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Dealers

Nesco Speciality Rentals acquires N&L Line Equipment

Nesco Specialty Rentals has officially completed its acquisition of N&L Line Equipment. Get more details on the acquisition right here on Equipment World.

July 6, 2018

Roadbuilding

Tempe Police: Autonomous Uber operator was watching “The Voice”, had time to avoid deadly collision

An Uber driver operating in autonomous mode was streaming “The Voice” when her Volvo fatally struck and killed a homeless woman pushing a bicycle across a dimly lit street in Tempe, Arizona, last March. That’s according to a newly released 318-page police report. It details subpoenas used to get information from Hulu, Google and other […]

June 29, 2018

Technology

US Radar’s GP Rover finds and plots utilities fast to create underground maps

US Radar recently introduced its GP Rover, which combines the deep scanning ability of GPR with a GPS component that finds the exact location of the utilities.

June 25, 2018

Roadbuilding

Ohio combines drones, smart highway to test self-driving vehicles

Drones will work in tandem with the state’s fixed-location traffic cameras, and they will interact with roadside traffic sensors and communication equipment.

June 18, 2018

Dealers

AEM honors 29 companies for “superior participation” in market data reporting

Twenty-nine companies who have shown "superior participation" in data-reporting programs are being honored by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).

June 14, 2018

Machine control

Trimble agrees to buy Viewpoint Construction Software for $1.2B

Trimble will acquire Viewpoint Construction Software in a $1.2 billion all-cash deal. Learn all about this on Equipment World.

June 13, 2018

Dealers

United Rentals deploys Triax Spot-r and EquipTags allowing customers to monitor crews and machines

Triax’s plug-and-play Spot-r Clips and EquipTags worn by workers and attached to equipment. Spot-r Clips and EquipTags collects and transmits real-time data.

June 8, 2018

Telematics

Volvo CE says ActiveCare Direct service takes “the noise out of telematics data”

Almost all of the customers who had a year of the service for free have re-enrolled in the company’s ActiveCare Direct fee-based subscription service. More here.

June 1, 2018

Roadbuilding

State DOTs selected for national drone experiment

The 10 participants chosen for the three-year national program will collect data from drones flying at night, over people and out of the pilot’s sight.

May 28, 2018

Telematics

Machine learning, better telematics will spur biggest changes construction has seen in decades

In today's technology-driven world, see how technological advancements can help create safer, more efficient work environments in the construction industry.

May 18, 2018

Technology

New green beam lasers from Spectra Precision make indoor alignment lines easier to see

Trimble's LT52G is a five-beam laser pointer & horizontal & vertical crossline laser while the LT58G gives a horizontal plane intersected by two vertical planes.

May 17, 2018

Technology

For truck fleet managers, new Azuga DashCam transmits a visual snapshot of driving incidents, driver behavior

The new Azuga DashCam shows fleet managers what happened before, during, & after an incident triggered by hard breaking, sudden acceleration, & hard cornering.

May 16, 2018