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Business

Before the snow flies, here’s how to properly winterize your heavy equipment fleet

Nothing is more annoying than a maintenance oversight causing a machine to go down –unless it’s a maintenance failure that causes a machine to go down in a howling artic wind.  As the days get shorter and the weather turns colder, contractors are scrambling to finish projects. And while the work has to get done, […]

October 26, 2016

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar “more aggressive” on cost reduction cuts than anticipated due to market weakness

Caterpillar says weakness in key end markets has caused the company to be “more aggressive” than anticipated in the cuts it has made and the restructuring actions it has taken in the last 13 months as part of a sweeping cost reduction plan. With sales and revenues expected to be down 17 percent to $39 billion, fiscal 2016 will cap the first series […]

October 26, 2016

Pickups

Ram unveils 1500 Lone Star Silver Edition, adds new features to Limited and Longhorn trucks

Ram Truck’s love letter to Texas is getting a bit of a rewrite with the unveiling of a new special edition option. The new 2017 Lone Star Silver Edition will be available on Ram 1500 4×2 and 4×4 Crew Cab pickups with short and long box-length configurations. You’ll also be able to outfit it with […]

October 25, 2016

Business

Caterpillar sales down again in 3Q as profit plummets 48%

Citing economic weakness and idle mining trucks around the globe coupled with an “abundance” of used construction equipment and idle locomotives in North America, Caterpillar reported another down period for earnings today. With total sales falling 16 percent to $9.16 billion in the third quarter and profit plummeting 48 percent to $481 million, the world’s no. 1 […]

October 25, 2016

Dealers

Language barrier driving Hispanic landscapers to Big Box stores over equipment dealers

When it comes to “owning the Hispanic business in your market”—the topic of a meeting with landscape equipment dealers this week at GIE+EXPO—overcoming the language barrier is the first and foremost challenge. Employing at least one bilingual person in a customer-facing role won’t guarantee success, but, as a practical matter, not doing so is likely […]

October 25, 2016

Equipment Experts

John Deere intros 524, 544 and 624K-II wheel loaders with new 5-speed gearboxes, load-sensing hydraulics

Saying development of the new machines was focused around providing enhanced agility on the jobsite, John Deere has introduced three new utility-class wheel loaders. The new 524K-II, 544K-II and 624K-II are powered by Tier 4 Final Deere PowerTech engines paired with new five-speed transmissions. Deere says these new gearboxes feature optimized gear ratio changes. The […]

October 24, 2016

Construction Equipment

John Deere intros 524, 544 and 624K-II wheel loaders with new 5-speed gearboxes, load-sensing hydraulics

Saying development of the new machines was focused around providing enhanced agility on the jobsite, John Deere has introduced three new utility-class wheel loaders. The new 524K-II, 544K-II and 624K-II are powered by Tier 4 Final Deere PowerTech engines paired with new five-speed transmissions. Deere says these new gearboxes feature optimized gear ratio changes. The […]

October 24, 2016

Construction Equipment

Inside development of the Volvo CE LX1 as the hybrid-electric loader goes into field testing

Volvo Construction Equipment introduced its first concept of a hybrid wheel loader at the 2008 ConExpo-Con/Agg … and then went silent. The long wait between then and now was acknowledged by Scott Young, Volvo CE’s program manager for electromobility during the company’s recent Xploration Forum. But the wait has had its upsides, Young says: electrification […]

October 21, 2016

Construction Equipment

Metrodome falls, crews construct new Minnesota Vikings stadium in awesome time-lapse

With an undefeated 5-0 record and a strong claim to the best team in the NFC, the way the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings are playing football right now is making a few more headlines than the team’s new stadium has. That being said, Vikings fans are enjoying winning football inside a home stadium that is a huge […]

October 21, 2016

Construction Equipment

Subsite intros the Commander 7, an upgradable HDD guidance display with smartphone connectivity

Calling it the company’s “most advanced display ever,” Subsite Electronics has introduced a new 7-inch, high-resolution monitor for horizontal directional drilling guidance. Dubbed the Commander 7, this display brings new capabilities to Subsite’s TK RECON Series guidance system which the company introduced earlier this year. Because its built on the TK RECON platform, the Commander […]

October 21, 2016

Trucks

Cat Truck Spotting unbundles autonomous features to give shovel, truck operators more control

First there was the fully autonomous Cat 793F hauling truck, which has been working in Australian mine since 2012. Now there’s what Cat calls “an unbundling” of autonomous features to put slices of autonomy in other machines. One of the first of these features will be truck spotting, expected to be in production next year […]

October 20, 2016

Construction Equipment

Hoping to impress ‘low-spec’ skeptics, LiuGong steps up its game with new H-Series wheel loaders

If “low spec” is the first thing that pops into your mind when you hear about a Chinese machine, LiuGong would like you to take a second look. With the introduction of its new Tier 4 Final wheel loaders, the Chinese equipment manufacturer is bringing North American and European customers six of its most technologically […]

October 19, 2016