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Roadbuilding

Boston, PennDOT halt construction projects due to coronavirus; AGC opposes construction bans

Boston’s mayor has called a halt to construction projects in the city for 14 days in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The announcement comes amid a construction boom in Boston, which has 33 reported cases of COVID-19. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has also suspended indefinitely construction projects it oversees. A day after Boston’s announcement, […]

March 18, 2020

Construction Equipment

Tadano intros 3 rough-terrain cranes with new cabs, engines

Tadano has redesigned three of its GR rough-terrain cranes with more comfortable cabs, new engines and more lifting capacity. The series, for the 75- to 100-ton lifting class, was first launched in 2011 in North America and is composed of models GR-1000XLL-4, GR-1000XL-4 and GR-800XL-4. The new models give operators better visibility of the remodeled […]

March 17, 2020

Construction Equipment

New DeWalt cordless hammer hits like a heavyweight

The new DeWalt Flexvolt 60V Max SDS combination hammer hits with 10.5 Joules of energy and 380 rpm to take apart even high strength concrete. The 1-¾ inch combination hammer has an optimized drilling range on bits between 5/8 and 1-¼ inches. Constant speed control maintains rpms regardless of bit size or depth. A variable […]

March 17, 2020

Workforce

Talking Trades, Labor Shortage with Mike Rowe (And a Possible Return of Dirty Jobs?)

During ConExpo 2020 we caught up with our friend Mike Rowe. Mike is most known for his long-running show Dirty Jobs, but he’s also a best-selling author and a big proponent for blue collar trades. In this video, Mike and Equipment World‘s Tom Jackson discuss the Mike Rowe Works trade school scholarship, the shortage of […]

March 16, 2020

Autonomous

Opinion: The dawn of autonomous construction equipment is upon us

If you think autonomous equipment operation is a pipe dream, you’d be wrong. About as wrong as the contractors who first doubted GPS machine control. Back in November I attended a prototype demonstration of Doosan’s Concept-X autonomous machine technology in Korea. At the demo, we watched an excavator and wheel loader without operators maneuver around […]

March 16, 2020

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Cat unveils new D7 dozer; Case unveils first electric backhoe; Kubota intros first mini skid steer; Electric Volvo VNL test drive; Cat Kinetic Ice+ Boot Review

VIDEO: Reviewing Cat’s Kinetic Ice+ Boots’ Vibram Ice Traction, Insulation from the Arctic Circle Recently, Tom Jackson had a chance to test out some cold weather boots and gloves in Alaska—north of the Arctic Circle in fact—in temps as low as -30 degrees. The boots are a new product offering from Cat Footwear called the […]

March 16, 2020

Construction Equipment

Vanguard rolls out new line of single-cylinder, horizontal shaft engines

Vanguard is well known for its V-twin engines, so it was big industry news when they rolled out a new line of single-cylinder, horizontal shaft engines at the recent World of Concrete show. There are four engines in the new lineup the 400 (14 hp), 300 (10 hp), 200 (6.5 hp) and 160 (5.0 hp.) […]

March 13, 2020

Dealers

LBX names CRW southeastern Pennsylvania Link-Belt dealer

LBX has added CRW Corporation to its dealer network serving southeastern Pennsylvania. CRW will sell, service and rent Link-Belt excavators in the Pennsylvania counties of Adams, Centre, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Schuylkill, Snyder, Union and York. Established in 1961 in South Burlington, Vermont, CRW now has […]

March 13, 2020

Construction Equipment

Kubota unveils its first mini skid steer, the SCL1000

While admitting it has taken its time to enter the market, compact equipment giant Kubota unveiled its first model in the mini skid steer/compact utility loader segment, the 1,000-pound rated operating capacity SCL1000, Wednesday at ConExpo 2020. The machine will be available in the second half of the year. Kubota says it aimed the 1,000-pound […]

March 12, 2020

Business

With staff out of ConExpo, Volvo CE tries connecting with QR codes

When it comes to construction equipment marketing, there always needs to be a Plan B. Plan B came immediately into play for Volvo Construction Equipment when parent Volvo Group announced on Thursday that it was withdrawing from ConExpo 2020 due to coronavirus safety concerns. Its statement was amended on Friday to say that the full […]

March 12, 2020

Dealers

Ritchie Bros. creates Appraisal Services division, offers USPAP-compliant equipment appraisals

Auction giant Ritchie Bros. has formalized its appraisal services, and launched a new division, Ritchie Bros. Appraisal Services. “We have been providing appraisal services for a while now, but we’re adding USPAP [Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice]-compliant appraisals to our menu and formally bundling all of these under a new Ritchie Bros. Appraisal Services […]

March 12, 2020

Dealers

H&E Equipment Services opens new Birmingham facility

H&E Equipment Services has opened a new branch in the Birmingham, Alabama, area. Located in Bessemer, Alabama, the 26,500-square-foot facility sits on 5.5 acres and features a fenced-in area, offices, parts warehouse and a repair shop with 10 service bays. The facility adjoins an existing H & E crane facility and is the company’s fifth […]

March 12, 2020