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Navistar names PACCAR veteran Bill Kozek VP of North America Truck and Parts

Navistar names PACCAR veteran Bill Kozek VP of North...

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 20, 2013

Bill Kozek Bill Kozek, a 26-year veteran of PACCAR, has been named president of Navistar's North America Truck and Parts business. Kozek, ...

Bloomberg profile of Caterpillar CEO focuses on gap between profits and worker pay

Bloomberg profile of Caterpillar CEO focuses on gap...

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 20, 2013

Bloomberg Businessweek recently profiled Caterpillar CEO Doug Olberhelman, pulling very few punches in the process. The profile refers to Olberhelman as ...

Lawsuit targets Ford’s EcoBoost V-6 for malfunctioning at highway speeds

Lawsuit targets Ford’s EcoBoost V-6 for...

Equipment

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 20, 2013

Ford's 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine. Three vehicle owners, a married couple and one other person, are suing Ford due to ...

Energy boom contributes to Houston’s shortage of skilled construction workers

Energy boom contributes to Houston’s shortage of...

Workforce

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 20, 2013

Like just about every other metro area of the country, the Houston-area construction industry is feeling the negative effects of ...

GEAR: OX flat-pack truck carries 2.2 tons, can be assembled by hand in 11.5 hours

GEAR: OX flat-pack truck carries 2.2 tons, can be...

Equipment

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 17, 2013

Meet the Ox. This innovative truck is the brainchild of Sir Torquil Norman and is designed to specifically meet the ...

Construction crew solves the Salem mystery of St. Joseph’s statue

Construction crew solves the Salem mystery of St....

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 17, 2013

Credit: Planning Office for Urban Affairs For 64 years people in Salem, Massachusetts wondered "Where did St. Joseph go?" Between 1911 ...

Truckers can’t miss Australia’s water curtain stop signs (VIDEO)

Truckers can’t miss Australia’s water...

Innovations

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 17, 2013

Via our sister site Better Roads and the always entertaining Jalopnik, when faced with the rampant problem of semi trucks ...

Skilled construction worker shortage already stifling economic recovery

Skilled construction worker shortage already stifling...

Workforce

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 17, 2013

It looks like Executive Editor Tom Jackson's fear of construction's current labor shortage stifling the economic recovery is already coming ...

Home construction boosts full-size pickup truck resale value by 7%

Home construction boosts full-size pickup truck resale...

Equipment

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 16, 2013

The resale value of three-year-old full-size pickup trucks has increased 7 percent in the past year, according to a ...

Housing starts tumble 16.5% in April, but surge in permits suggests continued recovery

Housing starts tumble 16.5% in April, but surge in...

Business

Posted by Wayne Grayson on May 16, 2013

The start of construction on homes fell drastically in April, one month after reaching a level of home starts the ...

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