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Roadbuilding

Cat marks mining truck milestone

Caterpillar manufactured and shipped the 500th 797 large mining truck to a coal mining contractor in Austrailia. The 797F, with 400 tons payload capacity, that marks the milestone represents the third generation of the largest mechanical-drive truck ever built. The first 797 started operational testing in late 1998, and the population in the field grew […]

November 4, 2010

Roadbuilding

Peterson reaches new milestone

Peterson Manufacturing celebrated 65 years of business this year. Located in the Kansas City suburb of Grandview, Peterson has evolved from a retail-oriented manufacturer to a quarter-billion-dollar, multi-faceted corporation whose safety lighting products and other services reach millions of customers worldwide. The family-owned company is headquartered on a 44-acre corporate campus of state-of-the-art, 670,000-square-foot facility […]

November 4, 2010