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Manitowoc Cranes is a division of The Manitowoc Company, Inc.Manitowoc Cranes produces five brands of cranes: Grove, National Crane, Shuttlelift, Manitowoc, and Potain.In addition, Manitowoc has two distribution businesses based in the U.S.: Aspen Equipment and MGX Equipment Services (formerly H&E Equipment Services' crane business).
According to the company, there are over 350,000 CLARK forklift trucks currently in operation around the world. [2] CLARK is credited with having invented the world's first truck with a hydraulic lifting mechanism in 1924, an attachment to the Duat tow tractor. This internal combustion truck with hydraulic lifting mechanism became the ...
Pierce was founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierce and his son Dudley as the Pierce Auto Body Works Inc., which concentrated on building custom truck bodies for the Ford Model T. The first production facility was designed in 1917 and enlarged in 1918 by architect Wallace W. DeLong. [ 2 ]
In December 2013, VCE agreed to pay US$160m for the heavy haul truck line of U.S. manufacturer Terex, [5] Including Terex Equipment Ltd (TEL) of Scotland. [6] In December 2020, Volvo began delivering all-electric ECR25 Electric compact excavators to customers. [7] In September 2021 VCE dropped the Terex name and rebranded the business Rokbak. [8]
Miller Industries is an American tow truck and towing equipment manufacturing company based in the Chattanooga suburb of Ooltewah, Tennessee.Its primary subsidiary, Miller Industries Towing Equipment Inc., manufactures a variety of light- to heavy-duty wreckers, car carriers, and rotators under several brand names, including Century, Vulcan, Chevron, and Holmes.
Heavy equipment vehicles of various types parked near a highway construction site. Heavy equipment, heavy machinery, earthmovers, construction vehicles, or construction equipment, refers to heavy-duty vehicles specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks.
The Galion Iron Works Company of Galion, Ohio, was founded by David Charles Boyd and his three brothers in 1907.In its early years, the Galion produced a wide range of road-building and other construction equipment, such as drag scrapers, plows, wagons, stone unloaders, rock crushers, and a variety of other "experimental machines".
Factory-calculated charts (or electronic safeguards) are used by crane operators to determine the maximum safe loads for stationary (outriggered) work as well as (on-rubber) loads and travelling speeds. Truck cranes range in lifting capacity from about 14.5 short tons (12.9 long tons; 13.2 t) to about 2,240 short tons (2,000 long tons; 2,032 t).