HIAB, through CONTSYSTEM, its dealer in the Czech Republic, has supplied another new rescue vehicle to Czech firefighters in the Moravia-Silesia region of Eastern Europe. In recent years it’s just one of several vehicles with HIAB and Multilift equipment provided to their fire brigade, including a fire rescue vehicle fitted with a HIAB X-HiPro 418 […]

Minus 50 is the kind of cold you can’t even imagine. Gale-force winds. A shifting, unpredictable landscape of ice and snow. These are the extreme conditions on earth’s southernmost continent. And the challenges faced by work crews in Antarctica. HIAB is there. HIABs have been critical equipment in this icy region since a HIAB topped […]

There are many reasons why landscape companies love HIAB truck-mounted cranes. UK hard landscaping manufacturer Marshalls represents 108 of them. To develop and execute a long-term fleet replacement strategy for its integral crane equipment, Marshalls undertook a review of what they had, what they needed and what they wanted to sustain and grow their business […]

Railway maintenance is critical to infrastructure. It is paramount to the safe operation day after day, night after night, year after year, to keep trains running. So, when Prosutec and Air Rail sought to supply new state-of-the-art truck-mounted cranes to state-owned Spanish railway Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), they partnered with HIAB. HIAB will install […]

At Atlas Polar, safety is a key priority – it’s one of the key reasons we’re so happy to be HIAB’s sole Canadian distributor. Once again, HIAB has delivered a significant new safety and performance feature that makes operating a heavy-duty crane safer and more stable than ever before. And it’s revolutionizing the way we […]

Virtual Reality (VR) puts you intensely, right ‘in the moment’ in any situation. It makes you hyper-aware of everything around you. So it only makes sense that this exciting technology has been brought to bear for heavy equipment cranes in highly sensitive operations like forestry, railway and recycling. And it only makes sense that HIAB […]

Think of driving a truck with a manual shift. Now think of switching over to an automatic. You’re still driving, but there are fewer things to worry about. The whole shifting of gears, managing the clutch, gearing up or down, adjusting the gas is just, well, automatic. There’s less to think about, so you pay […]

While Ontario’s GDP is in steep decline, the construction sector has been going up, up, up! And it’s predicted to continue. That’s excellent news for Atlas Polar and our customers. Our HIAB knuckleboom articulating cranes and Moffett truck-mounted forklifts are powering construction projects across the country and are everywhere on Ontario job sites. Downtime is […]

If your business delivers products out there or up there, truck-mounted articulating cranes can be an essential piece of equipment. These cranes range in capacity, reach, control, safety and performance features to lift heavy loads and deliver your materials on the job site. Also known as knuckleboom cranes, they’re designed to be durable, highly manoeuvrable […]

As history buffs, we were thrilled to discover this bit of archival history – an unearthed video documenting the construction of Stonehenge. Engrossed, you can imagine our surprise when, from across the Salisbury Plain, there emerged a HIAB truck crane hefting one of the great stones into position! But wait, what’s that? Heavy equipment? A […]