ACT Top 100
ACT Top 100
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American Cranes & Transport’s 17th annual ACT100
Index of North America’s top crane-owning companies.
T
he ACT100 index of
North America’s top crane-
owning companies declined
in 2022, the first time in a long time
that our index has not grown. There’s
been a sell off of cranes by most
companies on the list, most notably by
Maxim Crane Works, still the number
one company on the list for 17 years
running.
Maxim’s index dropped from 715,000
tons to 261,743 tons. Maxim's total
tonnage fell by 453,257 tons. The
entire ACT100 index shrank by
329,339 tons. While a lot of companies
right-sized their fleets, a few made
notable gains. For the most part,
the top 10 companies still ranked in
the top 10 with Buckner HeavyLift
moving up two spots and a couple of
companies in the top 10 trading places.
Companies in the top 10 that saw
growth in their ACT index included
Bigge, Buckner, Marmon and TNT.
Last year, the ACT100 added
EMPLOYEES
BY THE NUMBERS
41,032
BRANCHES Mammoet’s Focus 30 works at a
petrochemical plant in Port Arthur, TX.
784
MOBILE CRANES
15,557 Top10 largest crawler fleets
RANK CRAWLER
CRAWLER CRANES 2022 COMPANY NAME WEBSITE FLEET ACT INDEX
3,129 1 Lampson International lampsoncrane.com 393 128,768
2 Maxim Crane Works maximcrane.com 389 261,743
TOTAL CAPACITY
3 Bigge Crane and Rigging Company bigge.com 346 248,706
2,553,322 tons 4 ALL Family of Companies allcrane.com 307 160,239
5 Buckner HeavyLift Cranes bucknercompanies.com 181 130,040
ACT100 2023 6 Mammoet Americas mammoet.com 136 99,689
Submit information for the 2023 7 Marmon Crane Services Inc. marmoncranes.com 97 129,087
ACT100 by emailing: 8 J.F. Lomma Inc. jflommainc.com 91 40,456.50
[email protected] or 9 W.O. Grubb Crane Rental wogrubb.com 81 59,794
[email protected].
10 TNT Crane & Rigging tntcrane.com 62 91,446 >40
RANK SCOPE OF
2022 2021 COMPANY NAME HQ BRANCHES EMPLOYEES OPERATION SENIOR CONTACT & TITLE
1 ⊲1 Maxim Crane Works USA 60 3,046 National Paul McDonnell, CEO
2 ⊲2 Bigge Crane and Rigging Company USA 23 1,081 National Weston Settlemier, President/CEO
3 ⊲3 ALL Family of Companies USA 31 1,600 Worldwide Michael L. Liptak, President
(ALL Erection & Crane Rental)
4 ▲6 Buckner HeavyLift Cranes USA 3 250 Worldwide Doug Williams, CEO
5 ⊲5 Marmon Crane Services USA 52 2,175 Worldwide Tim Benjamin, President
6 ▼4 Lampson International USA 7 300 Worldwide William Lampson, President
7 ⊲7 Mammoet Americas USA 24 7,000 Worldwide Paul van Gelder, CEO
8 ▲9 TNT Crane & Rigging USA 45 1,750 National Mike Appling, Jr., CEO
9 ▼8 Barnhart Crane & Rigging USA 55 1,600 National Alan Barnhart, CEO
10 ⊲ 10 Beyel Brothers USA 9 400 Regional Joseph D. Beyel, President
11 ▲ 12 Deep South Crane & Rigging USA 7 700 Worldwide Mitch Landry, President
12 ▼ 11 W.O. Grubb Crane Rental USA 12 500 National Michelle Grubb, CEO
13 ⊲ 13 Bragg Crane Service USA 15 1,200 National Mike Roy, Executive Vice President
14 ▲ 20 Sterett Crane & Rigging USA 12 185 National William Sterett III, President
15 ▼ 14 Lomma Crane & Rigging USA 8 175 Worldwide Frank Signorelli, COO
16 ⊲ 16 Guay Inc. CANADA 24 500 National Jean-Marc Baronet, President
17 ▲ 18 ML Crane Group USA 13 500 National Caroline Asimakopoulos, President
18 ▼ 17 Sarens USA USA 4 300 Worldwide Lee Rowe, Regional Director
19 ▼ 15 Mountain Crane Service USA 7 229 Regional Paul Belcher, CEO
20 ▲ 21 NCSG Crane and Heavy Haul CANADA 9 375 National Heather MacCallum, President/CEO
21 ▼ 19 Bay Ltd. USA 5 3,000 Worldwide Berry Peterson, Vice President
22 ⊲ 22 Scott-Macon Equipment USA 8 200 Worldwide Allan Woodruff, Executive Vice President
23 NEW Allegiance Crane & Equipment USA 8 350 Regional Justin Romero, COO
EDITOR’S NOTE: Every attempt was made to assure the information in the ACT100 is correct and accurate. The editors
24 ▼ 23 Marco Crane & Rigging USA 7 253 National Dan Mardian, Jr., President
of ACT and employees of KHL Group Americas do not assume responsibility for errors, omissions or erroneous information.
