Bucket/Boom Trucks For Sale

Bucket/Boom Truck

This type of vehicle belongs to the lifting and material handling equipment.

Normally, a bucket truck is used to lift workers, tools and materials to work at height (cutting trees, maintenance, the utilities job, installing road signs and etc.). A flatbed truck with a multiple-section boom crane is called a boom truck. This crane allows loading different materials on a truck and then transporting them to a necessary place. This truck can be useful for delivering some building and construction materials like posts, electric cables, wood beams, bricks, metal frames, heavy equipment also and etc.

Typical bucket/crane lift heights range from 15 to 160 feet. The trucks include minimum two stabilizers (one on the each side) and PTO or power take-off. PTO is used to operate the hydraulic system of the boom crane or bucket and powered usually by the truck engine.

There are the most popular makes for trucks with telescopic boom: Ford, GMC, International (Inter), Freightliner, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Sterling, Mack, Western Star and Volvo.