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Roadbuilding

A sneak peak at Liebherr’s bauma intros

Still cold, still windy in Munich. But OEMs keep presenting sneak peeks at what they will deliver to the huge  bauma show here in April. Liebherr will present its new modular design 150 EC-B flat-top crane, designed to offer customers a wide range of machine configuration to give them the maximum efficiency an cost control […]

January 29, 2013

Roadbuilding

Pre-bauma Cat coverage: hybrid excavator 336EH will be centerpiece

I’m here in Munich at a pre-bauma series of press conferences in a windy and cold city. Caterpillar will put on a really big show at bauma in April. The centerpiece will be the hybrid excavator 336EH. Our readers will know something about the new machine from the work done by Editorial Director Marcia Gruver […]

January 29, 2013

Roadbuilding

So we leave the kids debt AND crumbling infrastructure?

Failure to spend $157 billion between now and 2020 to upgrade the U.S. infrastructure, including surface transportation, aviation, waterways, the electrical grid and sewers, could lead to losses of more than $3.1 trillion in gross domestic product and $1.1 trillion in total trade — as well as a loss of 3.5 million jobs, according to […]

January 16, 2013

Roadbuilding

Whispering the T Word

TAX! Nothing like shouting a three-letter word ending in X to get your attention. But no, we’re not talking income tax. The gas tax is back on a table in Washington. The 18.3 cents a gallon tax, un-indexed and unchanged in almost 20 years, is the now inadequate basis of our highway system funding. It’s […]

December 5, 2012

Roadbuilding

Don’t just sit there, vote for something important

Got a note from AED, and it’s a timely reminder that potential voters sometimes need to be turned into actual voters. We all know the credibility chasm with many, many people who say they are going to vote but don’t. AED works closely with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on many key issues of primary […]

October 19, 2012

Roadbuilding

For whom the toll bills

We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges,We know that one of the key reasons that raising the gas tax was never considered an option as legislators (read: re-electable politicians) knew that the public doesn't trust them to use additional tax money purely for highways and bridges

October 9, 2012

Roadbuilding

Reporter

Canadian new construction spending continues to rise As the construction sector in the United States crawls … ever soooo slowwwwwly … toward recovery, the relatively smaller market immediately to the north continues to generally churn on. Spending on new construction in Canada will rise to $301.4 billion (Cdn) by 2014, says Alex Carrick, chief economist […]

June 30, 2011