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Texas high school teaches students about construction with access to its own jobsite
Highlands High School in San Antonio, Texas is turning progress into a teaching moment. The school is currently undergoing a $65.7 million renovation which involved several of its buildings to be torn down to their foundations and rebuilt, according to a report from the San Antonio Express-News. Seeing the construction as an opportunity, Al Gamillo, the […]
April 8, 2014
Construction Equipment
PHOTOS: Amazing images of subway construction in the man-made caverns below New York City
[imagebrowser id=58] Back in June we showed you a handful of pictures from deep below New York City. And while they depicted ongoing construction on the city’s Second Avenue Subway, they looked like more something out of a sci-fi movie. The Second Avenue Subway is the first line to be built in NYC since 1932. […]
April 7, 2014
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Construction Equipment
Man disguises himself as a construction worker, robs elderly woman
In the Queens borough of New York City, police are looking for a purse snatcher who disguised himself as a construction worker. According to a report from NBC New York, the man disguised himself wearing a hard hat and tool bag and covered his face with a surgical mask. Surveillance video in the victim’s apartment […]
April 7, 2014
Construction Equipment
Ram brings black-on-black package to HD 2500 and 3500 pickups
Due to what Chrysler says was an “overwhelming response” to the Black Express package offered on the Ram 1500, Ram is extending the black-on-black exterior package to its HD 2500 and 3500 SRW models. Everything but the glass and Cummins side badges on this pickup is black: 20-inch aluminum wheels, fog lamps,  grille, front and rear bumpers […]
April 4, 2014
Construction Equipment
How to wash a car with a 385-ton excavator (and destroy it in the process)
NO. 9 » No. 10 Video in 2014 This one’s pretty simple. Bunch of guys with some time and what looks to be a Liebherr R9400 mining excavator on their hands decide to have a little fun with a useless car. (At least we hope it was useless.) The results are pretty impressive. Then again, […]
April 4, 2014
Dealers
Bobcat, Sany add locations, ICP recruits for Lonking in this week’s Dealer News Roundup
Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. We post a new edition just about every week with news on hires, promotions, new locations and expansions. Check back for a new edition every week! Bobcat adds new authorized dealer in Iowa, Wyoming […]
April 4, 2014
Construction Equipment
Watch the 1,000-person process of building a Ford F-150
Considering the fact that a Ford F-Series pickup is sold every 38 seconds in the U.S., Ford has to churn them out pretty quickly. Recently, Bloomberg TV visited Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Michigan to see how the automaker is able to meet that demand. Each week about 7,000 F-Series trucks roll off the […]
April 3, 2014
Construction Equipment
Ram outsells Chevrolet Silverado in shakeup that should make GM and Ford take diesel half-tons more seriously
We typically don’t waste of lot space on pickup truck sales. That’s mainly because they’re numbers that don’t change a whole lot: Ford always wins, Chevrolet is the runner-up and Ram places third just about every month. It’s been that way for the better part of the last 15 years. Until last month. For the […]
April 2, 2014
Construction Equipment
Burglars drive away with excavator, truck and trailer in quick construction equipment heist
It’s not quite a scene out of Ocean’s Eleven, but the burglars who recently drove away with an excavator, truck and trailer worth $250,000 were pretty bold to do it all during the evening—and in one moment, in sight of the police. According to a report from WABC TV in New York City, the thieves arrived […]
April 2, 2014
Business
“Netflix model” for online construction safety training makes implementing programs a no-brainer
Efforts to reduce construction accidents and injuries are slowly but surely having an effect, as each year OSHA’s tally of construction-related fatalities drops in number. Perhaps it’s a matter of more construction company owners taking a proactive approach to safety—a simple attitude adjustment considering today’s easier access to a wide variety of safety training materials. […]
April 2, 2014
Business
Republican Senators turn tables on investigation in vocal defense of Caterpillar during tax hearing
Though a U.S. Senate report written by Michigan Democrat Sen. Carl Levin concluded that Caterpillar had done nothing illegal in offshore tax strategy, most expected a Tuesday hearing before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to amount to a prolonged scolding for Cat and its financial adviser PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. In the end, it was more of a fair […]
April 1, 2014
Safety
Three-alarm fire destroys historic building in Des Moines undergoing renovation
For the third time in less than a month, a large fire has destroyed a building where construction was in progress. Following five-alarm fires in San Francisco and Houston that completely destroyed unfinished apartment complexes, a three-alarm fire engulfed the historic Younkers Building in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, causing the structure to partially collapse. According to […]
April 1, 2014
Business
CNH Industrial taps Leica Geosystems to provide machine control solutions for Case, New Holland equipment
CNH Industrial announced this morning that it has chosen Leica Geosystems to provide its construction equipment brands with machine control. Leica will provide both factory-installed and aftermarket machine control solutions for Case and New Holland Construction excavators, dozers and graders. Eventually, Leica will provide machine control to the entire CNH Industrial lineup. According to the […]
April 1, 2014
Business
How to save money and protect equipment by creating an anti-idling policy at your construction company
In construction bids, nobody likes to leave money on the table. Yet the biggest controllable expense—fuel cost—is rarely scrutinized for savings. That’s unfortunate, given that the average idle time for heavy equipment is 40 percent, says Komatsu’s Ken Calvert. Komatsu started putting telematics on its machines in 2006. When they looked at the aggregate data […]
April 1, 2014
Construction Equipment
Understanding your pickup’s max payload capacity and how helper springs make a smooth ride of a heavy load
Hauling 55-gallon drums of diesel, a bed full of pit run gravel or pallets of undercarriage parts are an every day occurrence for many pickup drivers who multitask around heavy construction, aggregates, landscaping and other businesses involved in moving dirt, sand and rock. We use pickups as a tool to haul loads and tow trailers […]
April 1, 2014
Construction Equipment
How to get the most work out of your compact track loader
Compared to skid steer loaders, compact track loaders cost more, have slower travel speeds, are better in soft underfoot conditions, and handle slopes better. Common knowledge. But if your assessment of the performance of CTLs and their potential for your business stops with the commonplace, you can’t make the right decisions regarding their use. Cost […]
April 1, 2014
Success Stories
South Dakota contractor’s work in his small town’s moment of crisis provides framework for growth
Each February, Gale Nitteberg, his wife Sandy and their grandchildren pack up and head south for about a month to escape the harsh South Dakota winter for the warm beaches of Florida. He says years ago he and his wife talked about leaving South Dakota and maybe moving somewhere warmer, but it was never something […]
April 1, 2014
Construction Equipment
Caterpillar to defend tax strategy before U.S. Senate today, will likely receive support from John McCain
Caterpillar has confirmed an earlier report by saying it is scheduled to testify in a U.S. Senate hearing on whether the company illegally shifted profits overseas to avoid paying federal taxes. According to a report from Reuters, the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations headed by Michigan Democrat Sen. Carl Levin, prepared a report that focuses on Caterpillar corporate […]
March 31, 2014
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