Sims Crane Deploys Cranes Across Florida for Irma Recovery and Power Restoration
Sims Crane and Equipment, a leading Florida crane and equipment rental provider, has more than 80 cranes deployed across the state and has more cranes in reserve to assist with Hurricane Irma recovery efforts.
Aerial view of Saratoga Fairgrounds where Sims cranes are set to deploy for use in recovery and power restoration work.
Sims Crane and Equipment, a leading Florida crane and equipment rental provider, has more than 80 cranes deployed across the state and has more cranes in reserve to assist with Hurricane Irma recovery efforts. Sims Crane is working with various power companies throughout Florida in counties that were hit the hardest by Irme including Broward, Miami-Dade, Pinellas, Lee and Duval counties.
Dean Sims II, Sims Crane vice president of marketing, said that the company reserved a block of crane specifically for disaster relief and that they are being used primarily in power restoration, cell tower repair and replacement, and the clearing of downed trees and other debris.
“We prioritized our cranes for power and utility work to help get people’s homes up and running with electricity,” said Sims. “With millions of Floridians still without power, we want to make our cranes available for this massive power restoration effort.”
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.
