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Concrete Mixer Truck Saves Money With Natural Gas
01/30/12 By Tudor Van Hampton in Chicago
As a transportation fuel, natural gas has a lot to offer. It is cheap, abundant and clean. The downsides? Lack of available pumps, less power and a higher up-front cost for the vehicle. These are hard to overlook, but fleets are doing just that in an effort to cut their fueling costs.

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Putzmeister, Sany Merger Would Create Concrete Juggernaut
01/29/12 By Tudor Van Hampton
The deal is believed to be the largest Chinese-German acquisition and aims to create a global powerhouse for concrete pumps.

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02/27/12	Products Snapshot: Tier 4i Wheel Loaders and a Cordless Framing Nailer This week we look at Cat wheel loaders with Tier 4 Interim engines and a multi-voltage battery charge from Milwaukee.
01/25/12	China's Largest Equipment Manufacturer Said Taking Stake in Schwing By Tudor Van Hampton in Las Vegas Chinese manufacturer XCMG has taken out a stake in Germany-based Schwing, industry analysts have told ENR.
01/09/12	How Ahern Rentals Landed in Bankruptcy By Tony Illia in Las Vegas Ahern is the country’s largest privately held construction equipment rental company and the seventh largest overall.
01/03/12	After Mishap Caught on Video, Stadium Roof Demolition Moves Forward By Tim Newcomb Following a sudden shock-loading of a crane that caused no injuries, the demolition of Seattle's Husky Stadium is moving ahead.
01/01/12	YouTube Video Captures Crane Near Miss By Tim Newcomb YouTube video clearly shows a crane being shock-loaded during demolition of the stadium's roof.
12/19/11	Metso Doubles Money in Terex Patent Case By Tudor Van Hampton The stakes are rising for Terex Corp. as it soldiers on to defend an important patent-infringement case relating to its line of Powerscreen-brand equipment.
12/16/11	United Rentals To Buy RSC for $1.9 Billion By Tudor Van Hampton The two largest American rental companies are merging.
12/12/11	Products Snapshot: Weigh-Based Concrete Mixer and Tier 4i Generator This week we look at the latest in construction products, including a non-volumetric concrete mixer and a Tier 4 Interim portable generator.
11/14/11	Cummins Introduces New Haul-Truck Engine With 95 Liters and 4,000 Horses of Diesel Grunt By Tudor Van Hampton Cummins announces plans to build a new 4,000-horsepower diesel in Seymour, Ind., by 2015.
11/14/11	Equipment Forecast 2012: Dealers Are Buying Machines, But Will Anyone Need Them? By Tudor Van Hampton While fleet managers are replacing aging machines, the rate of purchases is slowing down. This dip is mainly due to a lack of confidence in construction starts, which are expected to remain flat next year.
11/14/11	NIOSH Lends Helping Hand to Nail-Gun Users By Jim Parsons Nail-guns are dangerous: every year, 37,000 people are involved in accidents with the tool.
11/07/11	Weekly Products Snapshot: Solar Panel Pile Driver, Articulated Dump Truck, Air-Pressure Sensor Weekly Products Snapshot looks at the latest in construction products.
10/31/11	California Offers Money To Buy Hybrid Machines By Tudor Van Hampton ?If you have been thinking of trying out a hybrid construction machine, now is the time to take advantage of nearly $1 million in incentives in California.
10/31/11	California Offers Money To Buy Hybrid Machines By Tudor Van Hampton If you have been thinking of trying out a hybrid construction machine, now is the time to take advantage of nearly $1 million in incentives in California.
10/31/11	Handheld Tester Makes It Easy To Check and Fix Fluorescent Lighting Fixtures By Tudor Van Hampton You might want to hand this nifty gadget to the electrician who walks around the office all day with a cart full of bulbs.
10/17/11	CARB Studies Hybrid Equipment Emissions By Tudor Van Hampton The two-year project aims to analyze the emissions profiles of hybrid machinery and develop incentive programs for contractors to use them.
