Tag: Alan Fennimore

Machine Matters

How to build out the perfect work truck by taking advantage of dealer spec’ing technologies

Not long ago spec’ing a vocational truck meant going to a dealer, picking from a limited list of wheelbases and axle ratings, selecting a few options for the cab and then welding, drilling and cutting until all your equipment fit. Those were the Dark Ages of truck building. What we have now is a period […]

November 1, 2013

Equipment

Machine Matters

A loader first and foremost New features, options place the traditional single-purpose wheel loader into more applications, keeping it working in tough times By Mike Anderson The 135- to 174-horsepower wheel loader is often perceived as a throwback: Valued as a highly functional, reliable, yet often single-purpose machine. It’s been a rank-and-file plodder, if you […]

August 3, 2011