Yes, they can be mounted on trucks: on any commercial chassis, from a manufacturer of your choice but they can also be mounted on chassis that are specially made for them by the crane manufacturer: that is what Link-Belt Cranes does with what it calls its 'telescopic truck cranes'. But I am older now, if not necessarily wiser and life is not as simple as it was and truck cranes, it seems, do not have to be cranes that are mounted on trucks after all. 'Take a truck that is made by Volvo,' I wrote, 'or by Scania, or by MAN: stick a crane on the back of it and you have a truck crane'.Īnd nobody complained: not the (then) editor, not the crane makers, not the readers. Indeed, long ago in my distant and innocent youth, I wrote an article to that effect in this very magazine (the December 2020 edition, if you are collecting). And that is what this writer used to believe. When is a truck crane not a truck crane? Julian Champkin is slightly baffled.Ī truck crane is a crane that is mounted on a truck.
