Are your Construction Loading Platforms Rentals Too Expensive?

Construction Loading Platform Rentals have continued to increase in costs beyond inflation. If a calendar month of rentals are over $2200, your annual spend is $26,400. Then what’s it cost to mobilize and return it? Is it fair to project that contractors are paying $30,000 per year for construction loading platform rentals? Does that make sense?

Rental Equipment Worth the Premium

Rental Equipment can be worth the premium of a rental rate. Telehandler forklifts. If it breaks down, do you want to wait for new parts and have it down for four days? What does that do to a job schedule? If you rent a crane it can come with the latest technology and technical support from many large suppliers. If you get it with an operator you can specific large insurance premiums to go with it to mitigate risk exposure and have absurd contracts that also protect you. One can make the argument for paying for the whole crane every year to keep the project moving. If the rental crane breaks down, another crane will move in to replace it. If you own it, it can be spendy.

Construction Loading Platforms are Not Worth a Premium Rental

Construction Loading Platform Rentals don’t lead to more modern equipment. They don’t bring new technology that would make your people safer or more productive. With CraneGear, you can buy the most modern and capable construction loading platforms on the market. If you want a retractable Construction Loading Platform, ours are as large as anyone else’s up to 13’-7” wide with 17’ of outboard. And while fully extended, we have an 11,000 lb capacity. When it comes to rental retractable crane decks, the capacity I see regularly listed is 5500 or 5800 lbs. So about half. And the person landing the equipment needs to know this information to avoid a potential disaster. Our largest versions are also modular so they are easy to ship. We don’t have wide load issues. They fit nicely on a standard truck. Our Eichinger Construction Loading Platforms also have the tallest posts for shoring available as well. Up to 26’ when others offer 10’ as their maximum option. And do they offer interior gates so you can maintain the fall protection on a floor while you land long items with the outer gates open? Do they offer fall arrest solutions being built in, or do they simply worry about their risk exposure if they did? So why pay a premium? They are going to advertise their name on your jobsite as well. You can fix all of these issues with ownership.

Two Post deck with Fall arrest and added fall protection built in. The benefits of ownership.

Breakdown Rental Costs vs Ownership of Construction Loading Platforms

The Construction Loading Platform Rental Cost vs ownership is commonly one job of rent leading to full ownership of the Construction Loading Platforms we sell. Are there some ancillary costs to cover still. Maybe. We’d have to ask what you are paying and what added tax the Trump Presidency is asking of you.

If a rental cost for a year, or 13 - 28 day cycles, is 26,400 for an 8’ wide Crane Loading Platform, you should know that you can buy four Static Construction Loading Platforms for $14,200 per unit. And that’s the price with a premium tax of 25% from the President. We can fit four of these in a container and ship them for about $9000 to any port in the US. Then we just have to figure out mileage to your location for an actual cost. For round numbers, let’s call that $66,000 to own 4 decks for 25 30 years. Is the rental cost of four pushing $100,000? For those numbers, we can sell you four Retractable Construction Loading Platforms. We’d sell 4 units of 8’-6” wide Crane Loading Platforms for $100,000 and ship them to just about any port in the US for the $9000. Then we’d only have the question of mileage from the port to your location to work out and any sales tax matters. But you own them. They can be in your colors so your logo shines. They can be used for 25 or 30 years and it will be largely trouble free. Your company will not face paying this premium rental cost next year, or for the next 30 years. When you account for inflation, you’ll see your money back 10 to 15x over the life of the decks.

Retractable Construction Loading Platforms should advertise your name.

Plan Ahead & Get Ahead with CraneGear

Producing decks can take 6 weeks. Shipping is 4 to 8 weeks depending on West Coast vs East Coast. So 2.5 to 3.5 months ahead is how you need to be thinking. If you just need one deck and can live with 8’-6” decks, we can fill the container with other items to make the shipping cost make sense. You using 2 yard concrete buckets? If yes, we can sell you those at $3000 with a chute. The shipping is already paid for. Crane forks for $1341. Crane Skip Pans that are automated can sell for $3000. Improve your processes and make your shipping costs make sense. We have hundreds of items to make life easier. If it’s time to get away from Construction Loading Platform rentals, we can help. The numbers are significant, but they are significant as a rental as well. Those numbers don’t return better results, so why are you paying them? Let’s get you the gear you’ll use the rest of your career and let it tell the world who is doing the work you are so proud of.