Software for the yard running truck-mounted boom lifts.

A truck-mounted boom lift is the unit a yard sends when the work is spread out and the lift has to get itself there. The boom rides on a road-going truck chassis, so the crew drives it to the pole, the sign, or the building, sets the outriggers, and works from an elevated platform — no trailer, no separate haul. That is what sets it apart from a self-propelled boom: it trades crawling speed on a site for highway speed between sites, which is why utility, telecom, sign, and facility crews lean on it. The same design makes it harder to run as a fleet. It is two machines in one record — a road truck and an aerial device — so wear, licensing, and inspection cut both ways. EquipFlow handles these units the way the yard that built it does: dispatch, billing, maintenance, and return inspection on one record per unit.

Built inside Rental King, right now.

Rental King is a heavy-equipment rental yard in Odessa and Midland, TX. They run truck-mounted boom lifts, manlifts, forklifts, light towers, generators, compressors, and water trucks on MSA contracts through the Permian Basin — 24/7, oilfield pace. EquipFlow was designed and first deployed inside that yard. Every feature was tested against their live operation before it shipped. The product runs there today.

Truck-mounted boom lifts are high-value, wide-ranging units, and the money leaks where the yard cannot watch them. A unit out on an MSA route earns nothing extra if the standby hours it sat on outriggers never reach the invoice, and it loses real money if road damage, a bent outrigger, or a failed dielectric section goes out the gate uncharged. Because the unit drives itself across a service area, it is often the asset the yard has the least eyes on, which makes a disciplined return inspection and a single source of truth more important, not less. The hour meter is the spine of aerial maintenance and billing, captured the same way every time — at return, on the inspection, against the rental record. When dispatch, billing, maintenance, and inspection read from one unit record, the dispatcher matches configuration and rate to the job, the mechanic services chassis and boom against real usage, and the month closes without rebuilding it from memory.

Truck-Mounted Boom Lift specs the rental record tracks.

Every number below is a sourced specification range. The render layer is the only path these values reach the page — they live on the unit record, not in a dispatcher's head.

Working height

40-80ft

Platform (work) capacity

500-800lb

Horizontal (side) reach

30-47ft

Jib / material-handling capacity

1000-2000lb

Hydraulic operating pressure

3000psi

Platform rotation

180deg

How EquipFlow handles truck-mounted boom lifts on the dispatch board.

A truck-mounted boom lift drives itself to the job, so the dispatch problem is the driver, not the trailer. Each unit shows on the driver-by-hour view, and because the chassis is road-going, dispatch has to match the unit to whoever can legally drive it — some heavier chassis need a commercial license, and the insulated units belong with crews trained to work hot. The dispatcher confirms the platform configuration on the rental record before the truck leaves: a customer who needs an insulated bucket or a material-handling jib gets nothing useful from a unit chosen on working height alone. Because these units cover a wide service area and book by the call, the board surfaces double-bookings at the point of assignment rather than at the gate, and it flags the unit that is due back before the next route can be promised.

Billing truck-mounted boom lifts — MSA, standby, and site-level tax.

Truck-mounted boom lift demand from utility and facility accounts is usually MSA-contracted, so the negotiated rate lives as an override on the customer record per equipment class, not in a lookup table the dispatcher keeps. A rental created for that account applies the right rate automatically. Standby matters here because a unit often sits on outriggers, idle and billable, while the crew works a long pole or waits on a switching window; the dispatcher marks standby and the invoice carries active hours and standby on separate lines without a month-end reconstruction. Mileage or a travel charge can ride the same invoice, since these units cover ground to reach the work. Tax jurisdiction is set on the delivery-site record, so a unit that worked across more than one county still bills at the right rate per site, and invoices post to QuickBooks Online on close.

Maintenance on truck-mounted boom lifts.

A truck-mounted boom lift carries two maintenance domains on one unit, and PM has to track both. The aerial device runs on the hour meter — boom and lift cylinders, the platform-leveling and rotation circuits, hose and wear-pad condition — and that clock is set against real usage, not the calendar, because a unit on a heavy route burns an interval fast while a yard spare sits. The hour reading posts when the return inspection records it, and the maintenance module advances the PM clock from that reading. The road chassis brings its own service rhythm: engine, transmission, brakes, tires, and the DOT items that keep a road-legal truck legal. Insulated units add a periodic dielectric test the unit cannot skip. Work orders, parts, and meter history live on the unit record, which is also where a damage charge from a return inspection becomes a repair ticket.

Truck-Mounted Boom Lift return inspections.

Two inspection rhythms apply. The operator-facing pre-use check is the customer's responsibility while the unit is on rent — boom, controls, outriggers, and the platform before each work period — under the aerial-device standard and the manufacturer manual. The yard's own control is the return inspection. Before a truck-mounted boom lift comes off rent, the driver runs a mobile-web checklist on a phone — no app install — captures the hour-meter reading, and attaches required photos that cannot be skipped. The checks specific to this unit matter here: outrigger pads and feet, the boom and platform structure, the insulated section and its cleanliness on dielectric units, hydraulic weep, and the road chassis itself — tires, lights, body damage from curbs and shoulders. The inspection ties to the rental record before the truck leaves, so a damage dispute has photos and a timestamp behind it.

Common truck-mounted boom lift classes in the field.

The product, the same way it runs for truck-mounted boom lifts.

The sections below are the EquipFlow modules that matter most when running truck-mounted boom lifts — each links to the full feature detail.

Operator guides for running truck-mounted boom lifts.

Field-tested playbooks that go deeper on pricing, dispatch, billing, and maintenance for fleets like this.

• Aerial Lift Inspection Requirements →
• Boom Lift vs Scissor Lift for Renters →
• Renting Out Aerial Lifts Safely →
• Reducing Equipment Downtime in a Rental Yard →

What you give up running truck-mounted boom lifts in EquipFlow.

EquipFlow is a web app, so the return inspection needs a signal to load. On a remote job with no coverage, the driver cannot finish the mobile inspection on site; most yards run it at the yard on return instead, so the photos and hour reading land later than ideal. There is no built-in telematics integration today, so engine-hour and fault data from a chassis or aerial portal is not pulled automatically — the hour meter is captured at return inspection. The system tracks the dielectric test as a maintenance item, but it does not run the test or manage a certification calendar for you. And the rate logic is built around the MSA-and-standby model utility and facility work runs on; an unusual billing structure should come to the demo to be scoped honestly.