Truck crane operators on work placement: a container, a module and a yacht
Our trainees do their work placement at partner companies. Three shots from real shifts: lifting a container, placing a module on a house and moving a yacht at a shipyard.
You can learn crane theory in a classroom, but you only feel a load on the hook on site. That is why our trainees do their work placement at partner companies: on real truck cranes, with real loads, supervised by experienced operators.
The photos show three ordinary working situations. A container that has to be lifted with chain slings from a roadside and set onto a platform. A finished module that the crane carefully lowers onto the roof of a private house. And a yacht at a shipyard, moved on textile slings through a spreader beam so the hull is not damaged. In each case the crane operator works as a pair with a rigger: one drives the crane, the other is responsible for slinging and signals.
This is exactly what we teach. On the truck crane operator course trainees study crane design, load charts and safety instructions, then practise everything on the machine. On the rigger course they learn slinging schemes for different loads and practise at a company site next to the operator.
Groups start every month; the truck crane operator course takes from three weeks, the rigger course from two. For companies we run group training and knowledge checks with certificates. Sign up by phone or through the form on the website.
