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Dealers

JLG offers website to prepare customers for future aerial lift standards

JLG is providing resource materials on its website to educate customers about proposed new standards for aerial work platforms. The proposed American National Standards Institute standards, known as ANSI A92, would affect machine design, training and safety and lead to changes for manufacturers, equipment dealers, rental shops and contractors. JLG says it expects the standards […]

December 22, 2017

Roadbuilding

3 contractors, 2 VDOT employees plead guilty to snowplow bribery

Two Virginia Department of Transportation officials and three contractors pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme in which the officials awarded snowplowing contracts in exchange for some of the profits, according to The Washington Post. VDOT officials Kenneth D. Adams, 42, and Anthony Willie, 55, took about $500,000 in bribes and have pleaded guilty to federal […]

November 20, 2017

Dealers

Business Roundup: Liebherr sees orders jump; Tax overhaul a mixed bag for dealers; Proposed AWP standards would affect rentals; Dealer Institute course on managing iron; New Atlas Copco VPs; Construction starts predicted to rise

Liebherr sees “significant” jump in orders; uses start-up culture to launch products Liebherr says it will add 2,240 employees by the end of this year, seeing what Stefan Heissler, member of the board of directors of Liebherr-International AG, calls a “very significant jump in orders” in 2017. In the first six months of 2017, Liebherr […]

November 7, 2017

Dealers

Proposed aerial-lift standards would affect rental dealers, contractors

New standards could soon be coming to the U.S. aerial work platform industry that will lead to major changes to the machines, how rental shops deal with their customers and how contractors plan projects. Manufacturers, such as Genie, are already making plans for the ANSI A92 standards with design changes to their aerial lift products, […]

October 31, 2017

Roadbuilding

$84.7 million worth of road projects let by Louisiana DOTD

Sixteen contractors submitted low bids for 25 road projects worth $84.7 million for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. The projects and their apparent low bids, ranging from $150,000 to $20 million, are as follows, according to the DOTD: S. 190 superstreet project in St. Tammany Parish: $9,169,117.44 Livonia signage enhancement project in Pointe […]

September 25, 2017

Business

Sustaining fourth-generation construction business required many late nights at Livengood Excavators

About five years ago, Leo Livengood got a phone call from a former client. The call was from the second generation of a family he and his father had worked with, and they had a question: Would Livengood Excavators do the site work on a new drive-in theater the family was building, which was going […]

July 14, 2017

Business

Construction is driven by people, not machines

Certain themes repeat themselves when we talk to contractors: The 20-hour days to get a construction company started … and to keep it going. The great financial risks for miniscule margins. The inherent joy of building something. But the most prevalent comment we hear from contractors concerns their people. “We couldn’t do this without the […]

July 13, 2017

Business

South Carolina’s Chipley Company named 2017 Contractor of the Year

Roy Chipley, owner of the Chipley Company in Florence, South Carolina, was named Equipment World’s 2017 Contractor of the Year at ceremonies in Las Vegas on Saturday. In 1995, Chipley walked away from from a successful career with Lockheed Martin—where he worked on space shuttle missions with NASA and later asset deployment with the Defense Department—to […]

March 13, 2017

Business

Here are the 12 finalists for our 2017 Contractor of the Year award

While it came down to some tough decisions, the Equipment World editors have named the 12 finalists for the magazine’s 2017 Contractor of the Year award, now in its 17th year. Sponsored by Caterpillar since its inception in 2000, the Equipment World Contractor of the Year event honors 12 finalists during a weekend event that […]

December 9, 2016

Business

How Louisiana contractor Dieudonne Enterprises rose in Katrina’s wake

Hurricane Katrina is simply called “The Storm” in New Orleans, and that’s certainly a description of what it created in Tina Dieudonne’s life. Her small, tourist-related businesses took a hit in the storm’s aftermath, and she realized she needed to look for another opportunity. She found it in the massive rebuilding that consumed the city […]

October 28, 2016

Business

California’s Hansen Bros. is a family construction business in more ways than one

Jeff Hansen knows a thing or two about tests, not the kind you get in school but the kind life throws at you—sometimes known as opportunities. Although Hansen grew up working in the construction business started by his grandfather and great uncles, he traveled out of state to attend college at the University of Nevada […]

August 26, 2016

Contractor of the Year

Nominations now open for Equipment World’s Contractor of the Year contest

The Equipment World Contractor of the Year contest, which honors 12 finalists each year, is now open for nominations. Designed to honor contractors who have excelled in their markets, the contest is open to construction firm owners who have been in business 10 years or more, have between $3 million and $15 million in annual […]

August 15, 2016