LOWER POTTSGROVE >> A 50-ton crane driving over the wooden bridge headed to the Sunnybrook Ballroom crashed through the bridge and overturned into Sprogels Run at about 9:35 a.m. Monday. The driver of ...

The Manitex 5096s has a base rating of 50 tons at a six-foot radius — 25 percent greater than any other boom truck — and meets federal bridge laws riding on a tandem chassis with a tag axle.

The original plan to use two 150-ton capacity cranes would have put project behind schedule so contractor brought in one 285-ton Terex crane to do the work of two Big B Crane and sister company Basden ...