Tag: heavy machinery

Roadbuilding

Komatsu, NCDOT team up to give students first-hand look at construction jobs at Extreme Sandbox

Thanks to a grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Fund, 40 Warren County High School students from Warrenton (16 girls and 24 boys) took a 20-hour bus ride to the Extreme Sandbox in Hastings, Minn., to learn about construction industry jobs and learn to operate heavy equipment. The students were able to hop […]

May 1, 2017

Business

Volvo sells Volvo Rents equipment rental business to Platinum Equity

As rumored earlier this year, the Volvo Group has agreed to sell its Volvo Rents construction equipment rental business to Platinum Equity, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for $1.1 billion (SEK 7.5 billion). The sale should be completed during the first quarter of 2014. As a pre-requisite for the sale to go through, Platinum Equity […]

December 10, 2013

Home

eBay’s new Heavy Equipment Center promotes partner equipment sellers, hosts weekly auctions

The online marketplace eBay is ramping up its efforts to sell more used heavy equipment. “There is a step change in how eBay is approaching the business and industrial category, specifically heavy equipment, this year and into 2014,” say Rob Francis, who manages the company’s business and industrial business units. On December 1, eBay launched […]

December 4, 2013

Construction Equipment

74 tips for reducing equipment costs (56-74)

Below are my final tips for squeezing those extra dollars out of your equipment operation. You can check out the previous posts by clicking here. 56: Use Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Inspection helps to detect early signs of changes in condition—a warning of impending failure.  But when to examine and what to examine […]

September 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Minnesota’s Extreme Sandbox gives the public a chance to operate construction equipment

An awesome, young company in Hastings, Minnesota is bringing the thrill of operating heavy machinery to the masses. Anyone who has ever driven a bulldozer, or an excavator, or even a skid-steer knows it’s a singular experience. It combines a feeling of power with one of nostalgia, of playing in the dirt as a kid. […]

August 20, 2013