Cable Placer Trucks for Telecom & Fiber Crews — What to Spec & What’s In Stock
Refurbished specialty aerials from a family-owned Sarasota dealer · ships nationwide
Fiber and telecom crews don’t buy cable placers the same way they buy a general utility bucket. Strand, overlash, aerial placement, and rebuilds reward trucks with real side-pull capacity, cable guides, and reel...
Non-CDL Used Bucket Trucks — What Qualifies & What’s In Stock
Refurbished aerial trucks from a family-owned Sarasota dealer · ships nationwide
If your crews need aerial access but you don’t want every driver locked behind a CDL, you’re not alone. Utility, telecom, broadband, construction, and sign & lighting fleets shop “Non-CDL” and “under CDL” used bucket trucks to expan...
“Lower controls work. The bucket is dead.”
Forum question (paraphrased):
On the CABL forum an Altec owner reported upper controls dead. Replies asked two screening questions: ...
“Outriggers are down. Why won’t the boom leave the rest?”
Forum question (paraphrased):
On ArboristSite, an operator with a 1994 Ford and an Altec boom wrote that after he extended the outriggers, neither upper nor lower boom controls would work. He was sure one of the outrigger switches was bad and asked how to jump them one at a time to find the dead leg.
Source: Arbori...
“The PTO dies as soon as I let off the brake.”
Forum question (paraphrased):
On ArboristSite, a buyer of an International / Altec aerial asked why the PTO would engage only with the foot brake down and shut off the instant the pedal came up. A friend had told him a different dance: foot brake, Drive, PTO switch, Neutral, set the air park brake, then release the pedal. On h...
How to Start and Operate an Altec AT41M on a 2019 Ford F-550
This guide is written around the 2019 Ford F-550 4x4 with Altec AT41M in the Monster Equipment inventory: a refurbi...
