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Recruiting & retention

On Record

Around the Table Eavesdrop on what top contractors are saying. By Marcia Gruver Doyle Talking with the finalists last month during our 2012 Contractor of the Year event opened up a rich vein of experience and wisdom. You’ll get to met each of them in the coming months, but for right now I thought you’d […]

April 5, 2012

Maintenance

Reporter

Symposium covers critical equipment issues Coming engine technology will create tougher lubrication challenges, said Len Badal, Chevron Lubricants, speaking at the Chevron Construction Symposium 2011, held in November. One example: piston design changes that reduce the crevice volume. “Low-emission design places greater demands on engine oil due to higher top ring temperatures,” Badal said. Increasing […]

January 10, 2012

Business

CONEXPO/CONAGG 2011

CONEXPO-CON/AGG What it means to you and the future of the industry Staff Reports With a backdrop of 20-percent construction unemployment and two years of abysmal machine sales, the tri-annual heavy equipment trade show CONEXPO-CON/AGG opened on March 22nd, in Las Vegas – ground zero in the housing bust and a town still reeling from […]

May 4, 2011

ConExpo-Con/Agg

Lumidigm to provide telematics solution at CONEXPO-CON/AGG

Lumidigm customers can verify who operates their equipment with the company’s multispectral imaging sensor, which provides biometric fingerprint authentication. The turnkey telematics solution will be showcased at CONEXPO-CON/AGG as part of the Rugged Telematics Alliance Ecosystem, developed with Methode Electronics. The fingerprint authentication system works in dry, wet and dirty conditions, and enables the owner […]

March 16, 2011

Roadbuilding

Special Report

Backhoes By Tom Jackson, executive editor, Equipment World   Contractors extend trade-in times, rely on used equipment As with just about every other category of equipment, the sales of both new and used backhoes plunged between 2006 and 2010. What’s a little less obvious until you do the math is the ratio of new to […]

March 4, 2011

Machine control

Technology

Tech tools Track, control, monitor and easily transfer information By Tom Jackson From pickups to dozers, telematics system tracks anything in your fleet If it’s a machine and it moves, you can track and manage it with the new Navman Wireless Qtanium 300 GPS tracking device. Designed to work with both on-highway trucks and off-road […]

November 9, 2010

Business

Maintenance

Information flows in mixed fleet applications using new AEMP telematics standards     If you’ve stayed away from telematics* in the past because of the complexity, good news is coming. Starting in October, an industry-wide standard will take effect that makes it possible to collect mixed fleet data from multiple OEMs and download it into […]

September 9, 2010

Business

Technology

Advanced telematics Making the case for moving into full-featured systems from third party providers By Tom Jackson When the Association for Equipment Management Professionals new telematics standard goes into effect in October (see the June 2010 issue of Equipment World), data collection will start getting a whole lot easier. That’s when it will be possible […]

August 1, 2010