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Final Take
Bomag searching for oldest roller Still using the same roller you had when you started in business? If it’s a Bomag, the company wants to hear about it. To celebrate their 50th anniversary, Bomag is searching for the oldest operating ride-on roller in North America, and will reward the owner with a trip to Germany. […]
August 31, 2008
Business
Contractor of the Year Finalist: Cyndi Wheatley, Tab Construction
Ambition propels success, but Cyndi Wheatley, owner of Tab Construction, Colorado Springs, Colorado, believes it takes more than that. For Cyndi, her construction company didn’t happen by simply setting a goal and hoping to reach it. It developed after she and her family established a strong foundation from which to grow. This meant gradually building […]
August 31, 2008
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Business Management: Covered or naked?
With the housing market sunk to its lowest level in decades, many paving, utility and earthmoving contractors are migrating away from residential jobs to other types of construction. And while you face plenty of challenges when going after a different type of business, perhaps the most important change you have to make when moving into […]
August 31, 2008
Business
Reporter: Cat’s Oberhelman: Navistar deal plays to our strengths
In a conference call with construction editors, Caterpillar’s Doug Oberhelman, group president, detailed the company’s recent memorandum of understanding with Navistar to produce a severe-service truck, and what led to its decision to exit the on-highway engine market: The new severe-service truck: “The Cat truck will be powered by a Cat-branded engine produced by Navistar […]
August 19, 2008
Business
Cover Story/Machine Matters: A construction classic
Like all classics, the basic bones of midsize skid steers remain the same. New features make a good machine great. Steering is easier and more precise with electronic controls that replace the mechanical hand bars on the skid steer’s original design. Caterpillar skid steers were the first to use joystick controls on all of their […]
August 18, 2008
Business
Sponsored Information: How green is demolition?
By Michael R. Taylor, CAE Since recycling is one of the ideals of the green movement, demolition professionals have a lot to talk about – we continually recycle land for re-use, whether for a new school or a public park. In its strategic plan for the next decade, the National Demolition Association has identified environmental […]
August 15, 2008
Business
Trucks: Hybrid heavyweights
Hybrid vehicles offer better fuel efficiency, minimal maintenance, reduced emissions and less idling, but there’s another major benefit you may be unaware of: tax credits from the U.S. government for buyers of qualified heavy hybrid vehicles – up to $12,000 per vehicle – or qualified alternative fuel vehicles – up to $32,000 per vehicle. Working […]
August 14, 2008
Business
Rent Smart: American Rental Association members report realistic growth in 2008
A State of the Industry Update report issued by the American Rental Association says members are more optimistic for construction industry growth this year than previously expected. In cooperation with Global Insite, an economic forecasting and consulting firm, ARA hosted a webinar in June and found that, based on information gathered from ARA members, overall […]
August 10, 2008
Business
Technology: Connected construction
For a time the earthmoving industry was the last holdout of the information age. Whatever your operators did or did not do, whether you made money or not – all the critical measurements of success – couldn’t be verified for weeks until the final survey was done. Experienced supervisors usually had a gut feeling about […]
August 10, 2008
Business
First Word: A new game plan
News last month that a U.S. Senate subcommittee approved a transportation spending bill that would cover next year’s $4 billion shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund was certainly welcome. The measure would transfer $8 billion from the general fund to the highway fund. House lawmakers claim their counterpart bill won’t address the shortfall, but this […]
August 10, 2008
Business
Final Word: A second chance
If the lack of good workers is holding your business back, let me bring to your attention a group that holds great potential and is almost always overlooked – ex-convicts. That might seem like a too-radical proposition for many, but I would ask you this: how many ex-convicts do you know? As it happens, I […]
August 10, 2008
Business
Contractor of the Year Finalist: Jim Williams
Not many construction companies survive to the third generation of family ownership. But for C.E. Williams Sons, its third leader is on a roll and the fourth generation is in training. Now run by Jim Williams, the founder’s grandson, the company has succeeded and grown through a solid work ethic, customer care, loyal employees and […]
August 10, 2008
Business
Business Management: How to price your work
You find a project you want to do, cost it out, send your bid to the owner. But before the ink on the bid dries, your material costs rise again. How do you price your work so your bid stays competitive and still lets you keep the profit you know you’re worth? Where we are […]
August 10, 2008
Business
Collier, Florida – construction equipment
Glenn Allen Stallcup, of Fort Myers, Florida, was convicted and sentenced to a little over a year in prison for the theft of a generator and diesel fuel. Lee County Deputies recovered more than $400,000 in stolen goods by tracking a trailer’s LoJack device that led authorities to a detached garage at 861 Third St. […]
July 8, 2008
Business
Rent Smart: ARA seminars center on California regulations
As California’s In-Use Off-Road Diesel-Fueled Fleet regulations take effect for all equipment owners of off-road diesel construction equipment, the American Rental Association is presenting in-depth training seminars to help rental dealers and others understand and comply with the new state law. Beginning June 15, California rental fleet owners of off-road construction equipment with an engine […]
June 30, 2008
Business
Reporter: Caterpillar, Navistar form truck, engine alliance
Caterpillar will produce with Navistar a Caterpillar-branded severe-service vocational truck, the companies announced June 12. Also, Caterpillar will not produce an engine for North American on-highway truck makers that will meet stricter 2010 emissions standards, says George Taylor, company director for global on-highway products. Those announcements are the first in a strategic partnership between the […]
June 30, 2008
Business
Technology: A marriage of software and GPS
GPS can deliver a multitude of benefits on jobsites, such as tracking equipment and helping guide dozer, grader or excavator earthmoving tasks. But the newest way to improve day-to-day operations out in the field includes mobile resource management software as well. The emergence of customizable mobile resource management systems, or specifically software and GPS combined, […]
June 30, 2008
Business
Technology: Trends in trenchless
If you’re looking around at the construction landscape and wondering where all the business has gone, maybe you need to look down – underground specifically, and trenchless even more so. While there is concern over the impact of the housing and mortgage crisis on residential site development, contractors specializing in trenchless construction methods are finding […]
June 30, 2008
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