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Business

New Used Rental

Decisions, decisions As most contractors enter their fourth year of uncertain work, equipment choices become more critical. Some key factors to consider as you determine your 2012 equipment strategies: Why Buy New? Aging, slowing fleets best remedied by buying new, efficient equipment The 30-metric-ton excavator you place your top operator into this season will be […]

January 9, 2012

Roadbuilding

Financial District

This month, there may be a real reauthorization debate. Whether it results in anything solid is something of a long shot.

September 7, 2011

Construction Equipment

Final Word

A Congress of Dunces By Kirk Landers Humorist P.J. O’Rourke once referred to the U.S. Congress as “A Parliament of Whores” in a book title, but to use that expression to describe the current Congress would be to grossly malign the world’s oldest profession. This is a parliament of dunces and cowards. Confronted with profound […]

September 4, 2011

Safety

Florida Congressional hearing on major transportation bill today

House Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.) conducted a Congressional field hearing today in Central Florida on pending major transportation legislation. This will be the only scheduled field hearing in Florida on the transportation bill. The Committee is conducting an extensive series of meetings across the country with state and local officials and transportation […]

March 14, 2011

Roadbuilding

Financial District

Transportation stakeholders expecting a comprehensive bill anytime soon could be disappointed, and it is worth recalling what President Ronald Reagan, originally an opponent of a higher gas tax, said in a radio Address to the Nation on proposed legislation for a highway and bridge repair program on November 27, 1982. It fits today’s situation like a glove.

October 1, 2010

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers: Changing tactics Part II

Road industry analysts with insight into the political process have become increasingly dubious about achieving an adequate transportation bill in the political and economic climate that plagues Washington, DC today.

April 1, 2010