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Western Snow & Ice Conference
Conference fees include: reference and materials packet, prizes, educational sessions, participation in one(1) Roadeo event (additional Roadeo events cost $75/person/event), entrance to exhibitor areas, break refreshments, and the following optional events: Wednesday Lunch Session, Wednesday 4Rivers Equipment Welcome Reception, Thursday “Blades Up” Social and Friday Awards Banquet Luncheon. VISIT WWW.WESTERNSNOWANDICE.COM TO REGISTER TODAY!
August 28, 2013
Roadbuilding
APWA International Public Works Congress & Exposition — Chicago, IL
Join thousands of public works professionals in Chicago for the 2013 Congress! Come experience the ingenuity, progress, and imagination Chicago offers! Discover new, fascinating trends in public works, and indulge in the wealth of knowledge thousands of colleagues bring with them to The Best Show in Public Works. Click Here for more information.
August 28, 2013
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Roadbuilding
GHSA Annual Meeting — San Diego, CA
2013 GHSA Annual Meeting Highway Safety & Technology: Safely Navigating the Road Ahead San Diego, California | August 25 – 28 GHSA’s 2013 Annual Meeting will tackle the issue of technology, looking at how technology presents both challenges and opportunities for the highway safety community. Click Here for more information
August 28, 2013
Roadbuilding
Henderson features BlackBelt Maxx truck body at APWA Expo
Henderson Products featured its BlackBelt Maxx truck body, capable of tackling an array of applications, at the American Public Works (APWA) Congress and Exposition this week. The truck body, introduced earlier this year, can perform jobs such anti-ice applications, deicing applications, pre-wet applications, salt slurry generation, material hauling and high-volume material conveying. Features include Load […]
August 27, 2013
Roadbuilding
Case unveils CX75C SR mid-sized excavator at APWA Expo
Case Construction on Monday introduced its new CX75C SR mid-sized excavator, which features a first-in-class Tier 4 Final engine with a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC)-only cooled exhaust gas recirculation (CEGR) system. Launched at the American Public Works Association (APWA) Congress and Exposition, the CX75C SR offers a 5-percent improvement in fuel efficiency, a 7-percent faster […]
August 27, 2013
Roadbuilding
Diesel fuel prices climb $0.013 per gallon
On-highway diesel fuel prices rose across the U.S. this week, according to our sister site, Aggregates Manager. The greatest increase this week occurred in the Midwest region, which experienced a $0.016-per-gallon jump from last week’s prices but a $0.166-per-gallon year-over-year decline. Overall, national prices also rose this week. Diesel fuel costs are $0.013 per gallon […]
August 27, 2013
Roadbuilding
What Buicks & White Tubs Have in Common
I learned how to drive in my mother’s blue Buick Century. It wasn’t my idea of a cool car at the time, but it was reliable and roomy – and surprisingly hid dents and scratches fairly well. But who knew the man behind the Buick also invented white bathtubs? David Dunbar Buick, a Scottish immigrant, […]
August 27, 2013
Roadbuilding
Industry professionals need to advocate infrastructure improvements, says APWA Congress speaker Larry Frevert
Earlier this year, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave America a D+ on its Report Card on American Infrastructure. The report outlined that funding is currently $1.6 trillion below what is needed to repair and maintain the nation’s failing infrastructure system by 2020, and it is $201 million short annually to make those […]
August 26, 2013
Roadbuilding
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman: ‘Average is over’
Best-selling author and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman spoke Sunday in front of a group of public works professionals about the challenges posed by globalization, changing technology, deficits and energy consumption. During his session at the American Public Works Association (APWA) Congress and Exposition, Friedman noted that within a seven-year span at the […]
August 26, 2013
Roadbuilding
Crews construct world’s largest self-anchored suspension bridge
In California, crews have been working for more than 10 years to construct the largest self-anchored suspension (SAS) bridge in the world, and Wired has shared some close-up photos of the project, thanks to photographer Joseph Blum, who has seen the entire construction project so far. [youtube wJeyD_67YMo nolink] The 2,047-foot eastern span of San […]
August 26, 2013
Roadbuilding
Top 5 Cities for Electric Cars
Some of the cities on this list are probably obvious, but I was surprised about a few of the cities on this “Top 5” list from Clean Technica. Here are the five cities where you’re most likely to see someone charging up their car: Los Angeles, California San Francisco, California New York City Seattle, Washington […]
August 26, 2013
Roadbuilding
Altralight trailer from Kalyn Siebert focuses on stability, strength, safety
Heil Trailer International subsidiary Kalyn Siebert has launched its Altralite lightweight steel end-dump trailer. Designed to be stable, strong and safe, the trailer features a dumping angle that keeps all axles on the ground during the fifth stage of dumping, a bathtub design that keeps the center of gravity close to the trailer’s centerline, longitudinal […]
August 23, 2013
Roadbuilding
South Korea’s new Armadillo-T electric car folds for compact parking
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed an electric car that can fold to fit into tight parking spaces. The vehicle was designed for personal and public transit use. In-Soo Suh, associate professor of the Graduate School for Green Transportation at KAIST, and his research team got their inspiration for the […]
August 23, 2013
Roadbuilding
Outfitted with Cummins 5.0L V-8, Nissan Titan to be first light-duty diesel with V-8
Nissan and Cummins announced Tuesday that the two have formed a partnership that will soon result in a turbocharged diesel option for the next-generation Titan, making the pickup the first light-duty diesel with a V-8 engine, according to our sister site, Equipment World. “Truck owners told us there’s a demand for the performance and torque […]
August 23, 2013
Roadbuilding
Texas, You’re Going the Wrong Way!
Normally, when a gravel road starts seeing a lot of traffic, it earns enough street cred to be upgraded to asphalt. But Texas has this process a little backward. Instead of repairing an asphalt road in parts of South and West Texas, the state decided to revert it into a gravel road. The 80 miles […]
August 23, 2013
Roadbuilding
Amtrak offers electric locomotive facility preview, discusses new train’s power
Amtrak on Wednesday offered Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) a preview of its Wilmington Maintenance Facility, where the company is testing its new electric locomotives, according to Delaware’s WDDE. The facility is in the final stages of testing the Siemens-manufactured Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS-64), which debuted in Sacramento, California, in May. Amtrak ordered 70 of the locomotives […]
August 22, 2013
Roadbuilding
TRB to host slope stabilization, erosion control webinar on August 27
Transportation Research Board (TRB) will host a webinar about slope stabilization and erosion control on August 27 from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. The webinar, “Cost-Effective and Sustainable Road Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control,” will feature discussions about implementing various slope stabilization and erosion control techniques around the world and insight on how the terms […]
August 22, 2013
Roadbuilding
TxDOT delays gravel road plan
The Texas Department of Transportation has put on hold a plan to convert some rural asphalt roads to gravel, according to a report from The San Antonio Express-News. Senator Carlos Uresti (D-Texas) said Tuesday that TxDOT officials decided on a 60-day delay in some of the planned conversions after state lawmakers raised concerns about the […]
August 22, 2013
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