Shawmut

Shawmut at 60

other product lines through the years, but our expertise and passion has always been with cranes.”

The company started out by representing cranes manufactured by Lorain, an Ohio firm that produced the first rubber-tired crane. Six years after its opening, Shawmut became a Grove Crane distributor, one of the first in the country. The territory was Connecticut and western Massachusetts. Representing Grove proved to be a beneficial move for Shawmut Equipment because Grove continued to be a pioneering crane manufacturing firm.

Just a decade before O’Connell opened his dealership, Pennsylvanian John L. Grove designed and built the first mobile hydraulic industrial crane. By 1963, when Shawmut became a distributor, Grove had become a leader in the international crane market. It eventually introduced to the industry the rough-terrain crane and the trape-

In 1957, George O’Connell opened a crane dealership he named Shawmut Equipment.

The rest is history—for Shawmut Equipment, a history of steadily expanding business volume and territory. When Dave O’Connell, the son of the company founder and president of the firm, was asked if his father envisioned his fledgling company growing into a regional and international firm, he responded, “I can’t say. I just know he was an entrepreneur who decided to go into business for himself. I do think he would be pleased by where the company is today.”

George O’Connell got into the crane business after working as an equipment manager for a Hartford, Conn., construction company. “He’d had quite a bit of experience with cranes,” his son recalls, “so he was familiar with the machinery. We’ve been involved with cranes ever since. We’ve had numerous

In 1957, George O’Connell opened a crane dealership he named Shawmut Equipment.

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(L-R): Vice President Brian O’Connell; President Dave O’Connell; Vice President Kevin O’Connell; and Vice President Joe Vergoni, standing in front of a brand new Grove TMS9000-2.

zoidal boom, among other innovations. Today, Grove’s mobile hydraulic cranes range from 8.5 tons to 550 tons—and its cranes are a staple of Shawmut Equipment’s business.

In 1995, the other critical piece of the company’s machinery line-up was added when Shawmut Equipment became the exclusive New England dealer for Manitowoc. During the same period, Grove appointed Shawmut as the sole distributor in New England.

Wisconsin-headquartered Manitowoc began building lattice boom crawler cranes in the 1920s. As the 20th century ended, the company was aggressively building out its product line. Several years after signing its dealership agreement with Shawmut, Manitowoc and Grove merged, bringing Manitowoc, Grove, National and Potain into one company.

The merger of Grove and Manitowoc was an easy transition for

Shawmut Equipment. Dave O’Connell calls it a “very positive development,” because of its impact on the companies’ products. “The companies have learned from each other. They clearly understand the broader crane market. They offer their customers more uniformity in their product lines. Company organizations were streamlined and there is one product support center now. They’ve been working toward common crane control systems to make it easy for operators who are moving from one crane to another.”

Like the Grove mobile hydraulic cranes, Manitowoc crawler cranes are the mainstay of Shawmut Equipment’s business. O’Connell describes the Manitowoc product as “the premier crawler crane on the market. It stays current in its technology, with such features as variable position counterweights, new computer systems and new operating sys-

Vice President Brian O’Connell and Marketing Director Kate Costelloe.

Shawmut’s parts department at the South Easton, Mass., facility.

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A Shawmut technician performs routine maintenance on a Manitowoc crawler crane in the yard.

Two Shawmut technicians perform a delivery inspection on the new Grove TMS90002 hydraulic truck crane.

tems.” of the firm and focus on The entire line-up of sales and management. cranes is comprehensive.

Kate Costelloe, Dave’s Cranes for sale and rent at niece, joined the company Shawmut include the folsix years ago as the marlowing types: lattice boom keting director, working to crawler, telescopic crawler, generate leads and assist rough-terrain, all-terrain, the sales force. hydraulic truck, industrial, Dave O’Connell has boom trucks, self-erecting said he is “extremely fortuand tower. nate” to have his sons, Dave O’Connell came nephew and niece “deeply aboard in the 1960s. After involved in this family joining the firm, he worked business. They are learning his way through the organthe same business values ization, becoming presi- Shawmut’s fully stocked parts warehouse at the South Easton, Mass., facility. from me that I learned dent in 1978. By the time from my father.” his father passed away in 1989, the reins of the company were firmly in In 2008, Shawmut Equipment expanded across the Canadian border. family hands.

The Manitowoc organization named Shawmut Equipment its distributor For its first 40 years, Shawmut Equipment served customers in New for the Maritime provinces of Canada. The territory is comprised of three England from its Manchester, Conn., office. With the extended regional provinces—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. responsibility handed to the firm by Manitowoc and Grove, the need for The Canadian territory is a natural northeast extension of the New a second office became evident. Dave O’Connell opened a second full- England states of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New service facility in Massachusetts.

Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.

Over the years, the number of family members working for the comThe expansion northward came at a good time. Joe Vergoni, who is pany grew. After graduating from college, Dave’s sons, Brian and Kevin, president of Shawmut Equipment of Canada, says the transition to doing joined the firm, as did Dave’s nephew, Joe Vergoni. Once they decided business in Canada went smoothly. There were some new back office to become company men, they followed the same career path as their procedures to learn. “We had to learn about a different currency,” Dave father and uncle. “We all decided we wanted to be at Shawmut O’Connell says, “and about Canadian tax laws and regulations. I think Equipment for the rest of our careers,” Kevin O’Connell says. “We during the almost 10 years since we expanded, we’ve become pretty learned the business through parts and service. We are all active in the knowledgeable about doing business in Canada.” Cultural differences sales department but have different roles.” All three are now executives across borders were minimal and popular machines in the crane product 5

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Shawmut Equipment has a fleet of 20 fully equipped service trucks for 24-hour onsite service.

Shawmut has a large fleet of new and used equipment available in order to find the right machine to meet customer needs.

Shawmut has three full-service facilities in Manchester, Conn., South Easton, Mass., and Saint John, NB, Canada.

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line in the United States translated, almost model for model, to Canada.

Shawmut Equipment’s Canadian headquarters is in Saint John, New Brunswick. The company is currently building a new facility in Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, just outside of Halifax. The new building will have state-ofthe-art repair bays, as well as a large parts warehouse and storage area. Upon the opening of the new facility, the company’s existing location in New Brunswick will continue to function as a service and parts center.

Shawmut Equipment recently began offering utility construction equipment including; tracked material handling buckets, tracked digger derricks, tracked cranes, and rubber track dump bodies. The utility equipment expansion has been a success fueled by the continued demand for energy and infrastructure improvements in the United States and Canada. The equipment is used for the construction and maintenance of distribution and transmission power lines. This expansion came organically as Shawmut was already providing customers with cranes for utility construction projects. Cranes typically used on utility construction projects include; tele boom crawler cranes, boom trucks, industrial cranes and rough terrain cranes. “Utility equipment rental is a very similar concept to our crane business” says O’Connell. “It has allowed us to expand the products and solutions we offer our customers.”

So what are some of the “business values” that Dave O’Connell is passing along to the next generation? “We treat our customers fairly,” O’Connell says. “We constantly try to earn the long-time loyalty of our customers as opposed to just making a quick sale. Among our customers, there is an expectation of high-quality service and quick responses to problems. We try to meet those expectations. This was true for the company when my father ran it and it is still true today.”

One way to meet service expectations is to continually train technicians. Says O’Connell: “We understand that an equipment dealer is only as strong as its service department, and that’s something we focus upon. We try to attract and keep the highest caliber service technicians, managers and parts people. And we devote a very significant amount of time to the training of our service people to be sure they are knowledgeable and familiar with the latest technology and advancements.”

Shawmut Equipment technicians attend factory training courses and, according to O’Connell, routinely score highest among their industry peers on factory tests.

“Shawmut technicians are rated among the best in North America.”

The company has technicians concentrating on specific crane product lines. “We have some technicians who focus on Grove GMK all-terrain cranes. Others focus on Grove rough-terrain cranes. Others focus on Manitowoc lattice crawler cranes. Others on National boom trucks, and so on. These products are all cranes, but represent a wide range of different technologies.” O’Connell says technicians are certified by Manitowoc as specialists in one crane product line or another only after completing multiple courses on the subject.

To send out these trained technicians, Shawmut Equipment has a fleet of 20 fully equipped service trucks for in-the-field repairs. This support work is being enhanced by telematics. The long-distance monitoring of equipment helps Shawmut technicians know the history of individual machines and guide their trouble-shooting in order to solve problems quickly and effectively.

“We have a relatively young group of technicians who are not afraid of computer technologies and the latest innovations,” O’Connell says.

New-hires are teamed with veteran employees, some of whom have been with Shawmut Equipment for many years.

“We work very hard to earn each deal,” he said. “I don’t think we can ever rest on our laurels and take anything for granted. We have to stay sharp and keep our focus on customer support. It’s a competitive industry, and if we don’t stay on top of things, we can quickly lose the success we’ve enjoyed so far.”

(This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website

Shawmut opened an additional facility in Massachusetts to better serve their customers in the greater Boston area.

at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)

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