I work in an industry that constantly is calling upon mobile cranes to come to job sites to perform various tasks. These mobile cranes are just like the giant ones you see building sky-scrapers except they are mounted on trucks and not nearly as large. There are generally two categories of these machines - large and small. The large cranes used to rule the landscape as they had the carrying capacity needed for most jobs. However with the advent of building technologies more sections of buildings are being made off-site and then placed by cranes when they arrive. These sections have continually gotten lighter and smaller and as such the large cranes are not as needed as they used to be. Smaller cranes can handle most of the work now. This has lead to a glut of large cranes sitting idle and not making any money, thus not paying off the investment made in them in the first place. The smaller cranes are owned by different companies than the large cranes. The large crane companies have been petitioning the government to have a safety rule implemented that would restrict any mobile crane to only be allowed to lift HALF of it's maximum carrying capacity. This would put the smaller crane companies out of business and force the hire of the larger, now obselete, crane companies.

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