Operated crane service means ON-SITE supplies the crane and a certified operator together, on your job, under one contract. We run eight crane classes from a 25-ton boom truck to a 120-ton all-terrain out of our yard in north Phoenix, with rigging, the lift plan and the insurance paperwork handled.
8
Crane classes
120
Ton max capacity
4:30
AM dispatch, 6 days
Own
Haul trucks
10%
Whatever you are paying for the equivalent crane today, we go 10% under it going forward. Not an introductory rate that quietly resets. Send the invoice, or if you do not have one handy, tell us the lift and we will quote it against the market and apply the discount anyway.
Or just tell us the lift and we will size it for you.
When a crane does not show, nothing else on the schedule matters. The crew stands on the clock, the pour moves, and the trades stacked behind you move too. These are the people who call us so that does not happen.
General contractors
Setting steel, precast, tanks and structural members on a schedule that cannot slip.
Mechanical and HVAC
Rooftop units, chillers and cooling towers, often over an occupied building.
Solar and utility crews
Pole and array work across unimproved ground where a rough terrain earns its keep.
Sign and glazing
Short precise sets where the boom truck beats mobilizing anything larger.
Plant and facility maintenance
Equipment swaps and shutdown work with a hard window to hit.
Anyone whose crane just went down
Mid-pour, mid-set, mid-schedule. That is emergency work and it moves to the front.
Every class we run, from the yard on 16th Street. Swipe through, or open any machine for specs.
You are hiring a lift, not a machine. The pieces that normally get subcontracted separately arrive as one line of responsibility.
A certified operator
Confirmed before the machine moves. You are not sourcing one per job.
Rigging included
Blocks, spreader bar, slings and crane mats as the pick actually needs.
The lift plan drawn
For your load, your radius and your ground, not a generic chart.
COI verified before release
Insurance is checked on our side, every job, before iron leaves the yard.
Delivered on our own trucks
The haul is not a third company for you to chase and schedule.
Photo walk-around
Condition recorded at drop and pick-up, so damage never becomes an argument.
Four steps, and the only one that needs you is the first.
Tell us the lift
What it weighs, how far the crane has to reach, and what the ground is like.
We size it and quote
Usually the same day. If a smaller class does the job, we say so.
COI and agreement
Send your certificate, sign from your phone. No paperwork run to the office.
We deliver and lift
On our own haul trucks, with a photo walk-around at both ends.
Most Phoenix contractors rent the excavator from one company and the crane from another, then coordinate a third for the haul.
One yard, both tiers
Cranes and earthmoving out of the same yard on 16th Street. One number, one invoice.
We own the iron
The national platforms broker other yards’ equipment. Our fleet sits on our lot, so availability is a fact we can check rather than a request we pass along.
Our own haul fleet
Tri-axle tractors, a 75-ton lowboy and flatbeds. Delivery is ours to schedule, not a subcontractor’s.
We start before you do
Dispatch runs from 4:30am, six days a week, because concrete and steel do not wait for business hours.
No surprise line items
No fuel surcharge, no counterweight fee. Big lifts are quoted as separate visible lines you can actually check.
We will beat your current rate
Send the invoice you pay today and we go 10% under it going forward. Not a teaser.
We quote per job rather than publishing a rate card, because the same crane can cost very differently on two jobs. These are the variables that move the number, so you can sanity-check any quote you receive, including ours.
Crane class
Capacity is the biggest single driver. Right-sizing matters: an oversized crane costs more and mobilizes slower.
Time on the clock
Operated work bills portal to portal against an hourly minimum, so travel from the yard counts.
Rigging and crew
A rigger or signal person is added per man when the pick needs one.
Mobilization
Distance from north Phoenix, plus support truck and lowboy on the larger classes.
Site conditions
Ground bearing, access and whether mats are needed all change setup time.
Permits and closures
Street or lane closure work adds coordination that belongs on the quote, not as a surprise.
10%
No rate card here on purpose. Send us the invoice you pay today and we will go 10% under it going forward.
Beat my rateWorth knowing what you are actually choosing between.
Call a national platform
Hire the pieces separately
ON-SITE operated service
The yard is at 21815 N 16th St in north Phoenix. Mobilization is quoted from there, so the closer the job, the cheaper the move.
Most of our work is metro Phoenix, where mobilization is short and we can often go same day. For larger jobs we run statewide across Arizona, and we mobilize into neighboring states when a project justifies the move.
Metro cities we run to most
Capacity ratings describe a crane at its shortest radius, not at your load. The number that matters is what the crane can pick at the distance it has to reach, which is why two jobs of the same weight can need very different machines.
Tell us the weight, the reach and the ground, and we size it. If a smaller class does the job we will tell you, because sending more crane than the lift needs costs you money and mobilization time.
One 120-ton all-terrain and two 100-ton crawlers in the fleet. The big classes book out first, so the earlier you tell us the date, the better the odds we can hold it.
| Class | Capacity | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Boom truck | 25 ton | Roof units, signage, short set work with road mobility |
| Truck crane | 40 to 60 ton | Steel setting and mechanical work on paved access |
| Rough terrain | 50 to 80 ton | Unimproved ground, pads, tight jobsite access |
| All terrain | 120 ton | The heavy end: long radius picks and tall sets |
| Lattice crawler | 100 ton | Sustained heavy lifting and duty cycle work |
The 120-ton all-terrain always dispatches with a counterweight support truck and lowboy. That is not optional on a machine this size, and it appears as its own line on your quote rather than hidden in the crane rate.
Cranes bill as an operated service with an hourly minimum, portal to portal, which means the clock runs from the yard and back rather than only while the crane is on your pad.
A rigger or signal person can be added per man when the pick calls for it. Large lattice and big-iron jobs are quoted as clean separate line items, so erection, dismantle, mobilization and the crane itself are each visible rather than rolled into one number you cannot check.
Yes. If you have your own certified operator, the same cranes are available bare. You take on the operator, the rigging and the lift plan, and we deliver the machine.
Most contractors take the operated option because operator certification, rigging gear and the lift plan are the parts that are awkward to source per job. But the choice is yours and the fleet is the same either way.
If your unit goes down mid-pour, mid-set or mid-schedule, we run a replacement from whatever is available in the yard rather than telling you to reschedule the pour. Large equipment on call: we have it, or we get it.
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