10/14/11	Herrenknecht TBM Gets Ready To Drill Under Lake Mead By Tony Illia in Boulder City, Nev. The TBM will carve out a 3-mile-long, 20-ft-dia reinforced tunnel under Lake Mead that draws water at 860 feet.
10/10/11	Caterpillar's First Work Truck Takes Ergonomics to Task By Tudor Van Hampton in Edwards, Ill. Traditional truckers may lament that their rigs feel more and more like cars, but Caterpillar’s CT660 makes no apologies about the comfort.
09/28/11	Caterpillar Targets Top of Work-Truck Segment By Tudor Van Hampton in Edwards, Ill. With its new CT660 work truck, Cat says it plans to unseat traditional vocational truck manufacturers, such as Kenworth and Mack.
09/23/11	Hot-Rod Trencher Still Draws the Crowds By Tudor Van Hampton The Super Witch was created more than 30 years ago as a rogue marketing project for The Charles Machine Works, the parent company of Ditch Witch.
09/14/11	Massive Kroll Tower Crane Supports Seattle Tunnel Job By Tim Newcomb Krøll is known for making the heftiest tower cranes in the world, but its rigs are rarely seen in the wild.
09/12/11	Chinese Heavy Equipment Digs In Globally By Tudor Van Hampton and Tony Illia Chinese manufacturers are on track this year to become the second-largest global exporters of construction equipment, but it will take some time for them to pose a threat to established suppliers.
08/29/11	Caterpillar Lauches $5B Global Mining Plan After Bucyrus Deal By Jeff Rubenstone Caterpillar has announced a large investment in a new global mining initiative.
08/15/11	Construction Is Lukewarm on First Fuel-Economy Rules By Pam Radtke Russell New fuel-economy rules coming to heavy-duty trucks are good for business but will take a toll on the highway trust fund.
08/15/11	Caterpillar, EPA Clear the Air Over Diesel Engine Recall By Tudor Van Hampton Caterpillar engine recall involves hundreds of engines, not hundreds of thousands as early reports indicated.
08/09/11	First Fuel-Economy Standards Hit Construction Trucks By Pam Radtke Russell The federal government's new standard will improve fuel economy and cut the carbon emissions of heavy trucks by about 20% through 2018.
08/09/11	Domestic Fleet Replacement Boosts Heavy Equipment Sales By Tony Illia Domestic rental companies and contractors are fleeting up again with heavy equipment, but the overall health of the market is still uncertain.
08/08/11	Strong Demand From China Boosts Heavy Equipment Sales By Tony Illia Infrastructure and mining activity in Asia and Latin America helped, while North America rental companies and contractors replaced aging and obsolete fleets.
08/01/11	The Flip Side of Fuel Economy: Less Cash for Road Construction By Tudor Van Hampton President Obama's proposal to boost automakers' Corporate Average Fuel Economy to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 will take a significant bite out of fuel-tax receipts flowing into the Highway Trust Fund.
07/29/11	Caterpillar Settlement Touches Dozens of Heavy Equipment Brands By Tudor Van Hampton Find out if your machines are included in Cat's ongoing diesel engine recall.
07/28/11	Caterpillar To Recall Engines, Pay $2.5M in EPA Penalties By Tudor Van Hampton Caterpillar Inc. has agreed to recall engines and pay $2.55 million in civil penalties under a Clean Air Act federal consent decree.
07/27/11	Construction Training Simulators Are the Textbooks of the 21st Century By Tudor Van Hampton Simulators for high-risk construction equipment have reached wide industry acceptance.
07/21/11	July Is A Hot Month for Equipment Theft By Tudor Van Hampton It may be a good time to revisit your jobsite security: More heavy equipment is stolen in July than any other month of the year.
07/13/11	Meet Big Stan: Giant Drill Is the Rock Star of the Southwest By Tony Illia The world’s largest truck-mounted drill, Big Stan, is regularly at work busting up rocky soil in Las Vegas.
