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Dealers

QUICK DATA: New and used aerial lifts sales trends for March 2014

February 28, 2014

Construction Equipment

Ride along on a 180-foot trip to the top onboard the new Genie SX-180 telescopic boom

It had been a bad technology week. I left the office with a fully-charged new tablet that died on the plane out. Then I found my camera had a corrupted SD card. The in-flight entertainment screen on a 5-hour flight didn’t work in my seat—just my seat. And as soon as I reached the rental […]

January 19, 2014

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Low temps freeze construction equipment and materials beneath Vermont bridge, delay concrete pours for Cincinnati streetcar

Count these two crews in Vermont and Cincinnati among those in the construction  industrystymied by the freezing temperatures of the Polar Vortex earlier this week. In Brattleboro, Vermont, a crew with PCL Civil Constructors Inc. found a crane, an aerial lift and a load of materials for a bridge repair on Interstate 91 frozen in the […]

January 9, 2014

Safety

Associations issue aerial work platform safety document

Four associations have joined together to issue a 36-page best practices document on workplace risk assessment and selecting the most appropriate aerial work platform for a job, it was announced at The Rental Show. The American Rental Association, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the International Powered Access Federation and the Scaffold & Access Industry Association […]

February 13, 2013

Construction Equipment

Pre-Bauma 2013 Day 2 wrap up: New Holland, Doosan, Bobcat, Liugong and more

Editor’s Note: Click here to read John’s Day 1 impressions from Pre-Bauma 2013. Winds are up but so is the temperature (a little) in Munich for the pre-Bauma media dialogue and our quick preview of some of the big April show debuts. Let’s get to it. Vogele says it will present eleven world firsts in […]

January 30, 2013

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Quick Data: Aerial Lifts

A snapshot of new and used sales trends from Randall-Reilly’s Equipment Data Associates and TopBid auction price service.

January 1, 2013

Equipment

Intermat Overview

Tier 4 Final intros headline Intermat   By Marcia Gruver Doyle and John Latta     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, with […]

May 25, 2012

Business

RentSmart

Volvo Rents: 88 stores and counting Following a reorganization last year, Volvo Rents is concentrating on expanding its company-owned rental locations, while retaining some of its former franchisees. As of press time, Volvo Rents latest acquisition was Midwest Aerials and Equipment, with stores in St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield, Missouri; and Bloomington, Illinois. This […]

January 10, 2012