Lift plan software for HIABs and lorry loaders

You ask for it using the form on this page and the account is set up by hand, usually the same working day. You get an email with your sign-in details. The trial runs for 14 days with everything switched on — there is no cut-down version — and then it stops on its own. No card is taken at any point and there is nothing to cancel.

Because every account is set up personally while the product is new. It takes a few minutes and it means you get a short conversation about what you lift and on what, rather than a password and an empty screen. It also means your machines can be checked before you start.

Lorry loaders — Fassi, Palfinger, HIAB, Effer, Atlas, Kennis, Maxilift and Cormach among them, more than 1,900 in total. Some carry full published duty charts and stabiliser geometry; others hold moments, outreach and weights. The application says which it holds for any machine you pick, and it says so plainly rather than filling a gap with an assumption.

Yes. It installs to the device and the whole application, including the machine database, works with no connection. That was a requirement rather than a feature: a lift plan gets opened in a compound with no signal, and software that locks you out at that moment is worse than the paperwork it replaced.

Yes. The application ships unbranded — you put your own company name, logo, address and accent colour in on first run, and that branding appears on every document and in the title block of every drawing. The packs you produce are your documents, issued under your name and your competence.

No, and it is built so it cannot pretend to. It does the arithmetic, holds the published figures and produces the paperwork. Deciding whether a lift is safe is a competent person’s judgement and stays with them. Where a figure is not published the application refuses and says so rather than producing a number, and the load chart fitted to the actual machine always governs.

A complete pack: cover, job details, the appliance and its duties, the schedule of loads, rigging, ground bearing and mats, the method and sequence of operations, a 5 x 5 risk assessment, the 18-point compliance review, pre-lift checks and a briefing and attendance sheet — plus A3 general arrangement, plan and rigging drawings. It prints to PDF and every sheet carries the document number, revision and issue reference.

No, and it is worth being clear about the difference. A template is a blank document you fill in yourself, and there is a free one on this site if that is all you need. This produces the finished plan: you pick the machine and it brings its published duty chart with it, you pick the loads and the schedule fills itself in, and the ALLMI calculation, the risk assessment, the drawings and the 18-point review come out the other end as one pack under your own branding. Most people who start with a template end up wanting this, because the template does not know what a PK 62002 lifts at 7 m.

Both — they are the same machine. HIAB is a manufacturer whose name became the everyday word for a loader crane, in the way Hoover did for vacuum cleaners. The database holds more than 1,900 of them across Fassi, Palfinger, HIAB, Effer, Atlas, Kennis, Maxilift and Cormach, so whichever name is on the door of the cab, the machine is in there.

One seat, billed monthly or yearly, with unlimited plans and unlimited machines on that seat. Current prices are on the pricing page in the application itself. Nobody is charged anything during the trial and the trial does not roll into a subscription by itself.