Kerry Clines (EQW)RoadbuildingAla. community shows appreciation for bridge workers replacing dangerous Double BridgesOn Friday, September 9, the Asbury community in Alabama showed the bridge construction crew working on the Double Bridges project in Marshall County just how much they appreciated what they were doing. WHNT19 reports that the community members provided lunch for the workers. State and local officials showed their appreciation by attending the luncheon, as well. […]September 15, 2016RoadbuildingHauler invents the GTII, a rear truck blade that spreads gravel as it dumpsTim Hudson, a North Dakota farmer and gravel hauler, has developed a new and better way to spread gravel, The Dickinson Press reports. “Started getting into some jobs where we couldn’t dump at high speeds,” Hudson told the news agency. “Needed to be able to spread at low speeds, so that’s where I came up with […]September 14, 2016RoadbuildingCape May County (NJ) Bridge Commission considering E-ZPass for five of its toll bridgesCape May County (New Jersey) Bridge Commission Chairman Patrick Rosenello, who is also Mayor of North Wildwood, is considering the use of E-ZPass on five county toll bridges—Middle Thorofare Bridge, Grassy Sound Bridge, Townsends Inlet Bridge, Corsons Inlet Bridge, and Ocean City Longport Bridge—to make it easier for drivers to pay tolls, The Press of Atlantic City reports. […]September 13, 2016HomeOklahoma DOT inspects 180 bridges following strongest earthquake ever recorded in the stateAfter the magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled much of Oklahoma on September 3, 2016, the state’s Department of Transportation (ODOT) shifted into high gear to inspect 180 state bridges within a 30-mile radius of Pawnee, the epicenter of the earthquake. According to a department release, ODOT completed the inspection in less than six hours, finding only minor cosmetic damage on two bridges […]September 12, 2016RoadbuildingFHWA awards grants to 7 states to test mileage-based user fee collection methodsThe Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded $14.2 million in federal grants to seven states—California, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, and Washington—to figure out how best to charge drivers for miles driven rather than gasoline consumed, Bloomberg BNA reports. The grants were made possible by the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives program, part of the Fixing America’s […]September 9, 2016RoadbuildingMIT research finds road maintenance can lower CO2 emissionsIf Congress and drivers need another reason to invest money in road maintenance, reducing greenhouse gas emissions may be it. According to a report from MIT News, a paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) researchers—Arghavan Louhghalam and Mehdi Akbarian, plus CSHub faculty director Professor Franz-Josef Ulm—offers […]September 9, 2016RoadbuildingNeb. bridge worker survives being trapped by falling bridge planksA county crew was installing a 30-foot-long retaining wall under a closed bridge in Lancaster County, Nebraska, on September 1, when when wooden planks fell on one of the workers. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the worker was trapped under the planks, but members of the crew were able to free him using chainsaws. Lancaster County Sheriff Terry […]September 8, 2016RoadbuildingN. Carolina construction worker falls into lake and drownsFiligonio Bravo Perez, a 29-year-old construction worker, fell from a bridge he was painting into Lake Hickory in Catawba County, North Carolina, and drowned, JDNews.com reports. Perez, who worked for Astron General Contracting Co., was painting a bridge on N.C. 127 over Lake Hickory, when he fell into the lake. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid told the news agency […]September 7, 2016RoadbuildingLast piece of East End Bridge spanning Ohio River set in placeThe video below, released by the Ohio River Bridges Project, shows time-lapse footage of the last three months of construction on the East End Bridge that began in the summer of 2013. The final bridge piece was lifted into place by a crane on Monday, August 29. The 2,500-foot, cable-stayed bridge, which stretches across the Ohio River between Kentucky […]September 6, 2016RoadbuildingBelmont County (Ohio) bridge engineer receives historic bridge preservation awardDuring the Ohio Bridge Conference August 17-18 in Columbus, Belmont County Engineer Fred Bennett received a statewide historic bridge preservation award for his work preserving historic landmarks in the area, The Times Leader reports. The award was sponsored by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), the Ohio Historical Society, the County Engineer’s Association, and the National Road […]September 5, 2016Previous PagePage 78 of 91Next PageTop StoriesOff-Road TrucksDeere Previews Autonomous Haul Truck: One Truck, Two Operation ModesThe bolt-on autonomy system would let contractors switch their articulated dump trucks between manual and autonomous operation. 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