“The cranes will slot into our fleet,” said Trevor Jepson, managing director of London’s City Lifting. With the extra 17 cranes, the firm, which focuses on the London market, will have 114 cranes in total.
“We were actually after the yard,” he said. “It may sound a backward way to go about it, but the Vanson yard is in Colsterworth, on the A1, in Lincolnshire. What we are doing, is moving out of rented yards, into a cheaper place where we can use a tower crane,” Jepson says. “In our yard now, in Brentwood, Essex, there is a crawler crane. People don’t like a crane yard near them.”
Vanson said that he sold the cranes because of stiff competition from the construction industry. “If they make a huge loss on their tower cranes, they don’t care, they are making money in construction. We have to put costs into rental fleet. if we are not getting sufficient funds to cover our costs, there is no point in doing it,” Vanson said.
