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Godwin Pumps opens new branch in California

Godwin Pumps, manufacturer of the Dri-Prime automatic self-priming, dry-running pump, opened of its newest branch in Poway, Ca., serving the San Diego area. Godwin will service the area through a 5,000 sq. ft. shop equipped with two overhead cranes to 10 tons, six truck docks, and four workstations. Godwin’s Poway branch manager, Nate Warren says, […]

May 19, 2011

Machine control

Sitech Technology creates dealer in Hawaii, California

A Sitech Technology dealer was established in Hawaii and southern California. The Sitech dealership network offers a comprehensive portfolio of construction technology systems to heavy and highway contractors. Sitech Technology dealers represent Trimble and Caterpillar machine control systems for the contractor’s entire fleet of heavy equipment, regardless of machine brand, along with Trimble’s portfolio of […]

April 5, 2011

Construction Equipment

Cat Auction facilitates Erreca’s dispersal

Cat Auction Services will hold an unreserved public auction featuring the complete dispersal of Erreca’s on Feb. 23. The auction, beginning at 9 a.m. at Erreca’s facility in Lakeside, California, marks the company’s first California-based auction since adding new California-based Cat Dealers partners Hawthorne Machinery, Quinn Company, Peterson Tractor and Holt of California in the […]

January 19, 2011

Sunbelt Rentals opens new specialty branches

Sunbelt Rentals opened two new Pump & Power locations in Oregon and California. Located in Portland, Oregon, and Richmond, California, the new specialty branches join West Coast markets in which the company has established a strong presence with its core general tool and equipment offering. Sunbelt Rentals’ Pump & Power Specialty Division offers customers capabilities and […]

November 22, 2010

Granite Construction’s Liberty Quarry could mean millions for California

Granite Construction’s proposed Liberty Quarry would help refill California’s depleted coffers, pouring millions of dollars into state and local governments and helping to fund the struggling California State Teachers Retirement System. The nearly bankrupt Golden State is facing a $20 billion budget shortfall in the next fiscal year, and state leaders are scrambling to bolster […]

July 6, 2010

Polaris Minerals completes lease of Long Beach marine aggregates terminal

Polaris Minerals Corporation has entered into a lease, with L.G. Everist, Inc. for Berth D-44 in the Port of Long Beach, California, with an initial term of five years and three additional five-year extension options, exercisable by Polaris, which would extend the tenure to June 30, 2030. The 8.3 acre Berth D-44 terminal has an […]

July 6, 2010

Construction Equipment

King Crane expands to new Silicon Valley location

King Crane Service is moving from its current location to a larger location to make room for its growing fleet of rough terrain cranes, boom trucks and crawler cranes. The San Jose, California-based company will leave its Old Bayshore Road location and open its location at 1045 Commercial Court on August 1. The larger and more modern […]

June 16, 2010

BANKS DIESEL TUNER GETS C.A.R.B. APPROVAL

Banks Reaches Milestone Decision With C.A.R.B. Banks Six-Gun diesel tuner for the new 6.7L Dodge Cummins has passed California’s stringent new testing format On April 7, 2010, the California Air Resources Board notified Gale Banks Engineering “with no alternative test procedure available, ARB staff suggested that it would be in the best interest of Gale […]

June 4, 2010

U.S. construction industry adds 14,000 jobs

The nation’s construction industry added 14,000 jobs nationwide in April, according to the Labor Department, marking the first back-to-back monthly gains in that sector since 2006, the Los Angeles Times reports. In all, 29 states gained construction jobs that month, according to data released Friday by the Associated General Contractors of America, according to the […]

June 2, 2010

Caltrans: 111 public transit, air quality projects get $63.3 million in funding

Caltrans today announced it has awarded $63.3 million to fund 111 public transit and air quality projects across California to upgrade transit service and purchase eco-friendly buses. All of the funding comes from Proposition 1B, the 2006 transportation bond, which includes $3.6 billion to improve public transit in California. “When the voters passed Proposition 1B, […]

May 13, 2010

Orange County Transportation Authority names new deputy CEO

The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) has named Darrell Johnson, a transportation industry veteran and longtime supporter of public transit, as the agency’s new deputy CEO. Darrell Johnson, new Orange Country Transportation Authority, deputy CEO Johnson, who most recently held the position of executive director of rail programs, took his post as deputy CEO March […]

April 12, 2010

Have you driven America’s scariest roads?

California, Hawaii, Colorado, Alaska, Utah, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas have some of the country’s scariest roads — narrow, desolate, between volcanoes and hugging cliffs above the ocean. Click here to find out which roads are considered the most daunting in America and see some pictures of them, too.

January 15, 2010

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