Tag: Pennsylvania: Page 3

Roadbuilding

I-81 resurfacing project in Pa. begins, thanks to Resurface PA initiative

The $15.6M resurfacing project will include milling, patching, and paving I-81, not to mention pavement markings and guide rail upgrades. Learn more today.

August 24, 2018

Roadbuilding

Roadbotics’s windshield-mounted system speeds up road condition data collection

Learn more about how Roadbotics's new systems improve and speed up road condition data collection on Equipment World.

August 6, 2018

Roadbuilding

Blast downs last piece of old Harrison Ave. Bridge in Scranton in seconds

The new bridge that took its place opened to traffic in December 2017, and demolition of the old bridge began in April 2018. Watch the video on Equipment World.

July 12, 2018

Dealers

Volvo CE promotes McCall to VP of key accounts

McCall has been with Volvo for 12 years, previously serving as government, sales and marketing manager and will now report to the president of the Americas region.

June 22, 2018

Death by Trench

Expect more criminal charges in trench deaths

June 11, 2018

Telematics

Volvo CE says ActiveCare Direct service takes “the noise out of telematics data”

Almost all of the customers who had a year of the service for free have re-enrolled in the company’s ActiveCare Direct fee-based subscription service. More here.

June 1, 2018

Dealers

MH Equipment’s Evansville branch relocates, doubles in size

This move will double the size of its facilities in the city and gives the company additional capacity to grow its rental products. More on Equipment World.

May 30, 2018

Roadbuilding

Penn. bridge demolition interrupted by unexpected collapse

As Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) crews worked to slowly and carefully bring down the 100-year-old Harrison Avenue Bridge in Scranton over Central Scranton Expressway on April 19, one span of the bridge came crashing down unexpectedly, WNEP News reports. The expressway had been closed to traffic for several hours before the demolition began, and […]

May 1, 2018

Dealers

H&K becomes largest Taylor forklift distributor in Mid-Atlantic

H&K Equipment has expanded its territory to become the largest distributor of Taylor Machine Works forklifts in the Mid-Atlantic region. H&K now provides sales, service and support for Taylor products in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, and Garrett and Allegany counties in Maryland. Its affiliate Taylor Northeast already covered eastern […]

April 30, 2018

Roadbuilding

From demo to done, PennDOT uses precast concrete for quick I-78 bridge project

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) District 5-0 reports that its Interstate 78 project in Berks County, which featured multiple bridges built using innovative construction practices and precast concrete materials, was successfully completed in 8.5 months, rather than four years. All six bridges were completely designed and constructed with prestressed and precast concrete members produced […]

April 18, 2018

Roadbuilding

Cranes lift girders into place on Penn.’s Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway bridge

The video below was taken on February 20 and captures the placement of the first steel girders on the bridge piers of the Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway project (CSVT) bridge. PennLive reports that the 4,500-foot-long bridge will carry traffic over the West Branch of the Susquehanna River in Union Township, Union County, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department […]

March 8, 2018

Roadbuilding

Is your state red, yellow or green in new traffic-safety law ratings?

Six states and the District of Columbia earned good ratings and 13 states received poor ratings in a recent report gauging the number of traffic safety laws a state has enacted. The rest were deemed yellow, for caution. The 2018 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws rates all the states and the District of Columbia […]

January 26, 2018