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Roadbuilding

RigDig Truck History Reports assist with used vehicle law compliance

California’s legislation requiring that used vehicle dealers, including heavy-duty truck dealers, post a red warning label on vehicles flagged in a federal database as junk, salvage, total loss, or title branded mark’s the nation’s first law (Assembly Bill 1215) of this kind. California AB 1215 mandates all dealers using the California Electronic Titling (ELT) system […]

October 31, 2011

Technology

Top Financed Equipment

Milling machines These top financed machines met the market with leveling technology and powered wrap-around endgates. By Lauren Heartsill Dowdle The Wirtgen W 2100, which replaced the W 2100 DC, drills up to 32 centimeters deep, with a milling width of 7 feet 2 inches. The W 200 and W 210 cold mills replace the […]

September 5, 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

Roadbuilding

Special Report: EQUIPMENT’S BRAVE NEW WORLD

Where we are, how we got here and what happens next. by Kirk Landers, editor emeritus, Better Roads   A recovery is coming for the U.S. construction industry. It will be long and slow. It will be different than other recoveries. And it will require planning. Even in the early stages, it is likely to […]

March 4, 2011

Roadbuilding

On Record

What’s Next? By Marcia Gruver Doyle So where do we go from here? The editors of Randall-Reilly’s Construction Division – including Equipment World, Better Roads and Aggregates Manager – take a hard look at that question in this issue’s special report. Before we even attempted to delve into this subject, however, we felt it was […]

March 2, 2011

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus

Write this down and put it somewhere prominent: The Great Recession will end.

March 1, 2011

Roadbuilding

Mike Anderson’s American Iron

The U.S. market alone was on target to finance close to 1,200 tracked and rubber-tired asphalt pavers in 2010. That’s essentially the same as 2009.

February 1, 2011

Roadbuilding

Highway Contractor

Buying, leasing or renting: now is a good time to work an equipment deal using one, two or all three in the mix.

July 1, 2010