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Equipment Resurrection 3 tips to get idle equipment ready to go 1. Fight fuel fungus If your diesel engine has been idle for more than three months, you could be facing fungus. Bacterial and fungal growth can clog filters, pumps and fuel lines, and also produce organic acids that speed corrosion. Use a diesel fuel […]
September 6, 2010
Business
Contractor of the Year Finalist
Darrell Shortes Jr. Breckenridge, Texas This contractor’s formula for success: Hone your people skills and have a passion for making things right By Marcia Gruver Doyle Darrell Shortes Jr. doesn’t mind being blunt: “I don’t care how smart you are, or how good of an equipment operator or business person, if you don’t have people […]
September 2, 2010
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Business
Summit Materials acquires aggregates and asphalt paving/production companies
Building materials company Summit Materials LLC has finalized the acquisitions of Kilgore Paving and Maintenance LLC, an asphalt production and paving company, and the aggregates, ready-mix concrete and construction assets of Harper Companies. Both businesses, which are based in Salt Lake City, Utah, have merged to form Harper-Kilgore LLC, an integrated materials and construction company. (For […]
September 2, 2010
Maintenance
Hydrema awarded $168 million contract for Area Mine Clearing Vehicles
Hydrema has been awarded a contract on Area Mine Clearing Vehicles (AMCS) from U.S. CECOM to the U.S. Army Engineers. The contract is a five-year contract and covers delivery of Mine Clearing Vehicles (MCV), spares, training and maintenance. The size of the contract is indefinite with a ceiling of $168 million. The first deliveries will […]
August 19, 2010
Maintenance
CTS completes new concrete research lab construction
CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp. has finished construction of an Advanced Concrete Research Laboratory, an extension of the Donald G. Fears Structural Engineering Laboratory, and the first test slabs have been cast. Located on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, Okla., the Donald G. Fears Structural Engineering Laboratory, Advanced Concrete Research Laboratory’s purpose is the […]
August 13, 2010
Maintenance
LaHood names projects eligible for ‘Marine Highway’ funding
Just four months after unveiling the America’s Marine Highway Program, a new initiative to move more cargo on the water rather than on crowded highways, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced on Aug. 11 his selection of marine highway corridors and an initial eight projects and six initiatives along the corridors that will be eligible […]
August 11, 2010
Safety
Product Focus
Gen sets and light towers By Amy Materson CLEVER KIT Provide lighting for a range of applications with Baldor’s towable light tower kit, available for the TS35T towable generator. • Kit has 30-foot telescoping light mast • Assembles in about two hours with no drilling • Plugs into 120-volt, 50-amp twistlock outlet on the generator’s […]
August 1, 2010
Safety
Marketplace
By Amy Materson POWER AND PERFORMANCE Kubota has entered the compact track loader market with two models: the 75-horsepower SVL75, which has a 6,204-pound bucket breakout force and 4,881-pound lifting capacity, and the 90-horsepower SVL90, which delivers 7,961 pounds of breakout force and offers a lifting capacity of 5,869 pounds. Powered by a four-cylinder […]
August 1, 2010
Business
Contractor of the Year Finalist
Jason Willard Chattanooga, Tennessee He started out with just a lawn mower. Now he’s up to a D6 thanks to good relationships, investments in his crews and a patient attitude. By Tom Jackson Bluestem Landscape and Design Year started: 1998 Annual volume: $4 to $7 million Markets served: Excavation and clearing; residential/light commercial construction; full […]
August 1, 2010
Business
Machine Matters
Big thing happening with excavators Manufacturers are not only updating 30- to 40-metric-ton crawler excavators, but also introducing new configurations to market. By Mike Anderson As North American earthmoving and underground contractors anticipate kicking the tracks of updated 30- to 40-metric-ton crawler excavator models at CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas come March, some may not have […]
August 1, 2010
Safety
Maintenance
Dirty little secrets Contamination in today’s equipment can cost you big bucks – and the danger is hiding in plain sight. By Tom Jackson Here’s a quiz for all you mechanics, technicians and fleet managers. Say you had two identical pieces of equipment working in two identical applications and environments. Machine A had no air […]
July 31, 2010
Maintenance
Marketplace (Digital)
By Amy Materson DOUBLE PRESSURE Easily change pressure settings on Doosan Portable Power’s P260WYM/HP220WYM dual pressure, dual flow air compressor, which features a simple control panel switch for quick changes. Useful for general construction and pneumatic tool applications, the unit operates at either 260 cfm at 100 psi or 220 cfm at 150 psi. The […]
July 31, 2010
Business
Caltrans veteran joins OCTA
Jim Beil, a 22-year transportation veteran from Caltrans, will join the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) as the new executive director of Capital Programs. Beil, Caltrans deputy district director of Capital Outlay Programs, will begin his new post at OCTA on Aug. 16. Beil will be responsible for directing the delivery of highway, rail and […]
July 23, 2010
Business
AED: Recession is construction equipment industry depression
Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) 2010 National Chairman Dennis Vander Molen, president and general manager of Vermeer MidSouth, testified before two U.S. House of Representatives committees on key parts of the equipment industry recovery agenda. “The economic recession has been a construction equipment industry depression,” Vander Molen said. “We need to keep up the drumbeat and […]
July 21, 2010
Equipment
Navistar tests trucks’ ‘fluid economy’
By eTrucker Staff Navistar said at a July 19 press conference a third-party test it commissioned shows the 2010 International ProStar+ with MaxxForce 13 Advanced EGR engine leads all Class 8 trucks in “fluid economy” – a measurement of diesel fuel plus liquid urea consumed. Navistar’s said its International ProStar+ consistently outperformed competing trucks […]
July 20, 2010
Business
CEMP program helps contractors maximize equipment costs
The four-day Construction Equipment Management Program (CEMP) presented by fleet management experts Mike Vorser and Andy Agoos helps equipment owners maximize owning and operating costs. The program takes place at Georgia Tech in Atlanta from September 20 – 23, 2010. During the program, participants will learn how to: make internal rental rates work and maitnain […]
July 16, 2010
Maintenance
Missouri approves 5-year highway construction program
Missouri’s five-year highway construction program was approved July 1, 2010, by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, but it’s only one-third the size of the 2009 program. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) says the funding is barely enough in funds to take care of the existing system. Missourians will see very few new projects […]
July 13, 2010
Maintenance
Ditch Witch major sponsor of AEM 2011 Construction Challenge
Ditch Witch has signed on as a major sponsor of the 2011 Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment. Ditch Witch will sponsor one of the two “finals” challenges of the student competition taking place at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011, according to AEM. The top 50 student teams chosen from regional rallies […]
July 13, 2010
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