One of the highlights of Joe Gibbs’ career came in the early 1990s, when he was still working under mentor Bob Reisinger. Gibbs would work with that professional engineer and long-standing member of US ASME B30 standards committee, now retired, for a total of 24 years.
Together, they re-worked the old Work-Rated hoist line from the 1970s and finished with the Speedway line. Reisinger was responsible for the engineering, and Gibbs helped make sure the design fit the market needs.
The project also spanned a transition in Gibbs’s career into his current role, sales and marketing manager. “When I took over in 1996, the market was not great, but we had done well,” he says, due to the Speedway wire rope hoist.
Reisinger also encouraged his participation in the MHIA committees – he was the president of the Monorail Manufacturers’ Association in 2004-2005.
