TRUCK MOUNTED CRANES
Truck mounted crane scope - under what does it fall? Years ago, the steering committee for LMI’s at ECSA submitted a proposed list of categories of lifting machines numbering around 100 items. The debate went to the CRC and concluded with the identified 18 main categories. Amongst these were mobile cranes which needed a SANS standard to identify the differences in the types of cranes which needed different requirements when testing and the variety of these mobile cranes. Eg. Mobile rough terrain cranes, mobile all-terrain cranes, mobile all-terrain
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lattice boom cranes and all models of crawler cranes. Plus others like “Loader cranes” and “Boom trucks“ are also known as TMC’s. All these are mobile cranes that can be found in the identified categories for the operators’ licences defined
in the National Code of Practice. The criteria in both cases were quite different in the execution of the work and goals. The final list was hotly debated and after it was grouped indicating the 18 main categories, it was accepted by the LMI steering committee at ECSA. Eventually, this was published in 2013 and it then became an official ECSA document. What most current ECSA assessors don’t know is that the wording of the definitions was accepted as principal requirements. Recently the groups have not recognised and respected these categories which have for instance fuelled a debate about the difference between specific lifting machines like “Loader cranes” versus “mobile cranes”. Loader cranes were called TMC’s which was unfortunate because
