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24.12.2008
Altec the utility truck, crane and platform company has purchased the Lift-All division of Hydra-Tech.
23.12.2008 1
A crane operator was thrown into Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, yesterday after his crane tipped over.
23.12.2008
The operator of a truck mounted lift has been fined £6,000 following an accident in which he and another man were seriously injured.
CTE and sister company Bizzocchi have notched up two new milestones in truck mounted aerial lift production.
Multitel has supplied the first aerial work platforms mounted on Renault Maxity chassis cabs in the UK.
22.12.2008
Several of you have asked us to provide the solution to the recent spot the difference competition.
Cramo the Finnish based international rental company, has purchased Rentakran’s minority shareholding in the Cramo-Rentakran joint venture.
The Nifty on Tour programme continues but the truck is now carrying two 63ft and one 50ft boom lifts on a single trailer.
The UK Health & Safety Executive is urging construction industry leaders to take advantage of a free guide that, it says, could bring significant benefits to their business.
Two intruders at an industrial site in Melbourne, Australia, were thrown out of a lift they were stealing and are in Hospital.
A number of vehicle mounted lifts from the Market Harborough area are being offered for sale on Ebay.
21.12.2008
The boom of a mobile lattice crane collapsed yesterday while erecting steel on a site in North Raleigh, North Carolina.
20.12.2008
Terry D. Growcock, chairman of the board of Manitowoc has announced his intention to retire at the end of the year.
19.12.2008
Tim Whiteman, managing director of IPAF, has been appointed chairman of the Basel Chapter of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce.
Two men painting an apartment building in Richmond, New South Wales were thrown from their truck mounted lift after it lost stability.
18.12.2008
Ramirent, the Finnish based international rental company has issued a bulletin this morning saying that it will cut 600 jobs as it expects revenues to fall in 2009.
An 86ft boom lift helps raise awareness and funds for autism in Indiana
17.12.2008
This one is a real classic it is quite extraordinary what solutions people will find for working at height.
Hiab has won an order for 95 of its loader cranes and cargo bodies from the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, for delivery in 2009.
The OpenView Group of Romford, Essex in the UK has taken delivery of a number of CTE Z19 articulated boom truck mounted lifts.
MEC is preparing to ship the first production units in its new ’91 series’ of electric powered Rough Terrain scissor lifts.
16.12.2008
Manitowoc Cranes has warned that the number 79A boom tops on 32 units of its Model 18000 crawler cranes must be inspected before further use.
Technically Death Wish 43 this one has seasonal touch to it, hopefully this man will be around for the celebrations
