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Driver/operator coaching/training
You may already be in violation of OSHA’s new service truck crane rules and not know it
Editors note: Last week OSHA proposed to delay service truck crane operator certification from November 1014 to November 2017. We have edited the following article to reflect that change. A complex new regulation is shaking up the world of small, truck-mounted cranes used to service construction machines and deliver building materials. Until recently, cranes with […]
May 21, 2013
Business
Construction companies grow while other sectors slow
A new report from Forbes based on numbers from financial information firm Sageworks says that privately-owned construction companies have “bucked the overall trend” and have seen their sales growth continue while other sectors have seen them slow. Construction companies have seen their sales grow since 2009, according to the Sageworks data. They saw 10.19 percent […]
December 14, 2012
Maintenance
Index: Contractors used less fuel in April
The Wright Express Construction Fuel Consumption Index has an intriguing premise: by tracking how much fuel contractors are using at 180,000 fuel and vehicle maintenance locations, it says it can identify emerging trends in construction and the economy at large.  Although contractors used 2.8 percent less fuel than in March this year, March had […]
May 25, 2012
Equipment
Sukut breaks ground on border fence
Sukut Construction, Southern California’s largest excavating company, has started groundbreaking on a 32 foot wide, 5.2 mile section of road that will become a high-tech, high security fence between Mexico and the United States. If anybody wonders why it’s taken so long to build a border fence, check out the picture at the link. This […]
January 6, 2010
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