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Technology

FAA releases finalized commercial drone rules, tossing out need for special exemptions

The Federal Aviation Administration today announced that it has finalized regulations on the commercial use of drones in U.S. airspace. The official regulations, which will take effect in August, aren’t all that different from the restrictions businesses agreed to operate within as part of the Section 333 exemption formerly required for all commercial drone flights. The main difference […]

June 21, 2016

Dealers

Yanmar acquires Terex’s compact construction equipment business

Terex announced today that it has agreed to sell its German compact construction business to Yanmar. The deal is for $60 million cash and is expected to close in the second half of this year. Terex’s compact construction business makes and sells midi/mini excavators, wheeled excavators and compact wheel loaders. As part of the deal, […]

June 21, 2016

Pickups

Inside the 2017 F-250 King Ranch: Ford’s Super Duty trucks get bigger and lighter

The integration of aluminum into Ford’s famed F-Series pickup line was a risky move. For a brand that bills itself as “Built Ford Tough,” the introduction of the lighter-weight alloy exposed the F-150, the best-selling pickup for a generation, to criticism. Competitors pounced, but the consumers who actually buy the trucks have barely flinched. Through […]

June 20, 2016

Construction Equipment

Low-speed wheel loader chase ensues after man smashes, burgles liquor store

A man in Anchorage, Alaska, was arrested recently for stealing a wheel loader, smashing into a liquor store, stealing a few bottles of alcohol and ultimately leading police on a low-speed chase in the machine. According to a report from the Alaska Dispatch News, 38-year-old Joseph Martin allegedly stole the loader, owned by Green Acres […]

June 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

Volvo CE’s Co-Pilot in-cab tablet control module wins design award

Volvo Construction Equipment’s Co-Pilot system, introduced at the Bauma show earlier this year in Munich, has won the 2016 Car HMI Awards’ “Most Innovative Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Feature” category. “Volvo Co-Pilot is the first step towards an integrated, holistic solution for worksite optimization,” says Sidney Levy, design director at Volvo CE.  “The system offers the equivalent […]

June 20, 2016

Roadbuilding

Sakai appoints new Southeast district, national light equipment sales managers

Sakai America has named Joseph Seckinger as the company’s Southeast district manager, and Dale Wilson as national light equipment sales manager. Seckinger will be responsible for customer support for dealerships in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee for products ranging from 36-inch double-drum asphalt rollers to 15-ton single-drum dirt compactors. He started his […]

June 20, 2016

Machine control

GPS/GNSS 101: How machine control systems work and what you need to get started

For the contractors who invest in them, GPS/GNSS systems can deliver huge gains in earthmoving productivity, accuracy and speed. But because these are electronic and digital products, and because full blown GPS/GNSS systems for automated blade control can cost $60,000 to $100,000 per machine, many contractors have not taken the leap. If the complexity of […]

June 17, 2016

Construction Equipment

Cab of the first 3D-printed excavator will have a certain alien spacecraft vibe

A 3D-printed excavator is one step closer to reality thanks a collaboration between the Association of Equipment Manufacturers and ConExpo-Con/Agg. AEM has announced that an engineering team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won the contest to design a functional excavator cab that will be 3D-printed and on display at the Tech Experience held in conjunction […]

June 17, 2016

Vocational

New Ford telematics system by Telogis launching soon, promising big fleet savings

Starting this summer, the new Ford Telematics Maintenance Connect by Telogis will be available for all existing and new Ford Telematics customers. Ford and Telogis say that the factory-fit telematics system is an industry first that will allow commercial customers to share their vehicle’s performance and diagnostic data with the Ford dealer of their choice. RELATED […]

June 17, 2016

Vocational

Test Drive: 2017 Ford F-650 is a big ol’ Super Duty at heart

Sitting in Ford’s F-650, towering above the surrounding traffic, feels strangely familiar. Strange only because I haven’t driven the truck before, but familiar because of how much of its design is shared with its Super Duty siblings. This generation F-650 gets a facelift that puts exterior styling and interior comforts more inline with the rest of […]

June 16, 2016

Class 7-8

Electric hauler Nikola One’s huge range, high-tech comforts draw 7,000+ pre-orders

Still five months from the truck’s official debut, Nikola Motor Company founder and CEO Trevor Milton recently announced more than 7,000 reservations—each accompanied with a refundable $1,500 deposit—have been received for the company’s Nikola One electric Class 8 truck. “Our technology is 10-15 years ahead of any other OEM in fuel efficiencies, MPG and emissions,” Milton […]

June 16, 2016

Construction Equipment

Bobcat intros bi-directional UTV landplane attachment

Bobcat has introduced a new attachment for its 2015 model year 3650 utility vehicles that can assist in site prep and landscaping applications. The new landplane attachment allows operators to work in both forward and reverse and has numerous uses on the jobsite: Breaking up hard ground Leveling high points Pulverize soil clods Sift soil […]

June 16, 2016