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Ohio DOT, municipalities to save big on road salt this winter
The Ohio Department of Transportation and municipalities across the state can expect to save about $5 million on road salt costs this winter. That’s because, according to a Columbus Dispatch report, the cost of road salt dropped this year to an average of $35.83 per ton — down from $40.91 per ton last year and […]
October 11, 2013
Roadbuilding
Focus on the Process
How equipment improvement process saved company $500,000 in maintenance costs
October 2, 2013
Maintenance
On Record
Contractor strategies staying the course Maybe it was the luck of the draw, but when we interviewed contractors for our cover story, we found most of them solidly in the “buy new” category. “We really haven’t changed our strategy,” says Bradford Clubb, president of Flyway Excavating, Lititz, Pennsylvania, with $6.5 million in annual revenues. “Despite […]
January 10, 2012
Maintenance
Trucks
Technician training What small contractors can learn from big fleets By Marcia Gruver Doyle and Jack Roberts It’s easy to think that large truck fleets like Walmart and FedEx have the all the resources you don’t have to properly train their technicians, but in many cases they also have the right mindset. Much of this […]
February 3, 2011
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