas Homs a Catalalonian based rental business
21.06.2007
Pop-Up Products is celebrating the sale of its 1,500th Pop-Up scissor lift.
Nordic Heavy Lift subsidiary Avonway has ordered a crane vessel with a 5,000 tonne single mast lifting capacity.
A truck mounted access platform toppled over in Clifton Moor (UK) yesterday after one of its outriggers sank into the pavement.
The world's largest crane rental company Maxim Crane Works has elected a new chairman.
A truck crane tipped and crashed into a home in Utah, USA.
20.06.2007
The operator of a mobile 'city' crane was fortunate to escape unhurt after the crane he was driving toppled over.
Lavendon, has released a preliminary half year trading statement confirming that revenues for the first half are likely to be up by over 48%
Port Services (Invergordon) has invested over £3 million in recent months on two new large mobile cranes.
19.06.2007
SafeWorks has promoted John Purtle to the newly created position of training manager
Manitou has made four new dealer appointments in the UK in Devon and Cornwall, the East Midlands and East Anglia.
UpRight Powered Access has appointed Martin Connolly as international sales manager.
John Spillings has joined Scottish heavy lift specialist Port Services (Invergordon) as sales director.
We reported last week on a fatal aerial lift accident at Port Headland Australia, we now know that the cause was a rare slew ring failure.
An accident in April that we missed occurred at the Dubai Marina, when water flooded into the foundation excavations of the Infinity tower.
18.06.2007
The counterweight of a mobile crane at Newcastle’s Hancock Museum fell to the ground yesterday seriously injuring a mans legs.
The first Alimak ‘After sales academy’ was held at the end of May in Sweden
