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Safety
Checkpoint: How to buy a used rigid-frame truck
Despite their immense size, rigid frame trucks are fairly simple machines to assess, according to Larry Bias, product support specialist for Power Equipment, Memphis, Tennessee. “Take extra time and carefully inspect the main frame,” he suggests. “If it’s free of cracks and twisted sections, you’re probably going to be all right.” Steve Wilson, equipment manager […]
June 12, 2007
Maintenance
Maintenance management: 10 questions to ask about service trucks
At some point in the life of almost every growing construction company – and usually quite early – a mechanic’s service truck becomes a necessity. When and for what reasons contractors decide to buy a service truck will vary widely. Prices on a truck with a crane may range from $40,000 to $120,000, and contractors […]
June 12, 2007
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Maintenance
Trucks: Maximizing fuel economy
Fuel prices are up. And it doesn’t look like they’ll go back down any time soon. Here’s a refresher course in maximizing fuel economy in heavy-duty diesel trucks. Before you leave the yard Chuck Blake, manager of special projects, Detroit Diesel, says to successfully counter high fuel prices, your drivers should spend a few minutes […]
June 12, 2007
Maintenance
Productivity Guide: Backhoes 10 to <14 foot digging depth
Backhoes in the 10- to
June 12, 2007
Equipment
Trucks: Volvo’s VT 880
Volvo has a new truck, and has built a high-horsepower, large-displacement diesel engine to power it. The company is known for advanced aerodynamics and technically advanced truck designs. The new VT 880 gives the company something it hasn’t had until now: a long-nosed conventional tractor that allows owners and drivers to project a strong, decidedly […]
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
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
Maintenance
Trucks: Five rules for controlling fleet costs
Controlling costs and managing vehicle expenses is tough for fleet managers – whether you’re in charge of a large fleet of dump or mixer trucks, or simply trying to decide how to replace your company’s lone Class-8 equipment hauler. The National Truck Equipment Association recently released its Five Rules For Controlling Fleet Costs. The study […]
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
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
Safety
Class 7-8 trucks: What’s best for your job?
Because there are so many powertrain, body and chassis configurations, writing a generic article about spec’ing Class 8 construction trucks can be difficult. So we’re taking a slightly different tack: We dreamed up four fictional construction trucking applications, assigned some specific, real-world needs and problems to each and then asked North American Class 8 truck […]
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
Roadbuilding
Milling machines: 80- to 87-inch cutting widths
They’re called many names: Milling machines, pavement profilers and asphalt cutters, among them. But regardless of the moniker, these highly specialized road-building machines with their faintly prehistoric looks fascinate both the general public and contractors alike. In fact, the History Channel will be dedicating an entire episode of its “Guts and Bolts” series to them […]
June 12, 2007
Maintenance
Compact loaders — 50 to <60 horsepower
Like many large machine designs that have been “shrunk” down into smaller versions, compact wheel loaders have proven to be successful machines for contractors engaged in general construction applications such as moving gravel, dirt and other loose material, loading and unloading trucks and grading. They also excel at attachment use. Specialized buckets are available for […]
June 12, 2007
Safety
Backhoe loaders: 4 to <15 foot dig depth
In many ways, you could say the whole versatility revolution in construction equipment started with the backhoe loader. Before the backhoe first appeared in the late 1950s, construction equipment was, for the most part, designed, built and used for single-purpose applications. The backhoe loader, however, was different: One half dedicated loader, and one half digging […]
June 12, 2007
Safety
Articulated dump trucks — 20 to <26 tons
Designed for medium to large earthmoving jobs, articulated dump trucks in the 20- to
June 12, 2007
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