{"id":28872,"date":"2016-11-24T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T11:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=28872"},"modified":"2016-11-24T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T11:20:20","slug":"laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/","title":{"rendered":"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell mobile crane fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Laing O\u2019Rourke has revealed 11 mobile cranes will be sold from its Select Plant arm to Ainscough Crane Hire<\/h2>\n<p>Eleven mobile cranes will transfer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ainscough.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ainscough Crane Hire<\/a>, it has emerged. The deal between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laingorourke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laing O\u2019Rourke\u2019s<\/a> Select Plant Hire arm will also see some 15 members of staff move at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The contractor was quick to assure that this selloff did not represent wider plans to get rid of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectplanthire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Select Plant Hire<\/a> business and said it planned to invest in key parts of the fleet, meeting demands.<\/p>\n<h3>Efficiency and productivity<\/h3>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?s=Laing+O%27Rourke\" target=\"_blank\">Laing O\u2019Rourke<\/a> spokesperson said: \u201cAs part of the group\u2019s best practice we are continuously looking at improvements that we can make in the efficiency and productivity of our operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving assessed our mobile crane assets, we believe that the operational support of an external partner in this area will strengthen our offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have agreed to sell our mobile fleet to Ainscough Crane Hire, which currently meets 75 per cent of our mobile crane requirements, and we will continue to work with them on an ongoing basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe will continue to invest in the aspects of our Select Plant fleet required to meet the challenges of the complex projects Laing O\u2019Rourke is delivering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The transfer is expected to complete by the end of the month, and Ainscough Crane Hire said Select Plant have already begun the process of consultation with the relevant employees set to make the move.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laing O\u2019Rourke has revealed 11 mobile cranes will be sold from its Select Plant arm to Ainscough Crane Hire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-plant-equipment-supplies-news"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell its mobile crane fleet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Laing O\u2019Rourke has revealed 11 mobile cranes will be sold from its Select Plant arm to Ainscough Crane Hire under a new deal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell mobile crane fleet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Laing O\u2019Rourke has revealed 11 mobile cranes will be sold from its Select Plant arm to Ainscough Crane Hire under a new deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-24T11:20:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-11-24T11:20:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dreamstime_s_7179052.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lisa Carnwell\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@PBC_Today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PBC_Today\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lisa Carnwell\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a3c579395b9fa3afe1bb370843acfc38\"},\"headline\":\"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell mobile crane fleet\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-24T11:20:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-11-24T11:20:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/\"},\"wordCount\":259,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Plant, Equipment &amp; Supplies News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2016\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/\",\"name\":\"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell its mobile crane fleet\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-24T11:20:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-11-24T11:20:20+00:00\",\"description\":\"Laing O\u2019Rourke has revealed 11 mobile cranes will be sold from its Select Plant arm to Ainscough Crane Hire under a new deal\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell mobile crane fleet\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today\",\"description\":\"The Latest Planning, Building &amp; Construction News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Planning, Building & Construction Today\",\"alternateName\":\"PBC Today\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pbctoday-logo-yoast-seo-organisation-1920-1080-001.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pbctoday-logo-yoast-seo-organisation-1920-1080-001.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Planning, Building & Construction Today\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/PBC_Today\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a3c579395b9fa3afe1bb370843acfc38\",\"name\":\"Lisa Carnwell\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1fcf8fe4d0bb386422671c004870f9914448822f3ca1a741922d383c5a867e0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1fcf8fe4d0bb386422671c004870f9914448822f3ca1a741922d383c5a867e0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Lisa Carnwell\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/author\/lisa-carnwell\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell its mobile crane fleet","description":"Laing O\u2019Rourke has revealed 11 mobile cranes will be sold from its Select Plant arm to Ainscough Crane Hire under a new deal","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell mobile crane fleet","og_description":"Laing O\u2019Rourke has revealed 11 mobile cranes will be sold from its Select Plant arm to Ainscough Crane Hire under a new deal","og_url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/","og_site_name":"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/","article_published_time":"2016-11-24T11:20:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-11-24T11:20:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":533,"url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dreamstime_s_7179052.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Lisa Carnwell","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@PBC_Today","twitter_site":"@PBC_Today","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/"},"author":{"name":"Lisa Carnwell","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a3c579395b9fa3afe1bb370843acfc38"},"headline":"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell mobile crane fleet","datePublished":"2016-11-24T11:20:03+00:00","dateModified":"2016-11-24T11:20:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/"},"wordCount":259,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Plant, Equipment &amp; Supplies News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2016","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/","url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/","name":"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell its mobile crane fleet","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-11-24T11:20:03+00:00","dateModified":"2016-11-24T11:20:20+00:00","description":"Laing O\u2019Rourke has revealed 11 mobile cranes will be sold from its Select Plant arm to Ainscough Crane Hire under a new deal","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/laing-orourke-sell-mobile-crane-fleet\/28872\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Laing O\u2019Rourke reveals plans to sell mobile crane fleet"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/","name":"Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today","description":"The Latest Planning, Building &amp; Construction News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#organization","name":"Planning, Building & Construction Today","alternateName":"PBC Today","url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pbctoday-logo-yoast-seo-organisation-1920-1080-001.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pbctoday-logo-yoast-seo-organisation-1920-1080-001.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"caption":"Planning, Building & Construction Today"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBCToday\/","https:\/\/x.com\/PBC_Today"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a3c579395b9fa3afe1bb370843acfc38","name":"Lisa Carnwell","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1fcf8fe4d0bb386422671c004870f9914448822f3ca1a741922d383c5a867e0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1fcf8fe4d0bb386422671c004870f9914448822f3ca1a741922d383c5a867e0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Lisa Carnwell"},"url":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/author\/lisa-carnwell\/"}]}},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 14:43:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28872"},{"taxonomy":"stakeholder_rel_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stakeholder_rel_tag?post=28872"},{"taxonomy":"contributor_rel_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor_rel_tag?post=28872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}