September 26 , 2007	Vol. 4, Issue 19

Register now for the Lift and Access Telehandler & Boom Lift Showcase! This year's Showcase will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2007, at the Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix, Ariz. All current boom lift and telehandler providers will have machines on hand for the four-day event! Vendor registration is now being accepted.

Contact Becky Grazier for registration information at 800-231-8953 or bgrazier@maxcapmedia.com. Click here to find out more.

Eagle West Named Distributor for San Marco International

Brian Homeyer, Eagle West Cranes CFO, Antonio Cerutti, San Marco president and CEO, and Gerry Wiebe, Eagle West Equipment vice president, recently signed the San Marco/Eagle West North American exclusive supply agreement.

September 26, 2007 - Abbotsford, British Columbia-based Eagle West™ Equipment Inc. (formally Koenig Cranes North America™), a master distributor in North America for Koenig mechanical self-erecting tower cranes and Wilbert™ tower cranes, has announced that it has signed an agreement to become the North American distributor for San Marco™ International SLR.

San Marco™ International SLR,. based in Borgomanero, Italy, manufactures a complete line of hydraulic self-erecting tower cranes, city cranes and tower cranes and is currently producing between 400 and 500 cranes per year. Its product line includes 16 models of hydraulic self-erecting cranes (SMH series), 10 models of city cranes (SMT series), and five models of tower crane (SMTTH series)...Read Full Story

Genie Unveils Online Train-the-Trainer Program

'Old Faithfuls' Get the Job Done for Balfour Beatty Infrastructure

MLE's Full Line of Boom and Scissor Lifts Now EX Certified

Link-Belt Unveils New 138 HSL Crawler

Lift and Access to Honor the Industry's People of Distinction

Filling the Void
Experienced operators, more training needed to reduce crane industry shortfall.
By Tracy Bennett

..	Tracy Bennett

September 26, 2007 - It's a sad paradox during these times when it is so hard to get your hands on iron, to actually have new cranes sitting in your yard, but have no operators to run them. That's just one of the issues crane owners were talking about last week in Kansas City, Mo., at the SC&RA's Crane & Rigging Workshop.

For as long as I've been writing about this industry there has been a shortage of qualified technicians, but the inability to find operators is a more recent development. The problem is partially due to more people leaving the industry than are entering it. An article by Mark Avera, posted this summer on TopBuildingJobs.com, draws on statistics from several sources to explain this trend. He highlights crane operation specifically as the barometer for construction as a whole...Read Full Story

More Delays for Revised Crane and Derrick Standard

NCCCO Awarded ANSI Accreditation

On the Lookout for Problem Steel Imports

General Crane USA Hires Al Bove

Norwalk, Conn., September 2007 - Two construction workers were injured after falling from the platform of an aerial lift. According to police, the platform on the aerial lift buckled outside a house under construction, and one of the workers fell on the roof of a porch while the other fell to the ground.

Read the rest of this accident here.




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