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Vocational

PHOTOS: The pickups and work trucks of ICUEE 2017

ICUEE is always a great show for truck gawking and the 2017 edition was no exception. Check out the gallery below to see a selection of the many crane, service and bucket trucks, UTVs and pickups that were on display in Louisville.

October 9, 2017

Construction Equipment

Toro’s new MB TX 2500 Mud Buggy is a versatile, easy to drive tracked site dumper

At the ICUEE 2017 show last week in Louisville, Kentucky, Toro launched a powerful new site dumper designed to traverse a wide range of jobsite terrain. In the past Toro has only offered a wheeled model of its stand-on site dumpers, lovingly called Mud Buggies. The new MB TX 2500 is a tracked model […]

October 9, 2017

Dealers

ALLU adds capacity with new facility in East Brunswick, N.J.

ALLU has opened a new facility in East Brunswick, New Jersey, to give the company more space for warehousing, offices and training. The facility allows the company’s North American subsidiary to remanufacture and recertify pre-owned buckets, ALLU says. It will be used to store aftermarket parts and provide more factory space to increase product inventory […]

October 9, 2017

Roadbuilding

From de-icing to plows, BOSS launches new lineup of snow removal products

BOSS Snowplow has a slew of new products for the upcoming winter, from de-icing liquid to skid steer plows. Pre-Wet System This product represents BOSS’s entrance into liquid de-icing. It allows for pre-wetting of de-icing materials before they are spread, enabling the material to melt snow and ice faster at low temperatures. It comes with […]

October 9, 2017

Pickups

The $100K Super Duty Limited is here. Ford says it has redefined the luxury pickup

Ford’s $100K pickup has arrived. That’s right. Check off all the option boxes for Ford’s new 2018 F-450 Super Duty Limited dually and you’ll hit a MSRP of $94,455. Add the taxes and the fees and you’ve arrived into the exclusive, six-figure Ford pickup club. Ford marketing manager Todd Eckert calls the new Super Duty […]

October 6, 2017

Construction Equipment

Vermeer’s new D40x55DR S3 rock drill uses dual rod technology

Vermeer’s new D40x55DR S3 40,000-pound thrust/pullback horizontal directional drill is designed to tackle challenging rock jobs and give contractors additional crew assignment flexibility. “Most drillers usually have a dedicated guy to run the rock drill,” says Brandon Wagner, application specialist with Vermeer. “This cab is almost identical to our standard D40x50 S3 drill so if […]

October 6, 2017

Contractor of the Year

Former Marine built a successful excavation company with battlefield attitude

Maintaining a family feel while continuing to grow When Carl Jones got out of the U.S. Marine Corps in 1998, his direction was clear: he wanted to run equipment. It didn’t matter that all he had to start with was an old backhoe. He knew how to keep it running, and before long, he added […]

October 6, 2017

Dealers

Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas unveils new dealer look

As part of its transition from being a division of Hyundai Heavy Industries to being part of a stand-alone business focused on construction equipment, Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas is unveiling a new look for its North American dealers. The new signage program incorporates what HCEA calls a “more streamlined version of the company’s logo, as […]

October 6, 2017

Construction Equipment

Ditch Witch AT40 debuts with new All Terrain drilling system

The Ditch Witch AT40 horizontal directional drill—built on the same platform at the JT40 introduced earlier this year at ConExpo—features a new two-pipe All Terrain drilling system that the company says provides 33 percent more torque than competitive units to optimize drilling in hard rock. The new machine was introduced at the ICUEE 2017 show […]

October 5, 2017

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: The heavy equipment, dirt and demos of ICUEE 2017

The Equipment World team has spent the last few days walking the lots and exhibit halls of ICUEE 2017 in Louisville, Kentucky. Known as “the demo show,” ICUEE offers a lot of chances to get behind the controls of some of the latest machines on the market. Below is a collection of photos of all […]

October 5, 2017

Construction Equipment

Vactor unveils concept HXX vacuum excavator designed for maximum payload at ICUEE

Vactor Manufacturing has been designing its concept vacuum excavator for three years and plans to begin production in mid-2018, says Ben Schmidt, company product manager. The company debuted the concept truck, which is designed to evenly distribute payload throughout the vacuum excavation process, at the ICUEE show in Louisville, Kentucky. The design for the new […]

October 5, 2017

Dealers

United Rentals finalizes purchase of Neff for $1.3 billion

United Rentals completed its acquisition of Neff Corporation on October 2 for a total purchase price of $1.3 billion. This marks the second major acquisition by United Rentals this year. In April it completed a $965 million purchase of NES Rentals Holdings. Then, a week after its announcement in August it would purchase Neff, United […]

October 5, 2017