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Bucket Trucks By Versalift
Bucket Trucks – Where to Buy a Bucket Truck
Bucket trucks are available for purchase through Versalift distributors across North America, and around the world. Versalift distributors have the advantage of delivering a lower true cost of ownership to contractors and fleet organizations due to smarter, more reliably designed equipment. Bucket trucks manufactured by Versalift are built using stronger, advanced lightweight materials. The reliability of Versalift equipment is borne out by the company’s industry leadership in both warranty and product recall rates. Versalift distributors are the right choice to buy, lease, service and test bucket trucks.
Bucket Trucks – Where to Lease a Bucket Truck
Bucket trucks are available for lease through TRLRents.com, a Time Manufacturing Company brand, where equipment is available for least through several competitive and flexible financing programs, including RPO.
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A Lower True Cost of Ownership Through Smarter, More Reliable Design
Bucket trucks, high reach aerial lifts, digger derricks, cable placers and other equipment manufactured by Versalift feature smarter and more reliable design, which results in less time in the shop and more time at work. Versalift equipment has the lowest warranty claim rate in the industry. Watch the video to learn more.
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Top Factors When Choosing a Bucket Truck
Bucket trucks have several applications, and they are kept busy performing elevated tasks in support of electric power, telecommunications, city lighting, signage and other infrastructure-oriented organizations. There are important factors when determining the kind of equipment that best fits the needs of both the organization and the operators for which it is responsible. Operator safety is always the top priority in every piece of equipment manufactured by Versalift.
Top factors when choosing a bucket truck:
- Platform height
- Platform capacity
- Material handling capacity
- Insulation requirements
- Overall equipment reliability
Choosing A Bucket Truck – Platform Height
Platform height is a basic factor that buyers consider when purchasing a bucket truck. Depending on the industry in which the equipment is being used, platform heights are largely standardized. For example, telecommunications aerial equipment tends to be standardized to work at approximately 30 feet up. Electric power distribution service vehicles tend to work at heights exceeding 40 feet, and often need to be much taller than that.
Versalift bucket trucks near me can be organized into four platform height ranges. Platform heights five feet below the bucket truck’s actual working height.
Bucket trucks – 29-45 feet
Bucket trucks – 45-65 feet
Bucket trucks – 65-100 feet
Bucket trucks – 100 feet and up
Other top factors when choosing a bucket truck
Material Handling
On many job sites, ongoing work often requires that bucket trucks have significant material handing capacity. If needing a jib and winch is a job requirement, material handling becomes one of the top factors to consider when choosing a bucket truck. There are several popular Versalift bucket trucks, including the VST-47-MHI, which have optional jib and winch configurations, and that can serve highly specific purposes for operators. Often thought of as a ‘Total Package,’ the VST-47-MHI has a material handling capacity of 1,000 lbs.
As a market-leading innovator, Versalift created both the Electroguard and TruGuard® safety systems, which combine to offer the safest telescopic insulated aerial units on the market, at any height and position, including fully retracted.
With the invention of TruGuard®, the most advanced bucket truck safety system available on the market today, Versalift is working to protect the next generation of utility linemen. TruGuard® comes standard on almost all insulated Versalift bucket trucks under 100’.
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Insulated aerial lifts are required equipment in industries responsible for the construction and maintenance of electric utility distribution infrastructure. While the electric utility construction and distribution industries are primary users of insulated units, they are also commonly used in tree care, forestry and line-clearing applications. Additionally, municipal applications for bucket trucks, light traffic signal maintenance, often require insulated equipment. Versalift insulated aerial lifts meet or exceed all ANSI dielectric isolation standards, and are the gold standard in operator protection.
Equipment reliability is an integral part of owning a bucket truck. Versalift equipment has the lowest warranty rate in the business, and has had fewer recalls than any other major manufacturer of aerial equipment. The more reliable a bucket truck is, the less time that truck spends in service. An important part of equipment reliability is making sure that we have the parts that our customers need, and that we have them available to be shipped next-day. Versalift has a nationwide service network with the skill, training and certification to service and repair not just Versalift equipment, but competing brands as well.
TRUGUARD™ SAFETY SYSTEM – EXPLAINER VIDEO
“Invisible to the operator, TruGuard™ acts like an airbag or seatbelt – there in case of an incident. It does not alter the operational performance of the aerial lift in any way, and does not require additional training.”
James Christian, VP Engineering, Versalift
Bucket trucks are used in a broad set of industries
Aerial lifts are essential equipment for several major industries around the world, which rely upon being able to put linemen and other technicians safely into the air. These industries include telecommunications, electric utility, electric power distribution and transmission, signage & lighting, vegetation management, bridge inspection and wind energy. Many of these industries are crucial to the normal operation of businesses and homes, and so are fundamental to daily life.
Aerial lifts, digger derricks and cable placers for telecommunications, electric utility, electric power distribution and transmission, signage & lighting, tree care and more.
Best Units for Electric Utility Maintenance and Construction
Versalift Bucket trucks, digger derricks and cable placers that are used for electric utility distribution can be found on the Versalift Electric Utility Distribution Equipment page. Insulated bucket trucks near me are available at every height. Safety innovations, smarter design and more reliable design make Versalift the right choice for fleets in the electric utility industry.
Best Units for Telecommunications
Versalift Bucket trucks, digger derricks and cable placers that are used for telecommunications can be found on the Versalift Telecommunications Equipment page. The most popular smaller telecommunications units are the Tel-29 and Vantel-29. Cable placer units, like the STP-36 and VTP-40 heavy cable stringer remain important units to telecommunications construction and maintenance fleets. Additionally, fleets responsible for network construction rely upon the TMD series of digger derricks.
Best Units for Forestry Applications
Bucket trucks near me that are built for forestry applications can be found at Versalift Forestry. Popular forestry units offered by Versalift Forestry include the Versalift Overcenter VO-260 and VO-270 models, available in rear-mounted and standard forestry configurations. See how Versalift Forestry equipment, including bucket trucks near me, create a lower true cost of ownership for forestry fleets.
Top factors when choosing a bucket truck:
- Platform height
- Platform capacity
- Material handling capacity
- Insulation requirements
- Overall equipment reliability