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Roadbuilding

Highway Contractor

Alternative fuels can power your winter operations fleet; why one Iowa city has confidence in its winter operators;“sustainability” is an increasingly influential factor in developing winter maintenance programs.

June 9, 2012

Safety

Arizona DOT explores solar lighting to save on fuel

Vehicles from the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) are pulling off to the side with emergency lights running to alert drivers of workers as the agency continues to look into using solar power to run these emergency lights. To use emergency lights, the vast majority of roadside crews need to keep their vehicles running, which […]

May 8, 2012

Equipment

Maintenance

Alternative fuels (first of a 3-part series) Natural gas and propane autogas These are truly “green” fuels, all-American, cost competitive and loaded with horsepower. For medium- and heavy-duty truck applications, though, these fuels can’t be beat. By Tom Jackson It used to be simple. There was diesel, and there was gasoline. Now there’s gasoline, E10 […]

August 3, 2011

Business

The best bill to ever come out of Congress

Forget everything else the Federal government is doing now. The Natural Gas bill, aka HR 1835 is coming up for a vote. If it passes it will do more to boost the economy, strengthen our balance of trade deficit and put more people to work than any other single initiative. It would also be a boon for the construction […]

March 4, 2010

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A 75 mpg car

Runs on butanol. Dow chemical is pushing the idea (of course they make butanol). But it’s not far fetched. Compressed natural gas is another similar, high mileage, low pollution fuel source. Asian car and truck makers such as Isuzu already make CNG vehicles for India and China. And ROUSH has a Liquid Propane Injected conversion kit […]

January 11, 2010

Equipment

McNeilus debuts CNG powered concrete mixer

Truck body and concrete mixer manufacturer McNeilus today announced the introduction of the industry’s first concrete mixer truck powered by compressed natural gas. Compared to similar sized diesel trucks the McNeilus CNG concrete mixer offers lower fuel costs, reduced noise and emissions that are six times cleaner. McNeilus has been manufacturing CNG powered refuse trucks […]

January 11, 2010

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Corn-based ethanol–bad for consumers, environment

The Wall Street Journal has the numbers. Ironically, these negative conclusions come from the government itself, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Congressional Budget Office, yet the Obama administration has a big push on to increase ethanol blends in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent.

January 11, 2010

Technology

Komatsu to make hybrid excavators in China this year

The race to be the first with the most as far as alternative energy construction machines is heating up with the announcement that Komatsu will start manufacturing it’s diesel-electric hybrid excavators in China this year. Kotmasu claims the machine will be 25 percent more fuel efficient. The other two machines in this race are Volvo’s […]

January 11, 2010

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Another black eye for ethanol

Apparently it takes three times as much water to process corn into fuel-grade ethanol than had been previously estimated. Bad news if you live in an area plagued with droughts. In a best case scenario it takes about 100 gallons of water to produce a gallon of ethanol. But in some areas is may take as […]

April 14, 2009