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Associated Equipment Distributors Washington Fly-In

Nearly every day, lawmakers in Washington are making decisions that will have a big effect on your bottom line. They want, and need, to hear from you; firsthand, about how their actions are impacting your business and your people — on infrastructure, taxes, the environment, labor laws, and more. Meeting face-to-face with your lawmakers is […]

March 27, 2011

Associated Equipment Distributors Washington Fly-In

Nearly every day, lawmakers in Washington are making decisions that will have a big effect on your bottom line. They want, and need, to hear from you; firsthand, about how their actions are impacting your business and your people — on infrastructure, taxes, the environment, labor laws, and more. Meeting face-to-face with your lawmakers is […]

March 27, 2011

Zen and the Art of Parachute Jumping

I wonder. If politicians, wearing government-issue parachutes, jumped out of airplanes (or were pushed, remember they’re politicians) and decided not to deploy the chute to show their voting constituents how reluctant they are to waste taxpayer dollars (remember, they’re politicians) would they pull the rip-chord when the ground got dangerously close? You bet your (fill […]

January 6, 2011

SAFETEA-LU Extended Again. Again.

I suppose the best that can be said of it is that they didn’t go playing brinkmanship games. The House just went ahead and approved a $1.2 trillion continuing resolution to keep federal agencies (including Federal highway programs) funded and thus up and running through the end of September. Next week the Senate may, or […]

December 10, 2010

Mica confirmed as chair of T&I Committee

U.S. Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) was confirmed by vote of the House Republican Conference on Dec. 8 to serve as Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the 112th Congress. Mica will be Florida’s first full Transportation Committee Chairman in Congress. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over the nation’s highways, aviation system, […]

December 8, 2010

Mica confirmed as chair of T&I Committee

U.S. Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) was confirmed by vote of the House Republican Conference on Dec. 8 to serve as Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the 112th Congress.

December 8, 2010

Bye Jim; Hi John

I’m not surprised John Mica will become chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, but like most of you I am surprised that Jim Oberstar will not even be in the House. The turnaround adds more uncertainty to the existing uncertainty about reauthorization. Mica as ranking member of the committee and Oberstar as chairman […]

November 3, 2010

The Kansas Crunch

I keep coming across scenarios that worry me because they could be the tips of icebergs. As funding for transportation projects at all government levels become harder to find and even harder to predict, more and more important projects have to line up for whatever is available. Some must inevitably miss out. Sometimes there are processes […]

November 2, 2010

Bridge Collapses in Minnesota II

This is one of those stories I have to be careful with. The basic story is that a milling machine toppled partly into water when a section of the river bridge it was working on collapsed.It is not the I-35W story again, and it is not blogged here as a sensational story. If anything the […]

October 20, 2010

We’ll drive further per gallon – but on what?

So you know this story by heart. It goes like this: The Highway Trust Fund relies primarily on income from fuel taxes. Its hopelessly short of funds because the gas tax is too low and politicians won’t raise it. And of course the fuel tax is becoming less and less efficient as we drive more […]

September 8, 2010

Texas DOT may get back into the toll business

Come January there will be increasing pressure on TDOT to get into business with private toll road companies. Two years ago lawmakers took away that authority. What a difference two years — at least these last two years — makes. The move fits a rough pattern we are seeing all over the country. As funding […]

August 23, 2010

Construction Equipment

Cat boosts outlook based on quarterly results

Prompting a more optimistic forecast for 2010 as a whole, increased production helped fuel a 91-percent year-over-year hike in second-quarter profit for construction equipment manufacturing giant Caterpillar. “We’ve been highly focused on three things this year – significantly increasing production in response to higher demand from our customers particularly in developing economies, aggressively managing costs […]

July 28, 2010

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