360 Crane Services and Maintenance
expands service and scope with common
sense human business focus
Canadian Design and Construction Report special feature
Now in its tenth year in business,
Surrey, B.C. based 360 Crane Services
and Maintenance offers a wide range of
services including truck rentals, recy-
cling, towing, snowplowing and con-
struction services. The company
recently made headlines when it
reached out with an offer of employ-
ment to two homeless men.
Various news agencies reported that
two men had been offered work and
given one-way bus tickets to B.C. after
one was denied funding to continue staying at a shelter in North
Battleford, SK. CBC had quoted 360 Crane’s owner Jason Stennes
at the time as saying: “I’m one of those guys that if I’m at a red
light and there’s somebody begging for change and he’s 20 years
old, I offer him a job. I give people a chance. It’s just what I do.”
While one of the men was not able to remain at work in the
field due to health issues, the other used the offer as a stepping
stone to get back on his feet, becoming one of the almost 80 people
The 360 Group employs, before moving on to new employment.
Dan Norman, 360 Crane’s vice president and general manager,
says just as Stennes (also known as Stretch) applies a common
sense approach to life and dealing with people, he also applies that
same common sense to business. He says he had a dream to expand
where viable demand existed and has grown the company, division
by division, according to that. “The recycling divisions are the fu-
ture for our planet and are growing steadily each and every year.
Location, demand and ease of use has driven 360 Recycling and
360 Bumpers and Plastics on a steadily increasing profit margin.”
He says the company’s trucking division was a perfect compli-
ment to its light/medium weight material hauling and vehicle tow-
ing. The company is able to use its own trucks for a majority of its
interdivisional hauling and towing. 360 Crane Truck Rental and
360 Towing, he says, is ready at a moment’s notice.
The company’s snow removal division was purchased as a
complete turnkey operation to meet the needs of small shops, strip
malls, and parking lots. “Two plow trucks with large capacity salt-
ing hoppers handle the large areas while a team of two quads with
blades handle the areas where the big trucks can’t get to. Driven
to keep businesses open and the public safe is 360 Snow Plow Ser-
vice’s main goal.”
Norman says 360 Cranes and Maintenance has supplied man-
power for tower crane set up and demobilization for eight years.
“Coming from rigging and operating tower cranes in the Vancou-
ver area for 17 years, Stretch found a demand to supply operators
and riggers for the construction industry, not only in B.C., but also
into Alberta.”
He says skilled personnel are hand picked by Stretch himself,
to get the job done in one of the industry’s most skill-oriented jobs.
“We work hand in hand with Worksafe BC to keep our crane divi-
sion on the leading edge of safety and reliability to give the client
peace of mind that things will run smoothly
in crane operations.”
While this is the tenth year for the com-
pany overall, it is also the first anniversary of
the company’s 360 Construction division.
“Even though The 360 Group has supplied
carpenters for three years to other large com-
panies in the Lower Mainland, we have now
been our own construction company for one
year.” Norman says 360 Construction has grown
to be a contender in the concrete forming in-
dustry. During its first year the company constructed a 14-storey
tower and a 244,000 sq. ft. parkade. “At present we are completing
a project that was abandoned by another form work company and
started a small four level commercial/office project near Granville
Island.” He says more work is on the horizon, for this and all of The 360
Group’s divisions, as the market is booming in the Vancouver area.
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