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Construction Equipment

Online rental site BigRentz.com adds earthmoving equipment

The largest online provider of construction rental equipment has added earthmoving equipment to its offering. BigRentz.com‘s new Dirt Division offers rentals of backhoes, excavators, graders, dozers, skid-steers and wheel loaders. That adds to the company’s initial offering of boom lifts, forklifts, scissor lifts and reach forklifts. BigRentz says its team of experienced professionals is available […]

September 24, 2013

Construction Equipment

Quick data 6/13: Graders

June 3, 2013

Workforce

Simformotion releases Caterpillar M-Series motor grader simulator

Simformotion has released the Cat Simulators M-Series Motor Grader System, a simulation trainer set in a road construction environment that enables operators to learn the same machine applications they will find on the jobsite. The simulations enable new operators to learn without using fuel or pulling a machine from a jobsite, as well as allowing the […]

November 6, 2012

Success Stories

Construction heritage runs deep with Jonathan Lane, JML Trucking & Excavating

By Mike Anderson     Jonathan Lane Errol, New Hampshire   JML Trucking & Excavating Year started: 2001 Number of employees: 35 Annual volume: $5 to $7 million Markets served: Site prep, road building, winter maintenance, forestry, underground utilities     Up in the North Woods of New Hampshire, a cool, crisp 25 degrees constitutes […]

October 4, 2012

Workforce

Reporter

By Equipment World Staff     Dozer, grader advances highlight Deere’s 175th   This year, John Deere celebrates its 175th year, a history that includes the company’s entry into construction equipment in the mid-1950s. Key products along the way include: 1958: The first all-hydraulic dozer, the Model 64, featured a new six-way power-angle-tilt (PAT) blade. The operator could control tilt, angle, […]

August 28, 2012

Safety

Final Word

Where the Jobs Are   If there is one bright spot in the economy and employment numbers it’s in the energy development field. There are plenty of good paying jobs from the Canadian oil sands to the shale gas in South Texas for people who’ve got the moxie to seek them out. Take Carrie Sims, […]

August 27, 2012

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Hawthorne Cat distributes NorAm 65E

Hawthorne Cat has begun representing the NorAm 65E compact motor grader in their nine locations in California and Hawaii. Hawthorne sells, rents, and supports the 65E at each branch location including their Cat Rental stores, Hawthorne Rent-It Service.

August 10, 2012

Construction Equipment

What’s been happening with graders? [Infographic]

As highlighted in the August issue of Equipment World, trend prices for the top 10 grader models sold at auction are on the upswing, but still have a ways to go from their five-year-plus peak of $156,585 in February 2007. According to the TopBid auction price service, the top auction price during the May 2011-May […]

August 7, 2012

Construction Equipment

Dozer, grader advances highlight Deere’s 175th

[youtube UaaDp-lMaC4 nolink] It all started with the self-scouring plow in 1837. This year, John Deere celebrates its 175th year, a history that includes the company’s entry into construction equipment in the mid-1950s. Key products along the way include: 1958: The first all-hydraulic dozer, the Model 64, featured a new six-way power-angle-tilt (PAT) blade. The […]

August 7, 2012

Construction Equipment

Quick Data

GRADERS   A snapshot of new and used sales trends from Randall-Reilly’s Equipment Data Associates and TopBid auction price service.   By Marcia Gruver Doyle                           $330,000 Top auction price, May 2011 to May 2012, paid for a 2008 Caterpillar 14M at a […]

August 6, 2012

Construction Equipment

NorAm appoints new dealers

Wagner Equipment Company, based in Aurora, Colorado, now represent the NorAm 65E compact motor grader in Colorado, New Mexico and west Texas. The company, which includes Wagner Rents, sells, rents, and supports the 65E at each branch location including their network of Wagner Rents Stores. Thompson Tractor, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is the new NorAm […]

July 30, 2012

Roadbuilding

Intermat Overview

Tier 4 Final engines and transmissions with claims of double-digit leaps in fuel economy headlined Intermat, which took place in Paris, France, April 16-21; Selective Catalytic Reduction, or SCR, is the front runner in Tier 4 Final technology.

June 9, 2012