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Roadbuilding

Natural Gas for High Horsepower (HHP) Summit 2013

Registration is now open for the Natural Gas for High Horsepower (HHP) Summit 2013, a North American conference on the power and potential of natural gas fuel for marine, rail, E&P, mining, earthmoving, and off-pipeline industrial applications. Early bird registration for HHP Summit 2013 is available through April 30. Scheduled for Sept. 17-19 in Chicago, […]

March 11, 2013

Business

Caterpillar names Tom Bluth VP of Mining Products

Caterpillar announced today that Tom Bluth will be moving from his post as vice president of the company’s Earthmoving Division to become vice president for Mining Products. Bluth replaces Luis De Leon, who left the company shortly after an accounting scheme was uncovered at Zhengzhou Siwei Mechanical & Electrical Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of ERA Mining […]

February 15, 2013

Safety

HHP Summit: The safety of LNG

When the average person views Liquified Natural Gas as a dangerous, toxic fuel, liable to explode at the slightest spark, what’s an LNG provider to do?  Try wielding beakers and balloons much like Bill Nye the Science Guy might.  That’s how Erik Neandross, CEO of Gladstein, Neandross and Associates, demonstrated the safety, simplicity and non-toxic […]

September 26, 2012

Roadbuilding

Tire Technology

Your earthmover tires are a critical component of uptime, cost control and profitability.

July 4, 2012

Roadbuilding

Dexter + Chaney: Full-featured web-based construction software

Dexter + Chaney is launching at World of Concrete 2012 in Las Vegas a new version of its Spectrum Construction Software as well as a completely new product line aimed at the needs of construction operations professionals. The latest version of Spectrum software will be released as a full-featured web-based product. Spectrum Version 14 will […]

January 18, 2012

Roadbuilding

Trimble: Tracks earthworks and compaction progress remotely

Trimble’s version 2.3 of its Web-based construction application – VisionLink software powered by Trimble – integrates asset and fleet management services with new 3D Project Monitoring functionality and production output tools. The software combines earthmoving, grading, finishing, compaction and asset and fleet management operations into one application. It allows contractors to track earthworks and compaction […]

January 18, 2012

Roadbuilding

Trimble: Integrates asset, fleet management services with 3D project monitoring

Trimble’s version 2.3 of its Web-based construction application — VisionLink software powered by Trimble — integrates asset and fleet management services with new 3D Project Monitoring functionality and production output tools. ,Trimble’s version 2.3 of its Web-based construction application — VisionLink software powered by Trimble — integrates asset and fleet management services with new 3D Project Monitoring functionality and production output tools. ,Trimble’s version 2.3 of its Web-based construction application — VisionLink software powered by Trimble — integrates asset and fleet management services with new 3D Project Monitoring functionality and production output tools. ,Trimble’s version 2.3 of its Web-based construction application — VisionLink software powered by Trimble — integrates asset and fleet management services with new 3D Project Monitoring functionality and production output tools. ,Trimble’s version 2.3 of its Web-based construction application — VisionLink software powered by Trimble — integrates asset and fleet management services with new 3D Project Monitoring functionality and production output tools. ,Trimble’s version 2.3 of its Web-based construction application — VisionLink software powered by Trimble — integrates asset and fleet management services with new 3D Project Monitoring functionality and production output tools. ,Trimble’s version 2.3 of its Web-based construction application — VisionLink software powered by Trimble — integrates asset and fleet management services with new 3D Project Monitoring functionality and production output tools.

October 12, 2011

Roadbuilding

Mike Anderson’s American Iron

Everyone goes home from the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s Asphalt in Depth with great expert information. But, equally if not more significantly, attendees also go home with nuggets of anecdotes, advice and perhaps even scuttlebutt from their peers

July 7, 2011

Construction Equipment

A construction machinery fantasy league?

I’ve heard of fanasty football leagues but never a fantasy construction equipment league. But that’s essentially what the Backhoe Challenge is. Yesterday, as I went through magazines with a fine-tooth comb while helping to judge an editorial contest, I came across a news brief on the Backhoe Challenge. I was reading a magazine covering meeting and […]

January 11, 2010

Construction Equipment

Cat’s first auction

Caterpillar completed it’s first equipment auction November 12, in Des Moines, Iowa, at the facililties of McAnnich Corporation, a local earthmoving company. Donnie Wiggins, who heads up our Top Bid auction price guide team attended and said the event was well attended with 400 to 500 people. Prices were modest, says Wiggins, not surprising given the state […]

January 5, 2010