MOBILE CRAWLER
WEBSITE CRANES CRANES LARGEST CRANE CAPACITY ACT INDEX
maximcrane.com 1,750 389 Manitowoc 31000 2,535 261,743
bigge.com 1,011 346 Liebherr LR 11000 1,100 248,706
allcrane.com 1,659 307 Liebherr LR 11000 1,200 160,239
RANK SCOPE OF
2022 2021 COMPANY NAME HQ BRANCHES EMPLOYEES OPERATION SENIOR CONTACT & TITLE
43 ▲ 50 Reliable Crane Service USA 4 165 Regional Darrell Shaw, CEO
44 ▲ 57 CraneWorks/Rental Works USA 3 180 Regional Kenny Bishop, President
45 ▼ 41 Digging and Rigging USA 6 228 Regional James Gregory, Sr., President
46 ▼ 45 Vic's Crane & Heavy Haul USA 5 250 Regional Josh Horsch, Vice President
47 ▲ 71 McRay Crane & Rigging USA 1 56 Regional Calvin Jones, Executive Director
47 ▼ 44 Irving Equipment* CANADA 7 150 National David Irving, General Manager
48 ▼ 42 Boss Crane & Rigging USA 5 250 National David Cowley, President
49 ▼ 48 Ideal Crane Rental USA 6 100 Regional Robert Kalhagen, President
50 ▼ 49 Allison Crane & Rigging USA 5 165 National Larry Allison Jr., President
51 ▼ 43 CraneWorks USA 9 175 Worldwide Keith Ayers, CEO
52 ▼ 51 Kirby-Smith Machinery USA 12 600 National Rickey Bailey, Vice President, Crane Division
53 ▼ 52 Edwards Inc. USA 6 625 Regional Jamie Ezzell, Crane Division Manager
54 ▲ 64 Budrovich Contracting USA 4 100 Regional Eric Struckhoff, Vice President
54 ▼ 53 R.H. Marlin Inc. * USA 1 75 Regional Joe Fox, Vice President
55 ▼ 54 Thackray Crane Rental USA 5 135 Regional Steve Stunder, CEO
56 ▲ 59 Hill Crane Service USA 3 125 Regional Ronald Hill, CEO
57 ▲ 62 J J Curran Crane USA 2 33 Regional Jeff Curran, President
58 ▼ 56 Blue Hat Crane & Equipment Rental* USA 4 110 National Mike Palendat, Equipment Operations Director
58 ▼ 55 G. A West/Legacy Equipment USA 5 1,400 National Gary A. West, President
59 ▼ 58 Amherst Crane Rentals CANADA 6 100 Regional Chris Welstead, Vice President
59 ▲ 60 Crane Service Company USA 7 179 Regional Brian Mazzella, Vice President
60 ▲ 63 Alamo Crane Services USA 2 75 Regional Marvin Ohlenbusch, COO
61 ▲ 65 Phoenix Crane Rental USA 4 99 Regional Karen Barton, President
62 ▼ 61 Giuffre Bros. Cranes USA 2 25 Worldwide Todd Proctor, General Manager
EDITOR’S NOTE: Every attempt was made to assure the information in the ACT100 is correct and accurate. The editors
63 NEW Superior Rigging & Erecting Company USA 2 National Jason McFadden, COO
of ACT and employees of KHL Group Americas do not assume responsibility for errors, omissions or erroneous information.
