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The Other Side of the Glass Door

I had a dog once that loved to sunbath indoors, resting beside a sliding glass patio door. Outside would come strolling the neighborhood tortoiseshell cat, flop herself down on the other side of the glass and languidly do her own sunbathing. My dog went nuts, barking, scratching, clawing and demonstrating 50 ways of tearing a […]

July 2, 2012

Business

1,000 days without a transportation bill…a ticking time bomb

We have reached a milestone today. It's the 1,000th day without a transportation bill. However, this is not a milestone to celebrate.

June 28, 2012

Business

You got a ‘D’? Well, that’s okay, school’s hard.

If your children come home with ‘D’ on their report cards, do you ignore it,accept it, because, hey, they look like they’re doing okay? Or do you hit the roof?” Our transportation infrastructure is not falling apart at the seams, ready to collapse around our ears. And that may be part of the problem. Trying […]

June 19, 2012

Construction Equipment

Let’s say reauthorization was a simple thing

It could be a really interesting week in the surface transportation reauthorization debate in the Congressional conference committee. If you step way, way back from it, it’s possible to argue that the basics of an agreement are there on the one hand for a clean, sensible, no frills, hard-working bill — and a series of […]

June 10, 2012

Construction Equipment

FY13 funding for DOT released. Ouch!

The House Appropriations Committee has released the fiscal year 2013 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill. Apparently the old adage that the first cut is the deepest isn’t always true. All of the proposed cuts hurt. But there is 39.1B from the Highway Trust Fund for the Federal Highway program (until a reauthorization bill […]

June 6, 2012

Business

Drive Now, Pay Later.

Interesting, basic approach to the argument for borrowing to build/maintain/repair our transportation infrastructure in the New York Times. Written by a Cornell University economics professor, Robert H. Frank. Agree or disagree he makes a fairly basic argument. And clarity from any point of view in this debate is actually quite refreshing. May we regress to […]

June 5, 2012

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Schuster: Obama will sign transportation bill by Fall

Congress member Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), chair of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, & Hazardous Materials, predicts President Barack Obama will sign a transportation bill — with a provision to build the Keystone Pipeline included — in September or October, according to a report from Transportation Nation. Environmentalists have opposed construction of the pipeline, and […]

May 15, 2012

Roadbuilding

Lattatudes

If a bill squeaks through, there needs to be a lot of work done to ensure that the reforms are implemented as quickly as possible.

April 6, 2012

Roadbuilding

A bitter little House whine

“I can’t, it’s too hard.” There are a lot of ideographic catch phrases we associate with Americans. This isn’t one of them. I don’t believe George Washington or Admiral Farragut or John Paul Jones or Abraham Lincoln ever said it. For that matter I don’t suppose Muhammad Ali or Tim Tebow ever did either.But it […]

March 30, 2012

Technology

NTEA Work Truck Show 2012 sets new records

NTEA, the Work Truck Show 2012, held March 6-8 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, was the biggest work truck event in history. It broke all standing event records, with a verified 10,408 attendees checking out work trucks and equipment from 563 exhibitors. The event’s Green Truck Summit on March 5-6 also hit new […]

March 27, 2012

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Conexpo-Con/AGG 2014

Event: Start Date: 03/04/14 End Date: 03/08/14 Phone: (800) 867-6060 Web: www.conexpoconagg.com

March 21, 2012

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American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA)

Event: 49th Annual Meeting Start Date: 11/26/12 End Date: 11/30/12 Phone: (847) 966-2272 Web: www.pavement.com

March 21, 2012