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Contractor of the Year finalist: John Colomba, Colomba Bobcat & Trucking, Windsor, Ontario
John Colomba had one basic problem with his tool-and-mold job, a job where he had advanced to the status of journeyman: he was inside all day. “I had to get back outdoors,” he says. “I needed the freedom.” So in 1995, he followed his father – Peter Colomba, a masonry contractor – and started his […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Contractor of the Year finalist: Mickey Evans, Evans Construction
The landscape around Hickory, North Carolina, is straight out of an Andy Griffith episode: rolling hills and thick forests dotted with small villages and even smaller farms. It was into this rural setting that Contractor of the Year finalist Mickey Evans had the good fortune to be born. His father, Harry, founded Evans Construction in […]
June 12, 2007
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Maintenance/Management: Product and service reps
As a construction contractor you don’t make money fixing equipment, monitoring wear rates and studying up on the latest engine oil specs. All these things are important and necessary to keep your fleets running and in good order, but you have to ask yourself if these activities would be better performed by someone outside your […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Productivity Guide: Skid Steers, 2,201 to <2,701 pounds
There are nine classes of skid-steer loaders available on the market today. Machines in the 2,201- to
June 12, 2007
Business
Final word: What I’ve learned so far
Esquire magazine has a feature I greatly admire. It’s called What I’ve Learned. Every month, the magazine’s editors pick a person and ask them to share their knowledge with readers. The person featured could be young, old, a great leader, a movie star, an unsung hero or even downright ordinary – but they all have […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Making small fleets profitable
Forget everything you know – or think you know – about managing a small truck fleet for your construction business. If you’re wondering how you can make sure those trucks hauling your equipment around or dirt off jobsites are making you money, stop and begin looking at them in terms of productivity. That’s the advice […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Hot Iron
It’s hard to place an exact estimate on the value of construction equipment stolen each year. Everyone just knows it’s big. Based on reports from the Insurance Services Office, other industry statistics and its own databases, the National Equipment Register estimates the annual total value of off-road equipment stolen in the United States is in […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Compact Focus: Wheel loaders 80 to <90 horsepower
Compact wheel loaders are a specialized machine designed for contractors in light construction, landscaping and utility applications where repetitive loading is crucial. Among the specific tasks these machines excel in are general site prep and clean-up work, waste transfer and recycling center applications, feeding small asphalt and concrete batch plants and truck loading. Until the […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Interview: Kenworth general manager Bob Christensen
Kenworth Truck Company, a division of PACCAR, has a long history of service in vocational and construction markets coupled with a reputation for quality recognized today by J.D. Power and Associates Awards for customer satisfaction ratings in 2000, 2003 and 2004. The 2004 award is particularly pertinent for Equipment World readers as the company’s leading […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Innovations
Every year Equipment World’s editors roam the aisles of tradeshows and fly all over the country looking for the most innovative new designs in construction equipment. And while equipment manufacturers crank out hundreds of top-notch new machines every year, only a handful of designs can be said to be truly innovative. These are not upgrades […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Aggressive enforcement of tough new anti-idling laws will affect your business
Last August, a task force from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection made a 20-county sweep through the state. Its purpose? Locate and fine the drivers of Class 6 to 8, diesel-powered trucks idling for longer than three minutes at a time. In all, 101 violators were ticketed in the crackdown. “All 101 drivers […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Top-tier service means laser-like attention to details for this Florida contractor
Donnie Roebuck doesn’t like to say he came into the construction industry by accident. But he’s hard-pressed to describe his entry into the world of yellow iron in any other way. Roebuck has always been fascinated with machinery and automobiles and earned an aviation maintenance degree after graduating high school in Daytona Beach, Florida. But […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Interview with Nick Matich, general manager of International’s severe service applications
Not many years ago, International Truck and Engine was in a long-term struggle simply to survive. As a survivor of once-mighty International Harvester, International’s parent company Navistar Financial was beset with financial and management difficulties throughout the 1980s and into the ’90s. As a result, the company’s trucks – always reliable and durable – fell […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Glenn Huey & Jim Rogers — Nittany Mountain Excavating, Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Jim Rogers and Glenn Huey both grew up on farms near State College, Pennsylvania, working hard and learning how to operate all types of farm and construction equipment. They met working as laborers for a construction company in the late ’70s and became fast friends, even helping one another build family homes after they married […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Compact trenchers under 18 horsepower
Small but powerful, compact trenchers are mainstays on many residential and commercial jobsites. They are most often used for excavating short run trenches for utilities placement and drainage in constricted operating areas. Walk-behind units are the most common in these classes, although walk-beside models are used extensively as well. Beyond operator accommodation, there are hydrostatic […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Hydraulic excavators — >21 to 24 metric tons
Hydraulic excavators in the >21- to 24-metric-ton class are the go-to construction machine for small- and medium-sized contractors. Several OEMs report that machines in this class lead their annual sales volume figures. And that makes sense: these machines are used in a multitude of applications, from light utility work to support equipment in road building […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Compact track loaders — 2,201 to <3,001 pounds
Compact track loaders aren’t new on the compact construction scene. But they are becoming more popular among contractors engaged in site prep, landscaping and general construction. In large part, this popularity has been spurred by the acceptance and indispensability of skid-steer loaders on North American jobsites, which proved once and for all that compact equipment […]
June 12, 2007
Business
Getting into concrete work
Is expanding your business into a specialized field a good idea? It can be for a variety of reasons as three very different contracting firms found out when they turned to concrete as a way to not only increase their profits, but offer a more complete construction package to their clients. Gary Heinrich is senior […]
June 12, 2007
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