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This
article was published in the February 2024 edition of NTEA News.
NTEA’s
Telescopic Service Crane Manufacturers Group (TSCMG), formed in 2014, targets
key issues related to service cranes and helps promote more efficient work
truck builds.
Continuous
development of programs to help enhance safe and efficient use of service
cranes is a key priority for TSCMG. A recently completed initiative involves a
uniform inspection form upfitters can utilize to examine telescopic service
cranes. This project involved incorporating elements of each participating
company’s inspection form into a universal document for truck equipment
upfitters to use for service cranes.
The
group is in the process of completing work on the development of recommended
uniform parameters for load charts, with the objective of offering service
crane operators a better understanding of a uniform load chart across multiple
manufacturers.
TSCMG
also developed a definition for its product. “A service truck crane is
identified by its telescopic boom, where the base and mast structure is not
integral to the stabilizer/outrigger system. Lifting is typically accomplished
via a winch (electric or hydraulic), and its functions (rotation, elevation,
telescoping) are either powered or manual. These machines tend to have
relatively shorter boom lengths (10–35 feet) and lower capacities (1–7 tons) as
compared to other telescopic boom-fixed cab machines (e.g., boom trucks, carry
deck cranes). Additionally, operations are usually conducted by the use of
radio remote or pendant control with the operator standing on the ground
following the load.”
How
to join
Membership
is open to NTEA member companies in good standing engaged in the manufacture of
telescopic services truck cranes and/or an authorized national importer of
telescopic service truck cranes, as defined below.
- Telescopic service truck cranes have a
telescopic boom, the base and mast structure of which is not integral to the
stabilizer/outrigger system.
- Lifting is typically accomplished via
a winch (electric or hydraulic) and its functions (rotation, elevation,
telescoping) are either powered or manual.
- They typically have relatively shorter
boom lengths (10–35 feet) and lower capacities 1–7 tons) as compared to other
telescopic boom–fixed cab equipment (e.g., boom trucks cranes, carry deck
cranes).
- Crane operations are usually conducted
by use of radio remote or pendant control with the operator standing on the
ground following the load.
TSCMG
members
TSCMG
is led by Chair Glen Ashdown, Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc.; Vice Chair Nathan
Schiermeyer, Maintainer Corp. of Iowa Inc.; and Treasurer Ken Mally, RKI.
Member
companies include
- HYVA Corp. (Wood Dale, Illinois)
- Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc. (Garner,
Iowa)
- Liftmoore Inc. (Houston, Texas)
- Maintainer Corp. of Iowa Inc.
(Sheldon, Iowa)
- Maxilift Cranes USA By Next Hydraulics
(Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania)
- Omaha Standard PALFINGER, A Member of
the PALFINGER North America Group (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
- Ramsey Industries (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
- RKI Inc. (Houston, Texas)
- Service Trucks International/Tiger
Cranes (Sioux Center, Iowa)
- Stellar Industries (Garner, Iowa)
- Summit Truck Bodies LLC (Wathena,
Kansas)
- Venco Venturo Industries LLC (Cincinnati, Ohio)
For
more information or to join, email Bob Raybuck (bob@ntea.com), NTEA director of technical
services.