Crane Business

Several months ago I got an email from Michael Andrew Wilson. He read my Little Red Book of Selling and Little Black Book of Connections, loved them, and wrote to tell me about it. Very nice compliment, with one notable addition. Michael lives in Paris, France. He moved from Newport, Rhode Island, to Paris in 1989.

Terex Cranes, Zweibrücken, Germany, will be exhibiting seven cranes at ConExpo 2011, including three new boom truck and truck crane models designed for the specific needs of North American customers.

A new vehicle purchasing plan which will save up to 60,000 liters of fuel per year.

You may know that line from the infamous sales movie Glengarry Glen Ross where Alex Baldwin plays himself. It’s a throwback sales training line from the 1960’s that manifested itself all the way to the ’80s. The problem with that line is that some people are still using it.

Eleven crane operators providing U.S. government-contracted services in Afghanistan supporting U.S. Armed Forces earned Mobile Crane Operator certifications from the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) last August, thanks to training and testing services provided by National Crane Training, a division of OSTS Inc.

Do you love sales? Do you love what you do? Do you love your product? Do you love your company? Do you love your customers? These are not questions I pulled out of the air. These are questions that directly affect your productivity, your attitude, your income, your success, and your fulfillment-not to mention your longevity at your present job.

Irish based international lifting and wind power specialist McNally/Windhoist has taken delivery of a 750 tonne Liebherr LG1750 lattice boomed truck mounted crane.The new crane travelled form the manufacturers Ehingen plant this week directly to its first contract in France where it will be used to erect a number of wind turbines.

It got more than 100 “re-tweets.” Evidently people understood what I was saying and chose to tell others. But since Twitter only allows 140 characters, I wanted to elaborate on the word resilience because it has a much deeper meaning than I was able to provide in one tweet.

Yukon Energy wants to significantly expand its capacity for wind generation by installing a wind farm in central Yukon that could potentially produce as much energy as the Whitehorse hydro dam in winter.

A new 150-ton 238 HSL crawler crane, to be seen for the first time at ConExpo/Con-Agg in Las Vegas, Nev., March 22-26, 2011. The crane replaces Link-Belt’s 238 Hylab 5 in the company’s product line and joins three other HSL models—138, 218 and 298 HSL.