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Trekker Tractor opens Orlando location, authorized Case dealer

Trekker Tractor has opened a new location in Orlando. The new location is at 9481 Boggy Creek Road. The only authorized dealer for Case Construction equipment in Florida, Trekker Tractor now has five locations throughout the state, and the entire line is available at all their locations. “We are excited about expanding our operations,” Ronald […]

August 2, 2011

AGC: Aviation hold putting 24,000 construction jobs at risk

Associated General Contractors of America’s chief economist says Congressional failure to pass federal aviation legislation is putting roughly 24,000 construction jobs at risk. Ken Simonson says the failure to act has halted $2.5 billion worth of airport construction projects. “With so few construction segments doing well, halting an entire category of federally-funded construction projects is […]

July 27, 2011

Remote control for Cat mining dozers

As part of the new MineStar mining operations and equipment management system, Caterpillar has launched an integrated remote control system for D10T and D11T crawler dozers. Command for dozing is the first globally-available product within the Command Capability Set of the new Cat MineStar, a system made up of five building blocks built on existing […]

May 19, 2011

Fecon hires technical service advisor

Fecon Inc. is proud to announce Mike Karre as the newest addition to their product support team. Karre’s responsibilities will include traveling within Fecon’s dealer network to provide technical support and to assist with new machine deliveries and start-ups. Karre joins Fecon with ten plus years of service experience; most recently he worked for a Komatsu […]

April 25, 2011

Mile High Club First

Here we are talking about being bold in looking at how we think of American infrastructure spending and building, and the Saudis are setting out to build a tower one mile high. So high it will have a special mechanism to stop it tipping over. Which may go to prove an old, obvious point. There […]

April 12, 2011

Reading CONEXPO’s Upbeat Signs

The “official” stamp of success will come later when all the numbers are run, but CONEXPO certainly feels like we have reached the end of the beginning of the turnaround.I’m enjoying the upbeat feeling here. OEMs have presented numbers that are evidence of a slow but concrete upward movement and their lead executives’ press conference […]

March 25, 2011

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Scania engines aim for America

By Mike Anderson LAS VEGAS – Scania is ready to power North American construction equipment, the company proclaimed Thursday at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011. In outlining the Swedish-based company’s solutions to Tier 4 Interim diesel emissions requirements, senior vice president Robert Sobocki noted Scania’s supporting rapid expansion of a North American service network over the past year, […]

March 25, 2011

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Caterpillar celebrates Generations

By Mike Anderson LAS VEGAS – Surrounded by the green of Caterpillar’s Generations Park, John Disharoon noted the 30-percent increase in efficiency and 30-percent reduction in emissions of what his company has long termed a “track-type tractor.” “Most of you are thinking I’m talking about the D7E right next to me – and those are […]

March 22, 2011

AGC survey: fewer contractors plan to buy new equipment in 2011

Only 28 percent of contractor respondents to a mid-December survey conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America say they plan to purchase new construction equipment in 2011, down from the 34 percent that reported purchasing equipment in a similar survey conducted last year. There is good news, however: Firms report plans to spend nearly $900,000 on […]

January 25, 2011

Build now, pay later

A $1.8 billion road project in Florida is being done for the state without the state itself paying a penny for it. Yet. The repair and widening of I-595 will be finished before the contractor gets paid. It’s a public-private arrangement and another example of creativity in finding ways to work on our bridges an […]

January 24, 2011

Mike Anderson’s American Iron

Please keep telling anyone and everyone you can about the need for proper funding of infrastructure, including but not exclusively highways and bridges.

December 1, 2010

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Asset communication platform provides free listings for project opportunities

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November 22, 2010

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