Spotted in Devon, men working at height on a filling station canopy with no consideration for safety
23.10.2026
Peter Juhren, COO of US tower crane and hoist rental company Morrow Equipment is retiring in December
Rental company Hugh Simpson Contractors has taken Scotland's first 450t Liebherr LTM 1400-6.1
LGMG has launched a new push around work platform, the 10ft SP0307, with a working height of 4.95m
Discover Battery has appointed Battery Shop Akita/Redresoare as its distributor for Romania
US rental company United Rentals has broken records again with nine month revenues rising almost 12%
22.10.2026
A façade scaffold collapsed earlier today in Banbury, Oxfordshire, injuring two, one of them seriously
Two people were rescued from the platform of an articulated boom lift yesterday in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Having acquired its German distribution company in May, Italian spider lift manufacturer CMC has announced plans for a European distribution hub
UK aerial lift rental company Advanced Access Platforms has appointed Tony Crawford as sales director
Turkish American aerial lift and telehandler manufacturer AXCS has appointed Shaun Byrne as northeast regional sales manager.
US' Engineered Rigging has taken delivery of a 200t Officine CLP LG202 hydraulic gantry system, the second CLP unit in the country
You may have noticed that Vertikal has been slow over the past few hours, or so, due to a major update to the widely used PHP programming language
21.10.2026
Potain has launched a new five tonne compact flat top tower crane, the MDT 99e, aimed at smaller urban job sites – a city crane, if you like
The world’s highest wind turbine was completed two weeks ago with the help of 1,350 tonne Liebherr LR 11350 crawler crane
Boels group company Cramo Norge/Norway has purchased 50 Axolift Elift 3.0 self-propelled mast lifts
Newly established UK service & repair company APSR has appointed Brian Petrie as a Palfinger service engineer
Australian rental company MCG Cranes has taken delivery of a its first Franna pick & carry crane, a 40t AT40-2 ,
20.10.2026
We have received the sad news that crane and heavy lift veteran Les Brown has died.
A man died in Austin, Texas, on Friday, October 9th, after taking a platform too close to overhead power lines
UK rental company Star Platforms has added JLG Nano 30CS and a 10ft Power Tower CS to its fleet
Austrian landscaping company FairFlair has taken delivery of an 18m BlueLift SA18HB hybrid spider lift
A man died last Wednesday evening in Houston, Texas, after contacting a power line while working on telecommunication lines
19.10.2026
German access rental company Cramer Arbeitsbühnen has taken delivery of its first Dieci telehandler, an all electric 2.6t Mini Agri-E 26.6
18.10.2026
