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Our Beginning
TNT Crane & Rigging began in Houston, Texas in 1985 with a single 18 ton crane. Our philosophy was simple: Provide our customers with exceptional service, quality equipment, trained personnel and a fair price.
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Early Growth
Because of our focus on our customer's needs, we grew - adding equipment and personnel. In this photo from 1987, TNT is erecting a new slide at Waterworld.
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Removing the Astrodome Scoreboard
In 1989, the Houston Astrodome underwent major renovations, adding seats to accommodate the Oilers. Here, TNT is working to remove the 474-foot Astrodome scoreboard.
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Adding Larger Capacity Cranes
To increase capacity and capabilities, TNT added a 250 ton Krupp crane in 1992-our largest crane at that time.
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Acquiring Our First
500 Ton Crane
Still growing, in 1996, we increased our lifting capacity with the purchase of our first 500 ton crane. In this photo, the crane is being off-loaded at the Port of Galveston.
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Branching Out!
In 1998, we expanded our geographical reach by opening our first branch location in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Building a New Stadium
In 2000, a new stadium was being built for the Houston Astros and TNT was employed to aid in the construction.
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Growing West!
In 2004, TNT opened a branch in San Antonio/Austin Texas, expanding to 3 branches.
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TNT Adds the Hydrospex SBL1100
to Its Gantry Fleet
The Hydrospex SBL 1100 Super Boom Lift is the state of the art in hydraulic gantries. This three stage, fully hydraulic gantry is designed to meet the highest standards in quality, safety and precision control to ensure optimum stability during lifting operations.
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TNT Adds the Terex 800 Ton Demag Crane to its fleet.
In 2007, TNT added the massive Terex AC700 Demag Crane to its fleet. The AC700 has lifting capacity of 800 U.S. tons, a boom length of 196.9' and a boom extension of 315'.
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TNT Acquires
Kuhn Crane Service
In 2008, TNT acquired Kuhn Crane Service in Corpus Christi. Pictured left is one of the cranes from the Kuhn fleet working beside TNT's 800 ton Demag.
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TNT Acquires Americrane in the D/FW Area
This strategic acquisition provided a compelling opportunity to expand geographically and acquire a modern fleet of cranes with an experienced team of operators.
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TNT Makes 2 Acquisitions and Opens a Branch in Oklahoma
In 2011, TNT purchased the South Texas assets from Louisiana Crane Company, announced that it was merging its Louisiana operations with RTL, LLC, and opened a new branch in Ratliff City, Oklahoma.
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TNT Acquires Turner Bros.
Crane Operations
TNT purchased the crane operation of Turner Bros., with 60 cranes and branches in Houston, Longview, Beaumont, Abilene and Corpus Christi. Included in the purchase was the Liebherr LMT11200 (pictured left), the world's largest hydraulic mobile crane.
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TNT Acquires
Southway Crane & Rigging
TNT Crane & Rigging acquired Southway Crane & Rigging headquartered in Macon, Georgia. With this acquisition, TNT further diversified it's client base because of Southway's strong presence in the Power, Pulp & Paper, Telecom and Mining industries.
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TNT Makes More Acquisitions and Expands Into Iowa and Canada
In 2014, TNT acquires Rent-A-Crane in Oklahoma, and Stampede Crane and Eagle West Crane in Canada. The acquisition of Stampede Crane and Eagle West Crane provided a strong entrance into the rapidly growing energy end-markets in Western Canada. TNT also opens a branch in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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TNT Acquires
RMS Crane in Colorado
The acquisition of RMS Crane expands TNT’s contiguous geographic coverage, end-market exposure and fleet composition with the addition of three Colorado branches and 66 cranes. RMS serves the manufacturing, industrial, cell tower, power, commercial and construction markets as well as other end markets throughout the Rocky Mountain Region.
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TNT Opens a Branch
in Freeport TX
The addition of the Freeport branch expands TNT’s Branch network to 43 locations strategically positioned throughout North America.
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TNT Crane & Rigging is One of the
Largest Providers of Hydraulic
Truck Cranes in North America.
Operating regionally as TNT Crane & Rigging, Southway Crane & Rigging, Eagle West Cranes, Stampede Crane & Rigging, and RMS Cranes, our family of companies comprises 38 branches and more than 610 cranes in our fleet.
We look forward to serving all your heavy lifting needs.
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