History of Hiab

We thought you all might like to see again were it all began back in the late 1940's. The name, Hiab, comes from the commonly used abbreviation of Hydrauliska Industri AB, a company founded in Hudiksvall, Sweden 1944 by Eric Sundin, a ski manufacturer who saw a way to utilize a truck's engine to power loader cranes through the use of hydraulics. Hiab invented the world's first hydraulic truck mounted crane in 1947.