Crane Services Buys an NBT55 Boom Truck for its Rental Fleet

Crane Services, Appleton, Wis., has obtained its second National Crane NBT55 crane during a visit to Manitowoc’s facilities in Shady Grove, Pa., the company said.

Michael Roth

June 17, 2016

From left Rick Mueller president of Crane Services Justin Pilgrim global product director for boom trucks amp carry deck cranes at Manitowoc and Leroy Kane sales specialist at Dawes Rigging amp Crane Rental with the new NBT50 crane — From left: Rick Mueller, president of Crane Services; Justin Pilgrim, global product director for boom trucks & carry deck cranes at Manitowoc; and Leroy Kane, sales specialist at Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental with the new NBT50 crane.

Crane Services, Appleton, Wis., has obtained its second National Crane NBT55 crane during a visit to Manitowoc’s facilities in Shady Grove, Pa., the company said. The 55-ton boom truck is the seventh National Crane owned by Crane Services.

“The NBT55 is extremely stable during use throughout its entire load chart,” said Rick Mueller, president of Crane Services. “It delivers great capacities like a truck crane, but it also has the comfort and highway speed of a commercial truck when out on the road.”

Crane Services also uses an NBT50 in its National Crane inventory.

The new unit has a 128-foot boom and will also come with a 26-foot to 45-foot telescoping offsettable jib, and will primarily work on residential and commercial projects throughout Wisconsin, such as steel erection and the installation of HWAC units. Crane Services bought the crane from Milwaukee-based Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental, a division of the All Family of Companies.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.