Tag: equipment operation

Roadbuilding

Volvo CE Road Institute offers fall paving classes, big discount for early registration

Volvo Construction Equipment invites roadbuilders to two asphalt paving classes. Also, early registration can get you a significant discount. Learn more here.

September 10, 2018

Roadbuilding

How to avoid highway work zone injuries and deaths

Serious injury and death is becoming an all-too-common occurrence for highway construction workers. Although workers aren’t always at fault, there are several preventable measures that can be taken to help reduce the risk of such a horrible and tragic accident. Here are several steps that can be taken to help keep road crews safe: Use […]

August 22, 2014

Technology

Xbox-like remote control could make operating construction equipment as easy as playing video games (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=87] Over the years, advances in controls have greatly improved intuitiveness and thus simplified the operation of construction equipment in many cases. Beyond that, ever-improving GPS technology and machines like Komatsu’s intelligent Machine Control dozers and upcoming excavator, point to a not-so-distant future where a lot of operators could be doing so from outside of […]

June 5, 2014

Safety

Safety Watch

In Harm’s Way Avert danger by knowing where moving equipment is at all times The accident: A skid steer operator was backdragging a section of a concrete contractor’s yard used for concrete testing. A cement truck driver approaching the construction trailer failed to use the sidewalk, instead walking through the area behind the skid steer. […]

December 9, 2011