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APRIL-MAY 2014 ACCESS, LIFT & HANDLERS VOLUME 10 ■ ISSUE 3 A KHL Group Publication www.khl.com/alh EQUIPMENT Personal fall protection EVENTS ConExpo review APEX preview IAPA winners INTERVIEW David White Booming Manufacturers have introduced a number of new models into the market OFFICIAL NORTH AMERICAN MAGAZINE ACCESS ■ TELEHANDLERS ■ SCAFFOLDING ■ BUSINESS ■ NEWS ■ PEOPLE ALH 04-05 2014 Front Cover.indd 1 28/04/2014 12:37:09 Simply Reliable Electric Scissor Lifts Skyjack’s DC Electric Scissor range offers an easy to service low maintenance design in a compact and versatile package. Electrically powered and quiet with zero emissions, all models are capable of maneuvering in the smallest spaces. These are the world’s top selling aerial work platforms. *Key highlights include: • Low gross weight produces low fl oor loading allowing use in more areas • Clevis design on scissor provides increased rigidity and lower stress and fatigue on joints • Wide scissor stance increases stability and provides a more secure feeling with the operator • Unmatched maneuverability and compact footprint • Working heights between 21’ (6.4 m) and 38’ (11.6 m) *Some features model dependent simply reliable Vertical Mast Lifts • Electric Scissor Lifts • Rough Terrain Scissors • Articulating Booms • Telescopic Booms • Telehandlers For information call 1-800-265-2738 or visit us online at www.skyjack.com ACT full page.indd 1 30/04/2014 08:57:46 COMMENT Editorial Editor: Lindsey Anderson Ph: 312-929-4409 E-mail: [email protected] COMMENT Executive editor: ACCESS PORTFOLIO APRIL-MAY 2014 Murray Pollok ACCESS, LIFT & HANDLERS VOLUME 10 ■ ISSUE 3 www.khl.comwww.khl.com INTERNATIONAL Ph: +44 (0)1505 850043 NEWS A KHL Group Publication www.khl.com/alh A KHL Group Publication Volume 14 Issue 3 April-May 2014 Volume: Twenty One ■ Issue Two A KHL Group publication ■ March-April 2014 www.khl.com/ai rental Hewden’s core fl eet EQUIPMENT strategy paying off E-mail: [email protected] Personal fall protection p54 EVENTS Shortlist Shortlists announced for ConExpo review Superbooms European Rental Awards p25 APEX preview ConExpo review IAPA winners Leigh Ainsworth on making INTERVIEW Coates Hire more effi cient David p13 Staff writers: Raise your voice White Lindsay Gale, Chris Sleight, Booming Compaction p17 D.Ann Slayton Shiffler, Euan Youdale Manufacturers have introduced a New rollers, plate compactors and rammers number of new models into the market Low level access p39p39 OfficialOffi il magazine of the ERA Official magazine of IPAF IRE EXHIBITIONTop suppliers signGUIDE up for OFFICIAL NORTH Amsterdam rental show AMERICAN MAGAZINE ACCESS ■ TELEHANDLERS ■ SCAFFOLDING ■ BUSINESS ■ NEWS ■ PEOPLE t was some time ago when someone close to me admitted they weren’t ACCESS INTERNATIONAL: 30 YEARS AS THE INDUSTRY’S LEADING GLOBAL MAGAZINE INSIDE: ASSET TRACKING, APPLETON COLUMN FALL PROTECTION/HARNESSESA KHL SPECIAL REPORT Production THE RENTAL voting in the Presidential election. It had nothing to do with candidates or REPORT Production director: parties; they just weren’t going to vote. To each his own, I suppose, but I International YEARBOOK 2020120013133 Awards for a comprehensive guide Saara Rootes I for buyers and users Powered of access equipment 2014 A COMPREHENSIVE SUPPLIER Access LISTING AND GUIDE TO THE 2013 told that person, “For the next four years, no matter what the outcome, you RENTAL MARKET FROM E-mail: [email protected] INTERNATIONAL RENTAL NEWS Production manager: can’t complain about whatever candidate wins, their stances or policies.” published by Ross Dickson They kind of stared at me in disbelief, but I explained, “If you’re not price: US$80.00, €60.00, £50.00 <<CONTENTS THE RENTAL REPORT 1 E-mail: [email protected] voting, then your voice goes unheard. You have no room to moan about the Production assistant: ACCESS, LIFT & HANDLERS consequences.” CONFERENCE Louise Kingsnorth &AWARDS2014 E-mail: [email protected] Same goes for our industry. Access, Lift & Handlers is published Design manager: Jeff Gilbert In the coming months, our ANSI standards – which are reviewed every by KHL Group. KHL’s access-related Designer: Gary Brinklow five years and updated or reaffirmed every 10 years – will undergo major events and publications include sister Design assistant: revisions. There have been industry murmurings that the ANSI secretariat will magazines Access International Grace Pullinger take a close and comparative look at ISO standards, which could in turn be and International Rental News, the Circulation adopted into ANSI’s. These inclusions could mimic ISO’s requirement for load APEX aerial platform exhibition, the Europlatform access rental BPA Filing Manager: sensing standards on all aerials or even something as significant as moving Hayley Gent from individual design, safe use and training standards for individual aerials to conference, the