What’s Your Preparedness Plan?

Utilities, contractors and municipalities have a big job to do when natural disasters strike. Being prepared for natural disaster is the only way to make it through these tough times. Altec is here to help you make wise decisions that will contribute to a successful preparedness plan that will bring you and your fleet through the toughest times.

Plan to stay in business

When the power is out, the community relies on you to get them reconnected and back in business as quick as possible. With a wide variety of electric utility, telecom and tree care equipment to fit any budget, Altec has the products you need to re-energize your customers.

Altec Capital has a dedicated team to help purchase the needed equipment in your fleet through leasing and loan options that make sense for your budget. Find a leasing option that will improve cash flow and increase your overall profitability.

Altec’s Global Rental offers no minimum period rental requirements to help you make the best decisions without the pressure of deciding how long you will need to rent needed equipment. When the rental environment is at peak utilization during a natural disaster, it is critical to act fast to make sure you have the right amount of equipment to get the power back on.

Immediately after a disaster, affected Altec customers receive a list of available rental equipment and can reserve what they need depending on the size and scope of the event.

Protect Your Investment

When you make an investment in Altec equipment, we want to make sure you have plenty of resources available throughout the lifecycle of your fleet. To ensure your equipment is in work-ready shape during disaster recovery, Altec offers a 12-month preventative maintenance inspection. The preventative maintenance inspection can be performed at one of our 27 service centers located throughout the U.S. and Canada or one of our fully stocked mobile service trucks will come directly to you.

The best way to protect your crew is to give them the knowledge they need to work safer and smarter. Altec Sentry Training offers OSHA/ANSI compliant instructor-led and online training tools to ensure your crew is ready to put your investment to the safest use possible.

Communicate to Your People

Often when thinking of communication, the focus is on what happens during an event, and it should be. But, just as important may be developing some strong relationships and communication practices beforehand.

Make sure to have a well-established plan and practice good disaster communication before you need it. Coordinating recovering efforts or even getting maintenance parts and equipment to correct locations can be difficult.

Larger disasters can cause cell phone communication to be disrupted or, at best, unreliable. Establish specific meeting places and locations to get supplies and help, and pre-planned processes for delivery.

In the end, the purpose of being prepared is to make the restoration quicker and safer. The point of planning ahead is to remove minutes, when minutes count. It’s people that work the lines, trucks and poles when the work of restoration begins. And it’s the people that ultimately make a difference.