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Cat Crowns Worldās Best Equipment Operator: Meet Canadaās Jaus Neigum
During ConExpo 2020, Caterpillar held the finals of its 2019-2020 Global Operator Challenge. When the dirt settled, Canadaās Jaus Neigum took home the trophy and the title of Worldās Best Equipment Operator. Check out the action from the competition and our chat with Jaus in this video.
March 18, 2020
Business
Update: JCB halts UK production through the end of April as coronavirus continues to take its toll
JCB says it has extended its production stoppage until the end of April at all of its United Kingdom manufacturing plants as COVID-19 coronavirus disruption is resulting in āan unprecedented reduction in global demand.ā The announcement involves its nine manufacturing plants in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham. Ā The company, which stopped production at the plants on [ā¦]
March 18, 2020
Business
V.P. Pence asks construction industry to donate masks
At a press conference March 17, Vice President Mike Pence asked all construction companies in the United States to donate their N95 masks to local hospitals and medical clinics to help protect medical teams and patients and slow transmission of the coronavirus. He also asked that construction companies forgo ordering more N95 masks during the [ā¦]
March 18, 2020
Roadbuilding
Boston, PennDOT halt construction projects due to coronavirus; AGC opposes construction bans
Bostonās mayor has called a halt to construction projects in the city for 14 days in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The announcement comes amid a construction boom in Boston, which has 33 reported cases of COVID-19. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has also suspended indefinitely construction projects it oversees. A day after Bostonās announcement, [ā¦]
March 18, 2020
Construction Equipment
Tadano intros 3 rough-terrain cranes with new cabs, engines
Tadano has redesigned three of its GR rough-terrain cranes with more comfortable cabs, new engines and more lifting capacity. The series, for the 75- to 100-ton lifting class, was first launched in 2011 in North America and is composed of models GR-1000XLL-4, GR-1000XL-4 and GR-800XL-4. The new models give operators better visibility of the remodeled [ā¦]
March 17, 2020
Construction Equipment
New DeWalt cordless hammer hits like a heavyweight
The new DeWalt Flexvolt 60V Max SDS combination hammer hits with 10.5 Joules of energy and 380 rpm to take apart even high strength concrete. The 1-Ā¾ inch combination hammer has an optimized drilling range on bits between 5/8 and 1-Ā¼ inches. Constant speed control maintains rpms regardless of bit size or depth. A variable [ā¦]
March 17, 2020
Workforce
Talking Trades, Labor Shortage with Mike Rowe (And a Possible Return of Dirty Jobs?)
During ConExpo 2020 we caught up with our friend Mike Rowe. Mike is most known for his long-running show Dirty Jobs, but heās also a best-selling author and a big proponent for blue collar trades. In this video, Mike and Equipment Worldās Tom Jackson discuss the Mike Rowe Works trade school scholarship, the shortage of [ā¦]
March 16, 2020
Autonomous
Opinion: The dawn of autonomous construction equipment is upon us
If you think autonomous equipment operation is a pipe dream, youād be wrong. About as wrong as the contractors who first doubted GPS machine control. Back in November I attended a prototype demonstration of Doosanās Concept-X autonomous machine technology in Korea. At the demo, we watched an excavator and wheel loader without operators maneuver around [ā¦]
March 16, 2020
Construction Equipment
Vanguard rolls out new line of single-cylinder, horizontal shaft engines
Vanguard is well known for its V-twin engines, so it was big industry news when they rolled out a new line of single-cylinder, horizontal shaft engines at the recent World of Concrete show. There are four engines in the new lineup the 400 (14 hp), 300 (10 hp), 200 (6.5 hp) and 160 (5.0 hp.) [ā¦]
March 13, 2020
Construction Equipment
Kubota unveils its first mini skid steer, the SCL1000
While admitting it has taken its time to enter the market, compact equipment giant Kubota unveiled its first model in the mini skid steer/compact utility loader segment, the 1,000-pound rated operating capacity SCL1000, Wednesday at ConExpo 2020. The machine will be available in the second half of the year. Kubota says it aimed the 1,000-pound [ā¦]
March 12, 2020
Business
With staff out of ConExpo, Volvo CE tries connecting with QR codes
When it comes to construction equipment marketing, there always needs to be a Plan B. Plan B came immediately into play for Volvo Construction Equipment when parent Volvo Group announced on Thursday that it was withdrawing from ConExpo 2020 due to coronavirus safety concerns. Its statement was amended on Friday to say that the full [ā¦]
March 12, 2020
Battery electric
Case CE Unveils First Electric Backhoe, the 580 EV, at ConExpo 2020
At ConExpo 2020, Case Construction Equipment unveiled the very first battery-powered electric backhoe loader. Developed under the name āProject Zeus,ā the loaderās model name is the 580 EV. Check out the video for all the details.
March 11, 2020
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