MOBILE CRAWLER
WEBSITE CRANES CRANES LARGEST CRANE CAPACITY ACT INDEX
reliablecraneservice.com 99 10 Liebherr LR1600 660 12,160
craneworks.com 130 4 Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1 500 12,000
digrig.com 78 4 Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 900 11,179.50
vicscrane.com 75 5 Demag CC2800 w/superlift wagon 660 10,673
mcraycrane.com 38 1 Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2 365 9,500
irvingequipment.com 56 15 Liebherr LR 1600/2 660 9,500
bosscrane.com 30 12 Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 900 9,354
idealcranerental.com 79 13 Liebherr LTM-1450-8.1 550 9,112
allisoncrane.com 46 2 Terex AC 500/1 625 8,420
crane-works.com 329 4 Tadano Demag AC 220-5 245 8,111
kirby-smith.com 130 7 Manitowoc MLC 300 386 8,025
edwardsinc.com 81 2 Demag AC 500 600 7,821
budrovich.com 80 7 Grove GMK 7550 550 7,752
rhmarlin.com 75 15 Grove GMK 7550 550 7,752
thrackraycrane.com 95 5 Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1 500 7,527
hillcrane.com 57 1 Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1 500 6,850
jjcurran.com 63 1 Grove GMK 6400 450 6,693
bluehatcrane.com 46 14 Grove GMK 7550 550 6,320
gawest.com 31 21 Manitowoc 16000 w/Maxer 440 6,320
amherstgroup.ca 65 1 Liebherr LTM1400 500 6,011
craneserviceco.com 34 4 Liebherr LTM 1650-8.1 770 6,011
alamocrane.com 38 0 Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 600 5,868
phoenixcrane.com 58 1 Grove GMK 5250L 300 5,625
giuffre.com 185 0 Liebherr LTM 1090/2 110 5,490
superiorrigging.com 42 10 Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2 350 5,205
sparksinc.com 33 7 Manitowoc 2250 300 5,000
jsupor.com 34 1 Liebherr LTM 1500 600 5,000
connellycrane.com 53 9 Liebherr LTM 1350-6.1 400 4,601
wanzek.com 17 8 Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 1,500 4,380
padgett-inc.com 35 6 Grove GMK 6300L 350 4,004
landwehrconstruction.com 15 6 Demag AC 350-6 400 3,750
rkmcrane.com 23 1 Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1 500 3,684
ericksonsgr.com 14 6 Manitowoc MLC 650 770 3,400
ozarkcrane.us 24 0 Demag AC500-2 600 3,399
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ACT100
RANK SCOPE OF
2022 2021 COMPANY NAME HQ BRANCHES EMPLOYEES OPERATION SENIOR CONTACT & TITLE
80 ▲ 85 Iron Stag Crane Service USA 1 26 Regional Ned Eisenhart, President
EDITOR’S NOTE: Every attempt was made to assure the information in the ACT100 is correct and accurate. The editors
81 NEW Rossco Crane & Rigging USA 1 50 Regional Ross Kovach, Vice President
of ACT and employees of KHL Group Americas do not assume responsibility for errors, omissions or erroneous information.
89,917 tons for a total index of 2,868,110. the ACT100 is Allegiance Crane & fleet with 1,750 units, down from 2,850
In 2020, the ACT100 gained 159,537 Equipment, with an ACT index of 26,599 mobile crane units in 2021.
tons of capacity for a total index of tons and a ranking of number 23. The largest crane on the ACT100 is
2,778,193. The largest crawler crane fleet in North Mammoet’s 5,000-ton capacity PTC 200
This year the number of branches America goes to Lampson International DS and Sarens’ SGC-250, both with 5,000
increased to 784, up 24 from 760 last this year with 393 crawler cranes. Maxim tons capacity. Other heavy lift cranes
year. Last year employee counts fell, Crane Works reported 389 crawlers include the 3,000-ton capacity Lampson
but this year saw gains to the highest in their fleet, down from 515 last year. LTL-3000 and the Deep South Crane and
employee count ever recorded by the Maxim still has the largest mobile crane Rigging VersaCrane TC36000/2.
ACT100. In 2022, the ACT100
employs 41,032 people. In 2021, the
ACT100 employed 36,987 workers.
Top10 largest mobile fleets
Employee counts of the ACT100 RANK MOBILE
have ebbed and flowed over the past five 2022 COMPANY NAME WEBSITE FLEET ACT INDEX
years. 1 Maxim Crane Works maximcrane.com 1,750 261,743
In 2021, our index reported 3,288 2 ALL Family of Companies allcrane.com 1,659 160,239
crawler cranes. This year our index
showed 3,129 crawler cranes. 3 Marmon Crane Services Inc. marmoncranes.com 1,046 129,087
This year there were 15,557 mobile 4 Bigge Crane and Rigging Company bigge.com 1,011 248,706
cranes reported on our list as compared 5 TNT Crane & Rigging tntcrane.com 598 91,446
to 16,351 mobile cranes in 2021.
