An aerial lift truck puts a worker in the air on an insulated or non-insulated boom, and every hour aloft is billable work. We wire the boom, outriggers and PTO into the GPS tracker so the platform shows when and where crews were working at height, for utilities, sign shops, tree services and municipal crews across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
An aerial lift truck carries an articulating or telescoping boom with a work platform at the tip. It lets a worker reach overhead lines, signs, lights and trees from the truck instead of a ladder. Bucket trucks are the best known kind, but aerial lifts are also built with platforms for two workers, material handling jibs and long reach booms for sign and lighting work.
The boom runs on hydraulics, usually powered by a PTO on the truck transmission. When the PTO is engaged and the outriggers are set, the boom can move.
Wire colors for the chassis side are in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
Utilities and contractors bill and report work by location and time. A record of set up and boom-up time at each pole, sign or tree backs up time sheets and invoices. It also supports the inspection and maintenance schedule for the boom and hydraulics, which are serviced by use, not miles.
For bucket trucks specifically, see our bucket truck tracking page.
Electric and telecom utilities, line clearance tree crews, sign and lighting contractors, municipal traffic departments and cable installers. Many of these fleets run dozens of lift trucks across a region, and a supervisor cannot see every job. With boom and outrigger signals on the map, the office can see which crews are set up and working right now, which trucks are traveling, and which have been parked with the boom down for hours.
That picture helps dispatch the closest crew to an outage or emergency call, and it gives managers honest numbers on how much of each day is spent aloft versus driving and waiting.
This is one of the work truck and equipment applications we wire into GPS trackers. See all of them on our PTO and equipment monitoring page, and find wire colors for your truck in our Vehicle Wiring Database.
We wire PTO monitoring into trackers from all of these brands. Need heavy duty trackers for trucks or heavy equipment? Every brand below makes them, so pick yours and we install it.
Common questions
Yes, through a boom stowed switch and the PTO signal wired into the tracker.
Yes, when all wiring stays on the chassis and nothing runs along the boom.
We install across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
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