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Its probably a term you’ve heard used here and there but never knew the answer to what are bucket trucks. Well here at Trucks, that’s right up our street, so we’ll answer that question for you right here.

Bucket trucks get used in a fair number of industries. They are seen along roadsides here and there most days. You’ll often see telephone or utilities company employees can be seen riding in a bucket up to the top of a tall pole to fix something. Well, that’s pretty much what a bucket truck is.

Bucket trucks are mainly used for the lifting and lowering of workers up to those hard to get to places that are generally too tall for ladders, or for places where scaffolding cannot be easily or safely erected. They’re also useful for jobs that can be done in a short space of time without the added time load of erecting and dismantling scaffolding.

Bucket trucks come in a large number of shapes and sizes and each one is designed to help make certain work that much easier easier. They are used for loads of different purposes, but the most common use is by power linemen, who are able to undertake and complete their work in a safe, comfortable, and efficient manner. So wherever there are steel or concrete poles with something at the top that needs fitting or fixing, workmen will use bucket trucks to get the job done.

Bucket truck design includes a handy storage bin that’s perfect for safely holding the various tools and other material that may be needed by the worker. Some bucket trucks are specially designed with either a single or double-arm boom, while others have a hydraulic outrigger jack for extra stability. Some designs have the boom arm powered by the truck’s engine. Others are separately powered by an auxiliary engine mounted on the rear section of the truck.

These trucks are powerful pieces of machinery that should be treated with respect and there are several guidelines laid down OSHA rules and further information should be sought should you be considering adding one of these to your machine fleet for your business.

Hope that answers your question of what are bucket trucks.

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Welcome back to Trucks where in the last post I was looking at Chevy truck accessories in particular as well as some other truck related info. Here, I’m going to switch tack from the actual automobiles themselves to what they’re mostly used for, in the case of the big ones, that is!

I’m talking about transportation, haulage of goods and cargo and freight forwarders. Now without going into any great detail here, as I’m certainly no expert on this side of things, it is an interesting by-product of the machines that I am interested in. Of course, large trucks are used all the time for transporting cargo all over the country by road and despite rising fuel costs, this still remains a relatively cost effective method of transportation, especially for heavy items.

When it comes to transportation and logistics, that side of things leaves me completely confused. It takes someone with knowledge of times, distances, traffic flow etc to be able to figure out things like estimated arrival times and factor in how much it would all cost to do the whole transport thing. You have to factor in things like fuel costs, paying the driver, maintenance on the vehicle, loading and unloading plus storage in necessary and come up with a reasonable price to charge the person wanting the haulage done plus make a profit for the transport company. Save that for the professionals!

But from the driver’s perspective, once all the paperwork has been done, all he has to do is get into the rig and drive! Now that’s not such a bad thing to do and once you’re rolling, you’re on your own and there’s no one telling you what to do or how to dress. In other words once you leave the depot and until you reach your destination, you are your own boss. Its quite a liberating feeling.

But that’s about all I really want to write about for now. Like I said, its only a very broad overview of the whole transportation and logistics, haulage and freight forwarders side of trucks, which is a valid and important side of the interest in the big machines.

See you next time!

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