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Asphalt Pavement Alliance releases Pavement Type Selection position paper
The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) has released a new position paper, Pavement Type Selection. This document, created by the APA’s Economics Team, sets out principles that state DOTs and other agencies can use in choosing whether to use asphalt or concrete pavement for a particular roadway. It discusses the Design Guides published by the American […]
August 25, 2010
Safety
FHWA: State DOTs must ID programs to cut
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sent state transportation departments a notice on Aug. 13 instructing the departments to identify no later than Wednesday, Aug. 25, which federal highway programs they will cut as a result of a $2.2 billion rescission enacted by Congress this month, according to a report in the AASHTO Journal. President Barack […]
August 23, 2010
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Caterpillar CEO presents company’s five-year goals
Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman reviewed the company’s updated five-year strategy and goals with analysts and investors at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. He expressed confidence during his presentation about Caterpillar’s growth opportunities throughout the world and the company’s strategic focus on operational execution. He highlighted a series of recent investments, totaling more than $2.5 […]
August 19, 2010
Business
Caterpillar CEO presents company’s five-year goals
Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman reviewed the company’s updated five-year strategy and goals with analysts and investors at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. He expressed confidence during his presentation about Caterpillar’s growth opportunities throughout the world and the company’s strategic focus on operational execution. He highlighted a series of recent investments, totaling more than $2.5 […]
August 19, 2010
Safety
New Jersey DOT begins Route 3 Passaic River bridge replacement project
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has started the Route 3 Passaic River bridge replacement project that the agency has been designed to improve safety and reduce congestion along a heavily traveled corridor. The project will replace the structurally deficient moveable bridge with a new fixed span over the Passaic River, connecting Clifton City in […]
August 18, 2010
Safety
AED, AEM launches House, Senate investment campaign
The Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) are launching an effort to get U.S. House and Senate candidates from across the country to commit to making surface transportation and water infrastructure investment a top priority in the next Congress. The Infrastructure Campaign Pledge is part of the Start Us Up […]
August 13, 2010
Safety
FHWA breaks ground on State Highway 550 project
Federal Highway Deputy Administrator (FHWA) Greg Nadeau joined state, local and other federal officials on Aug. 5 to break ground on the State Highway 550 project in Brownsville, Texas, that includes the construction of a new toll road using $34 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars. “In addition to strengthening the economy and […]
August 11, 2010
Business
Missouri DOT officially opens first U.S. stimulus project
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) will officially open the first U.S. economic recovery act project – the Osage River Bridge at Tuscumbia, Mo. – following a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. on Aug. 16. MoDOT Interim Director Kevin Keith will oversee the event. Once officials cut the ceremonial ribbon, a parade of vehicles featuring […]
August 10, 2010
Safety
Peterson Manufacturing promotes product manager
Peterson Manufacturing Company promoted Kristen Goodson from product manager to director of product management. Goodson, who lives in Raymore, Missouri, joined the company as a customer service representative after graduating from the University of Kansas in 1995. She has worked in or with every department in the company during her 15 years, advancing through sales […]
August 9, 2010
Safety
Bipartisan Senate bill ups interstate weight limit options
The Coalition for Transportation Productivity (CTP), a group of more than 160 shippers and allied associations dedicated to responsibly increasing federal weight limits on interstate highways, has applauded Sens. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) for introducing the Safe and Efficient Transportation Act, S. 3705, in the U.S. Senate. To read […]
August 5, 2010
Safety
OSHA publishes final rule on construction cranes
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Wednesday issued a new rule on the use of cranes and derricks in construction. The rule replaces a previous version which had been in effect since 1971, and updates safety, methods and practices, and incorporates technological advances to improve protection for operators. The rule also addresses crane […]
August 4, 2010
Safety
Are you smarter than the highway?
In Washington state, highways are getting smarter. Crews will install a series of electronic speed-limit and lane status signs over each northbound lane on Washington state’s I-5 between Boeing Access Road and I-90 in Seattle. [For WSDOT’s photostream on Flickr, please click here.] The high-tech signs are set to be activated on Aug. 10 to […]
August 4, 2010
Safety
Product Focus
Gen sets and light towers By Amy Materson CLEVER KIT Provide lighting for a range of applications with Baldor’s towable light tower kit, available for the TS35T towable generator. • Kit has 30-foot telescoping light mast • Assembles in about two hours with no drilling • Plugs into 120-volt, 50-amp twistlock outlet on the generator’s […]
August 1, 2010
Safety
Marketplace
By Amy Materson  POWER AND PERFORMANCE Kubota has entered the compact track loader market with two models: the 75-horsepower SVL75, which has a 6,204-pound bucket breakout force and 4,881-pound lifting capacity, and the 90-horsepower SVL90, which delivers 7,961 pounds of breakout force and offers a lifting capacity of 5,869 pounds. Powered by a four-cylinder […]
August 1, 2010
Safety
Safety Watch
Up in the air Construction falls are all too common – and all too deadly. The accident: A construction crew was removing screws from metal sheets on the roof of a building scheduled to be dismantled. A portion of the roof gave way, causing a worker standing on that section to fall through to ground […]
July 31, 2010
Safety
Maintenance
Dirty little secrets Contamination in today’s equipment can cost you big bucks – and the danger is hiding in plain sight. By Tom Jackson Here’s a quiz for all you mechanics, technicians and fleet managers. Say you had two identical pieces of equipment working in two identical applications and environments. Machine A had no air […]
July 31, 2010
Safety
NMHG plant honored with safety awards
NACCO Materials Handling Group’s Greenville, North Carolina, facility was honored with two safety awards from the North Carolina Department of Labor. For the sixth year in a row, the plant received the Gold Safety Award and the Million Hour Award. The Gold Safety Award honors companies with no on-site fatalities in the calendar year and […]
July 28, 2010
Safety
Chicago area procures $100 million in TIGER grants
The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Illinois Department of Transportation finalized a $100 grant agreement for the CREATE (Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency) program to begin work on those projects to help reduce rail bottlenecks in the Chicago region, according to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). In February, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced […]
July 28, 2010
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