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Survey: 87% of automotive technicians actively use a cell phone for work in the bay
An automotive market research firm has released a survey on technician cell phone use that should also interest the employers of construction equipment technicians. IMR says its latest survey on cell phone use in bays at independent repair shops shows that 99.6 percent of automotive repair technicians own a cell phone, with 46.4 percent also own […]
January 23, 2020
Construction Equipment
As North American demand for tiltrotators grows, early adopters tout their versatility
Tiltrotators are well-known in Europe and are making headway in North American. See what contractors are saying about tiltrotators on Equipment World.
January 24, 2019
Workforce
Discovered on Instagram, construction worker leaps from jobsite to runway in new career as a model
It’s not very often we realize just how far-reaching the Internet is. Matthew Noszka certainly wasn’t thinking about it when he posted a picture of himself to his Instagram taken while working on building a deck. But thanks to that picture, he’s now a highly-sought-after fashion model. According to ABC News, Noszka, 22, posted the […]
April 23, 2015
Roadbuilding
Amtrak riders to tweet, blog their 2-day #AmtrakLive trip
Amtrak is taking its Texas Eagle train to Twitter and Instagram. Next month, the company will host #AmtrakLive, a two-day trip from Los Angeles, California to Austin, Texas for 30 riders who will tweet and blog about the experience. [youtube bSTSUt1-DpM nolink] The journey takes travelers to SXSW, a series of film, interactive and music […]
February 25, 2014
Roadbuilding
Follow us for World of Concrete news
Will you be attending World of Concrete next week? Whether you are or aren’t there, be sure to follow us for daily updates from the show. You can catch show news from the official Better Roads twitter (@BetterRoads), and Editor-at-Large Tina Grady Barbaccia (@tgbarbaccia) will be tweeting live from the show floor. Be sure to […]
January 16, 2014
Roadbuilding
Who Needs Journalists, Anyway?
Disclaimer: This is me getting on my journalism soapbox. It has nothing to do with roads—at least directly—unless you consider that anyone could just “report” on highway and transportation construction industry without credibility mattering. With Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Instagram, FourSquare and a bevy of other social mediums and the web, where bloggers and […]
September 11, 2013
Roadbuilding
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
But if you try sometimes, you might just get Amtrak what it needs. And a little street cred is what it needs. I wrote a column for the print issue of Better Roads not too many months ago with the headline “Angelina Jolie.” Within that column I suggested, not entirely facetiously, that the transportation infrastructure […]
June 27, 2013
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