International Awards for Powered Access (IAPA), as well as E-mail: [email protected] grouped aerial categories. Business development director: two annual directories, The Access Peter Watkinson What do you think of that? Yearbook and The Rental Book. E-mail: [email protected] From a broad perspective, these standards are developed by and for the For details, see www.khl.com Office and bookshop manager: industry; it’s an industry-wide project. From volunteer, subject-matter experts Clare Grant to general public opinion, anyone – and everyone – can get involved and have E-mail: [email protected] a say when standards come out for public comments. Offi cers It’s up to you to get involved. It’s everyone’s responsibility to contribute to www.twitter.com/ Chief Executive Officer what’s in a standard. So here are two easy ways to get your voice heard. khlgroupalh James King Find out if any associations you belong to are on standards committees. Chief Information Officer Paul Marsden You can then voice your opinion through your association. If that’s not an Publisher & President option, then when the standard comes out for public comment, make sure the www.facebook.com/ Trevor Pease secretariat (the Scaffold & Access Industry Association) hears your opinion and AccessLiftandHandlers Sales ideas. Sales manager: For example, what do you think about allowing end-users to exit an elevated Wil Holloway work platform to work on a structure? Safe? Unsafe? It could happen in the www.youtube.com/ Ph: 312-929-2563 coming year… KHLGroupKHLGroup E-mail: [email protected] Make your voice heard. Be a part of standards-decision making. Because Deputy sales manager: Jonathan Cervero when these standards are published and out there, that’s the way it goes for at Ph: 312-929-3247 least another five years. E-mail: [email protected] As for this issue, there's a lot to digest. We have our annual Marketplace sales executive: Bev O’Dell TELEHANDLER30 list that ranks North America's telehandler-fleet-owning Ph: 816-886-1858 rental companies by total number of telehandlers owned. There was some Fax: 816-886-1884 amazing double-digit growth by mid-sized and independents this year, make Cell: 816-582-5253 E-mail: [email protected] sure to check it out on page 25. Accounts assistant: I also conducted an interview with MEC's president, David White, about Emily Roberts the company's transition from typical aerial work platform provider to niche specialist. See our interview with White on page 14. We also have interviews with Acme Lift's new president, Mike Crouch (23) and newer fall protection company, Tech Safety Lines (31). Plus a ConExpo review, IAPA winners announced and so much more. Thanks for reading. Correspondence or comments should be sentent to: Lindsey Anderson Access, Lift & Handlers IPAF’s official 205 W. Randolph St., Suite 1320, North American Chicago, IL 60606 magazine e-mail: [email protected] ALH 04-05 2014 Comment LA JG FINAL.indd 3 28/04/2014 12:40:11 ACT full page.indd 1 29/04/2014 09:07:47 CONTENTS APRIL-MAY 2014 ACCESS, LIFT & HANDLERS VOLUME 10 ■ ISSUE 3 ON THE OUTSIDE A KHL Group Publication www.khl.com/alh EQUIPMENT Personal fall protection EVENTS ConExpo review WHAT’S INSIDE APEX preview IAPA winners INTERVIEW David White ALH Booming Manufacturers have introduced a number of new models into the market OFFICIAL NORTH AMERICAN MAGAZINE ACCESS ■ TELEHANDLERS ■ SCAFFOLDING ■ BUSINESS ■ NEWS ■ PEOPLE T30 JLG unveiled the TELEHANDLERS world's tallest boom lift, pictured here, at ConExpo. Read more 14 18 25 31 about it on pages 18 and 36. INTERVIEW: BOOM LIFTS TELEHANDLER30 PERSONAL FALL DAVID WHITE From the world’s tallest The annual T30 PROTECTION Lindsey Anderson to the leanest and represents a bustling Tech Safety Lines talks with MEC Aerial greenest, a number of market. Lindsey was formed by Diane Work Platforms’ new units have hit the Anderson reports on Waghorne and Brent president, David White, market in the last year, major activity from mid- Wise after a National about the company’s especially at ConExpo sized independents up to tragedy changed the transformation. 2014. ALH reports. the big boys. lives of many. Access, Lift & Handlers makes every NEWS 6 APEXA PREVIEW 35 effort to ensure that editorial and Hertz to spinoff equipment rental division; AWP Pioneer JustJ two months remain until the eighth APEX advertising information carried in the magazine is true and accurate, but Russ Guthery dies; Terex AWP sends JLG letter of concern aeriala work platform exhibition kicks off at RAI KHL Group Americas LLC cannot be over possible patent infringement; C-Tech offers refurbished Exhibition Centre in the Netherlands. ALH previews the event. held responsible for any inaccuracies scissors; Aspen launches lightweight B-32 bridge inspection and the views expressed throughout the magazine are not necessarily unit, plus events calendar, highlights, the ALH Share Index those of the publisher.