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Opinion: Bill extensions becoming the norm for this...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Jan 21, 2013

I had to laugh a little, sadly, last week when I read that Congress couldn't get a farm bill passed. ...

$1 trillion spending gap for U.S. infrastructure holds...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 17, 2013

"Infrastructure is the most important thing you never think about," Jim Hoecker, the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory ...

Massachusetts Transportation Secretary reveals 10-year,...

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Jan 15, 2013

Interstate 90 in Boston Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Richard Davey has unveiled a 10-year plan to upkeep and update the state's ...

Video: East span of the Bay Bridge is born

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 09, 2013

Over the past three-and-a-half years, workers have been busy constructing the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. ...

Report: Road construction to see only slight...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jan 03, 2013

Despite the ongoing economic recovery, the U.S. road construction market is tough going and will only slightly improve in the ...

Construction spending hits highest mark in 3 years

Posted by Amanda Bayhi on Dec 03, 2012

Construction spending increased by 9.6 percent in the year between October 2011 and October 2012, to a 37-month high of ...

HHP Summit: The safety of LNG

Posted by Tom Jackson on Sep 26, 2012

When the average person views Liquified Natural Gas as a dangerous, toxic fuel, liable to explode at the slightest spark, ...

AED discusses next steps, positive effects of MAP-21...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Jul 18, 2012

Wednesday afternoon, Associated Equipment Distributors hosted a webinar discussing the new two-year, $105 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill that was ...

The new surface transportation bill gives us a cast...

Posted by Equipment World Staff on Jul 03, 2012

A two-year bill isn't the answer to the need for a long-term transportation bill, but it's better than short-term extension ...

We Are Not Alone

Posted by John Latta on May 21, 2012

I was reading a journalist’s work recently in which he makes the point that infrastructure problems are “impeding economic development.” ...

AED’s Mack: ‘Both houses of Congress are...

Posted by Equipment World Staff on Feb 03, 2012

Associated Equipment Distributors President and CEO Toby Mack issued the following statement after the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee cleared ...