While bucket truck operators should have received training before going out on a job, everyone could use a reminder of the tips for safely operating an aerial lift, more commonly known as a bucket truck. This includes administrative workers, company executives, and owners. Fatalities may happen because of electrocution, falls, tip-overs and collapses. Employers are…
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Sometimes accessories for trucks are extras that make life more bearable. However, if it’s an accessory for a work truck, it could make life safer and make your job easier. Drake-Scruggs has several accessories to accomplish ease and safety on a job. Whether you have an older fleet you want to upgrade or you are…
Staying safe in a bucket truck when the weather is perfect is hard enough, never mind when the weather is cold and nasty. And icy. Extra precautions should be taken when you are working with bucket trucks – and you will most likely have a lot of work when winter storms start knocking power out….
Before digger derricks became common in the 1950s, linemen had to dig holes by hand and lift the poles with ropes and muscles. Leroy C. Lindquist, the owner of Minnetonka Manufacturing Co.