Truck Cranes Dismantled Machines

About Truck Cranes

Truck cranes are wheeled mobile construction vehicles that feature a prominent boom crane used to lift, lower, and transport materials around a construction site. Unlike boom trucks, which are crane units mounted to a trailer or commercial truck’s chassis, truck cranes are purpose-built, self-propelled transports. Truck cranes also differ from all-terrain or rough-terrain mobile cranes, which are able to work in harsher environments than the hard, flat surfaces where truck cranes thrive.

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Grove TMS9000E Telescopic Boom Truck Crane

Mobility Advantages

The mobility and maneuverability of truck cranes allows the vehicles to drive to construction sites and handle heavy loads in confined urban areas, including destinations where the truck crane must travel on a highway. Truck cranes are often able transport their own counterweights on the carrier. Modular counterweights are often available to let operators add or remove weight as needed to best match legal transport and lifting requirements.

Types Of Truck Cranes

Truck cranes typically come in two types: telescopic boom truck cranes with a hydraulic telescoping boom and lattice boom truck cranes with a fixed-length boom and a folding jib. The powerful hydraulic cylinder on a telescopic boom truck allows the boom to extend or retract; their ease of setup and adaptability makes telescopic boom trucks a popular choice in construction, power and electricity, and various municipal applications. Lattice boom truck cranes are often used in situations where a mobile crane would need to handle particularly heavy loads at taller working heights, such as telecommunications towers or wind turbines, or jobs that require a longer working reach than is offered by a telescopic boom truck crane.

Find The Right Truck Crane

Like other types of mobile cranes, truck cranes require outriggers for added stability when working with large, heavy payloads. Load and lifting charts vary widely across the truck crane market; smaller truck cranes generally lift in the 30- to 50-ton (27- to 45-metric-ton) range, while larger, more powerful truck cranes can lift 120 t (109 mt) or more. Lifting height and working radius also vary. To extend the reach of telescopic boom truck cranes, additional jib lengths and lattice extensions are an option, and lattice truck crane booms can also be shortened or lengthened with lattice extensions.

Grove (manufacturer of the TMS700 and TMS800 telescopic boom truck series) and Link-Belt (manufacturer of the HTC-8690 telescopic boom truck) are just a couple of the popular manufacturers of truck cranes for sale on CraneTrader. American, Kato, P & H, Samsung, and Terex truck cranes are also regularly for sale on CraneTrader.