Crane and Heavy Equipment Rental in Arlington, TX

No cost guide we found prints an Arlington crane rate, so these are national numbers. A crane pricing guide that a national equipment-rental marketplace posted on April 27, 2026 lists hourly averages of $200-$500 for small cranes, $300-$700 for mobile cranes and $500-$1,500 for large cranes, puts an operator at $50-$150 more per hour, and notes daily minimums that run three to eight hours. The cost page lists every published crane and equipment range beside its source, with the public permit fees; the written quote prices your actual job.

Yes, under federal rules, and on a bare rental that operator is yours to provide. OSHA section 1926.1427 obliges the employer to see that every crane operator is trained, holds a certification or license, and passes an evaluation, and a certificate from an accredited testing organization remains valid for 5 years. One such body is NCCCO, whose 2023 candidate handbook reports accreditation from the ANSI National Accreditation Board. When you book an operated crane, the operator arrives with it and the rule still applies. Cranes rated to hoist 2,000 pounds or less are handled under section 1926.1441 instead.

Yes, if the crew follows federal and Texas limits. OSHA section 1926.1408 covers lines of 350 kV or less: when a crane, its load line or its load might pass within 20 feet, the employer picks one of three paths, which are a deenergized and grounded line, a 20-foot gap kept at all times, or the Table A gap for the voltage the utility confirms. State law goes further. Texas Health and Safety Code chapter 752 sets a six-foot buffer around high-voltage lines that holds until the line's operator gets 48 hours' notice and agrees on a safeguard with the party doing the work, who pays the operator's actual expense.

In most cases it does. Under section 6.06 of the City's Streets and Sidewalks chapter, restricting traffic on a street or sidewalk takes a Temporary Traffic Control Permit, which goes to Public Works five or more business days ahead with a traffic control plan and proof of insurance and bonds. Restrictions shorter than four hours in one day are exempt, but not when they recur at one location within 30 days. The form asks for three or more business days of review time, the plan fee is $50, and ignoring the permit risks a fine of $500 a day. State highways also need TxDOT's sign-off.

Not in City right-of-way on the last business day before any special event: Arlington's Right-of-Way Manual allows no Entertainment District work that day. Right-of-way work within two miles of the district also needs a pre-construction meeting five or more business days before work starts. On event days, police switch on no-parking signs a full 24 hours ahead of enforcement, which starts roughly three hours before the event, and vehicles left in signed zones can be towed. The City has also run reversible lanes on Collins and Division streets for Cowboys home games. Your quote notes which of these limits the date must clear.

It does whenever the crane breaks one of the FAA's notice tests in 14 CFR 77.9. A crane whose tip will stand more than 200 feet over the ground at its site needs notice wherever it is, and so does one that rises through an imaginary 100:1 slope extending 20,000 feet from the runways of any airport with a runway longer than 3,200 feet; DFW's 13,400-foot runways qualify. FAA Form 7460-1 lists a crane as a temporary structure, and section 77.7 sets filing at 45 days or more before work. Building at Arlington Municipal itself also takes the City's prior written approval under its airport rules.

That depends on how the bill is written, under Rule 3.294 of the Texas Comptroller. Renting a machine with no operator is a taxable rental. Supplying a machine and its operator for a single price is presumed a service and draws no tax, except where that service is itself taxable under the Tax Code. Billing the machine and the operator as separate items is presumed a lease, and the machine's share is taxed. Damage waivers and delivery charges on rentals are taxed too. Arlington's combined rate is 8.25 percent: 6.25 percent for the state and 2 percent for the city in the Comptroller's city table. Every charge and any tax appears on its own quote line.

The lift gets adjusted or shut down. The competent person must allow for wind when setting up and running the equipment, under OSHA section 1926.1417(n), and Liebherr's guidance is that crane capacity tables generally hold only for gusts up to 20 mph; once wind exceeds the speed a load chart allows, the crane must stop. Lifting workers in a platform brings OSHA section 1926.1431 into play, which has a qualified person decide on the lift whenever wind tops 20 mph. On average April is DFW's windiest month, per NWS Fort Worth. We move weather-delayed lifts to a new date under the standby terms written into the quote.

Yes. The Texas811 homeowner guide asks for a call two business days ahead of digging, weekends and holidays excluded, and marking the lines is free; if a contractor is doing the digging, the call is the contractor's to make. Oncor's safety page sets the trigger at digging 16 inches or deeper. Federal excavation rule 29 CFR 1926.651 also has the employer estimate where underground utilities run before opening a trench or pit. Either we or you place the call the way Texas law requires, and the excavator rental page goes through the trench rules.

Yes. Besides Arlington, we quote work in Bedford, Burleson, Cedar Hill, Euless, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Hurst, Irving, Kennedale and Mansfield. A mobile crane over the Texas legal width or weight travels on a TxDMV permit; for $100 a year, the Unladen Lift Equipment permit covers a crane as wide as 10 feet and as heavy as 120,000 pounds gross. TxDMV's weekday curfew for oversize vehicles in Tarrant County exempts mobile cranes. In each of those cities we check the street rules the city publishes, as we do for Arlington.