6 Mammoet Americas mammoet.com 530 99,689
Mergers and acquisitions continue to
impact the ACT100, although the 7 Barnhart Crane & Rigging barnhartcrane.com 505 87,905
activity wasn’t as extreme as past years. 8 Scott-Macon Equipment smequipment.com 478 27,875
The top 25 stayed pretty much the 9 Guay Inc. gruesguay.com 445 39,655
same, with a few flip-flops here and
there. The largest new company to enter 10 Bragg Crane Service braggcompanies.com 375 49,844
MOBILE CRAWLER
WEBSITE CRANES CRANES LARGEST CRANE CAPACITY ACT INDEX
ironstagcrane.com 12 0 Liebherr LTM 1450-8.1 550 1,955
rosscocrane.com 12 0 Tadano ATF-220G-5 250 1,930
d-cranerental.com 21 0 Grove GMK 6300L-1 350 1,865
greinerindustries.com 13 0 Demag AC 500-8 600 1,820
crhollandcrane.com 14 1 Liebherr LTM 1400-7.1 500 1,763
itccrane.com 19 0 Grove GMK 6300 350 1,699
jkcrane.com 15 2 Demag AC300-2 350 1,671
diamondsteel.com 34 0 Grove GMK 275 275 1,666
ameonline.com 19 0 Grove GMK 5250-L 300 1,565
swirusa.com 50 5 Grove GMK 7550 550 1,560
jcrane.com 12 0 Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2 360 1,508
mansfieldcrane.com 9 0 Grove GMK 6300L-1 350 1,500
pscind.com 15 0 Liebherr LTM1250-5.1 300 estimates
*ACT1,385
burkescranerental.com 26 0 Grove GMK 5250L 300 1,330
moderncraneinc.com 12 1 Grove GMK 5275 275 1,288
waggonerequipment.com 25 0 Link Belt RTC 80160 160 1,161
nexgencrane.com 9 0 Tadano ATF 200G-5 220 651
runnionequipment.com 29 0 National Crane 14127A 33 553
kinsercrane.com 9 0 Grove GMK 5150 175 515
desrochersinc.com 5 0 Link-Belt HTC86100 100 264
advanced-rigging.com 9 0 Grove 1012 18 137
Our methodology we realize there are probably 10 to 15 This year, we were 100 percent with
For this list we sent surveys to close major crane-owning companies not 105 companies submitting forms. Due
to 500 companies in the U.S., Canada represented. Some companies do not to ties, there are a few companies on the
and Mexico. While the ACT100 want to share information about their list with an asterisks and their data are
is much more comprehensive than current fleets, and we respect their shown as estimates. For these entries,
it was when we started it in 2005, decision. we did not get updated information
and instead relied on an estimate
Top10 largest cranes formula based on data obtained last year
and through other sources. All these
RANK companies on the list were contacted,
2022 COMPANY NAME LARGEST CRANE CAPACITY some several times, and given the
1 Mammoet Americas Mammoet PTC 200 5,000 opportunity to supply fleet information
and related data.
2 Buckner HeavyLift Cranes Liebherr LR 13000 3,307 As stated previously, in the largest
3 Sarens USA Demag CC8800 3,200 crane in a fleet category, different
=4 Lampson International Lampson Transi-Lift LTL-3000 3,000 capacities may be listed for the same
machine. We rely on the information
=4 Deep South Crane & Rigging VersaCrane TC 36000/2 3,000 supplied to us in determining these
5 Maxim Crane Works Manitowoc 31000 2,535 capacities as rigging variables can
6 Fagioli Inc. (USA) Liebherr LR 11350 P-Boom 2,000 change the capacity of the crane.
Because the vast majority of crane-
=7 Guay Inc. Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 1,500
owning companies are privately held,
=7 Wanzek Construction Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 1,500 it can be difficult to obtain and verify
8 Barnhart Crane & Rigging Demag CC8800 1,375 figures, although we do approach
9 NCSG Crane and Heavy Haul Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 1,350 independent industry sources for
assistance and use related web resources
10 Superior Cranes Inc. Demag CC6800-1 1,325
and research when we use an estimate. >46
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