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Wisconsin DOT launches 511 website, Twitter accounts to keep drivers informed on construction projects

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is taking a pro-active stance in keeping construction workers safe by doing what it can to ensure as many drivers as possible know about the various active construction sites around the state. Wisconsin 511 is a new website that WisDOT hopes will be a “one-stop-shop” for travelers and commuters to […]

June 3, 2013

Wisconsin texting champ urges drivers to put down phones

Wisconsin teenager and two-time LG U.S. National Texting Champion Austin Wierschke is advocating for drivers to put their mobile phones away while behind the wheel, the Appleton Post-Crescent reported. The 18-year-old has won titles for his texting abilities like speed, accuracy and even texting his name blindfolded, but he said he wouldn’t send any texts […]

April 12, 2013

Austin Wierschke poses with a new Wisconsin advertisement. (Photo: Gannett Wisconsin Media)

“No highway expansion,” says Wisconsin lobby

Here’s a plea to stop building new highway lane miles in Wisconsin. Hmm. The new communications era (NCE) allows all sorts of people and groups to take their case directly to the public, sometimes in a clumsy, amateurish way, but often, as in this case, with some pretty convincing work. But the NCE (I just […]

April 10, 2013

Wisconsin high school welding contest looks to spark workforce

Bruce Trimble, the employer services director for North Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board, recently told the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune that about 40 percent of the welders in Marathon County are between the ages of 45 and 64 and 14 percent are between 55 and 64. That means Wisconsin companies like Schuette Metals, a metal fabrication company […]

March 6, 2013

Terex adds Tractor Services and Titan machinery as distributors

Terex has added two distributors to its North American network, Tractor Service and Titan Machinery. Terex appointed Tractor Service as a full line compact equipment distributor in New Mexico. As a distributor, Tractor Service will offer parts, service, warranty support and financing options for Terex products. To see the Terex products Tractor Service has to […]

November 5, 2012

Compact Group On Ridge

Construction Equipment

Volvo Rents expands in Wisconsin

Volvo Rents has acquired FRED Rents, a two-location construction equipment rental company with stores in Madison and Neenah, Wisconsin. In addition to Volvo Rents’ line of Volvo compact equipment, the rental center carries a comprehensive line of essential equipment and tools for the construction, commercial, industrial and homeowner markets. The focus is on daily, weekly […]

October 26, 2012

PacLease adds seven North American franchise locations

PacLease is expanding in North America with the addition of seven locations in the Great Lakes and Nebraska regions of the United States. The seven franchises will be located in Escanaba, Gaylord, and Grand Rapids, Michigan; in Columbus, Kearney and York, Nebraska; and in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. For more information, visit paclease.com.

October 2, 2012

Astec discusses market position in India

Four United States-based companies of Astec Industries have hosted two senior executives of Tractors India (TIL) to work toward strengthening Astec’s market position in India. Visitors included Sumit Mazumder, vice chairman and managing director, and Somnath Bhattacharjee, president of material handling solutions equipment and project solutions business at TIL. The guests visited the Telsmith factory […]

July 31, 2012

Kaeser opens two new facilities

Kaeser Compressors opened two new factory-direct facilities on July 2. The new branch offices are responsible for supporting Kaeser’s industrial and commercial customers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the services the new facilities will offer are scheduled preventive maintenance, air system and equipment design and installation, equipment repair services and parts, air system audits […]

July 25, 2012

Matt McCorkle is the manager for the Wisconsin and Minnesota Kaeser facilities.

Kaeser opens two new facilities

Kaeser Compressors opened two new factory-direct facilities on July 2. The new branch offices are responsible for supporting Kaeser’s industrial and commercial customers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the services the new facilities will offer are scheduled preventive maintenance, air system and equipment design and installation, equipment repair services and parts, air system audits for […]

July 20, 2012

Kaeser opens two new facilities

Kaeser Compressors opened two new factory-direct facilities on July 2. The new branch offices are responsible for supporting Kaeser’s industrial and commercial customers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the services the new facilities will offer are scheduled preventive maintenance, air system and equipment design and installation, equipment repair services and parts, air system audits for […]

July 20, 2012

Matt McCorkle is the manager at Kaeser’s new Wisconsin and Minnesota facilities.

Construction Equipment

Doosan appoints new distributors

Doosan has appointed six dealerships as new carriers of Doosan heavy equipment. These dealerships are Nova International Limited in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Aylesford in Nova Scotia, Canada; and Swiderski Equipment, with four locations in Wisconsin (Mosinee, Wausau, Thorp, and Waupaca, Wisconsin). All new distributors carry a variety of Doosan equipment, which may include wheel excavators, […]

May 22, 2012

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