Mobile Crane Service Across Mohave County

How Far We Go and Why It Matters

Mohave County is one of the largest counties in the country. Claiming to cover all of it would be a lie, so here is the honest version. We are based in Lake Havasu City and we work outward from there along AZ-95 and Interstate 40. The practical range is around a hundred road miles, and inside that range the distance decides how the job gets booked rather than whether it gets done.

The part of the county north of the Grand Canyon is a different matter. Colorado City, Beaver Dam and Littlefield are all Mohave County, and they are all more than 230 road miles from here because the only way there runs up through Nevada and Utah. Anyone claiming county wide coverage is either not thinking about that or hoping you are not.

The Three Dispatch Tiers

Everything we do runs on drive time, so we sort the county into three tiers and we tell customers which one they are in.

Tier one is under 35 road miles. Lake Havasu City, Desert Hills, Crystal Beach, Topock and Golden Shores. Same day is usually workable if the morning is open, and an emergency call has a real chance of being answered the same afternoon.

Tier two is 35 to 60 road miles. Yucca, Mohave Valley, Willow Valley, Arizona Village, Fort Mohave, Oatman and Kingman. Same day is possible but it depends on the day's schedule. Give us a day or two of notice and it is straightforward.

Tier three is 60 to 100 road miles. Bullhead City, New Kingman-Butler, Golden Valley, Valle Vista, Chloride and Dolan Springs. Those get booked. They also work far better when two or three jobs in the same area go on the same trip, so if you know of other work nearby, tell us.

• Tier 1, under 35 miles: same day usually workable
• Tier 2, 35 to 60 miles: depends on the day's schedule
• Tier 3, 60 to 100 miles: booked ahead, better in batches

The County Is Not One Climate

There is close to three thousand feet of elevation difference between the river bottom and the high country around Kingman and Valle Vista. In July that difference decides what time of day work is safe. On the river we start at first light and try to be done by mid morning. Up around Kingman and the Cerbat foothills we can often work a full day.

It reverses in winter. Kingman gets frost, cold steel and the occasional snow day while Havasu is in shirtsleeves. Monsoon season, roughly July into September, hits everywhere and is the one thing that reliably cancels overhead work anywhere in the county.

Routes and the Traps in Them

Straight line distance is close to useless out here. The routes follow the river and the interstate, and anything that is not on one of them takes longer than the map says. The most important example is Oatman. A car gets there in 53 miles over Sitgreaves Pass. A boom truck cannot, because vehicles over 40 feet are prohibited on that pass, so the crane route goes around by the interstate and Bullhead City and is substantially longer.

That is exactly the kind of thing we would rather explain up front than discover on the day. When you call, tell us the town and we will tell you the real route, the real drive and the tier it falls into.