06/29/11	Which Construction Machines Have the Biggest Blind Spots? By Jim Parsons No equipment operator has X-ray vision, so federal researchers have developed new diagrams that depict the area around a vehicle that an operator cannot see.
06/22/11	How John Deere's New Hybrid Wheel Loaders Get Their Juice By Tudor Van Hampton Deere & Co. is the latest supplier to build diesel-electric construction machines, joining an elite category of construction vehicles that are capitalizing on hybrid know-how.
06/22/11	DeWalt Seeks Fresh Start With 20V Max Lithium-Ion Tools By Jeff Rubenstone Building upon the success of last year’s 12V Max line, DeWalt is making a break from its 15-year-old 18V cordless lineup.
06/22/11	Coastal Lift Specialist Doubles Size of Its Marine Workhorse By Pam Radtke Russell Gigantic lift tool is booked in Gulf coast through mid-November.
05/25/11	Heavy-Duty Playground Opens in Las Vegas By Tony Illia in Las Vegas The newest Las Vegas Strip attraction isn't another mega-resort but a heavy equipment playground that lets visitors operate life-size Tonka toys.
05/02/11	Terex's $1.3B Deal Would Reunite Demag Crane Units By Tudor Van Hampton Terex Corp. wants to bring the Demag brand back together while moving away from the cyclical construction sector.
04/29/11	Caterpillar Sees $300M Hit from Japan Disaster By Tudor Van Hampton Caterpillar Inc. estimates $300 million in sales and $100 million in operating profit will slip away this year, mostly in the second quarter, due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
04/20/11	Robot Loaders and Massive Pumps Head to Japan Plant By Jeffrey Rubenstone Within days of the earthquake and tsunami that severely damaged Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the Japanese government were in talks with equipment manufacturers about how their specialized machines could lend a hand.
04/13/11	Military Truck Now Available To Tackle Extreme Jobsites By Tudor Van Hampton A medium-duty truck that has been riding in the U.S. Army's tactical fleet for more than one decade is now available for commercial use.
04/13/11	Radical ‘Clean Diesel' Truck Engine Approval Expected Soon Navistar International Corp. has submitted test data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its first on-road truck engine to meet federal clean-diesel mandates without using selective-catalytic-reduction technology (SCR).

03/30/11 At CONEXPO, Pent-Up Demand Brings Solid Turnout
03/28/11 Caterpillar CEO: We Want To Stay in Peoria
03/18/11 Japan Crisis Breaks Supply Chain
03/16/11 Down To Earth
03/16/11 Nissan Presents a Practical, Lower-Costing Alternative to the Traditional Contractor Van
03/02/11 Demolition Robots Break New Ground
02/23/11 Trends To Watch at Conexpo
02/09/11 Volvo Consolidates Manufacturing To Position Its Global Product Line for Economic Recovery
02/02/11 Snap-on Employs Imaging Technology To Help High-Risk Asset Managers Track Their Tools
01/19/11 One Crane Outfit Is Reborn, But Another Goes Under
01/12/11 Big-Boom Lift To Tower Over Megashow in Las Vegas
12/27/10 Navistar Goes It Alone In 2011
12/15/10 Heavy-Duty Truckers Say Goodbye to the Stick
12/15/10 Terex To Appeal Patent Verdict
12/01/10 Ford’s New All-Electric Utility Van Delivers Zero Emissions but at Twice the Price
12/01/10 Shanghai Expo Benefits From Global Manufacturing Shift
11/10/10 As Fleets Grow Old and Weary, Purchasing Rebounds
11/17/10 Caterpillar Buys Mining Giant Bucyrus For $8.6 Billion
11/03/10 A Gomaco Slipform Paver Sets Online Auction Record
10/27/10 Out-of-Court Settlement Bars JCB From Naming Asian Machinery Copycat
10/20/10 Sany America Ramps Up New Crane Line, With ex-Manitowoc Engineer Pulling Levers
10/13/10 Air Board, Contractors Agree To Extend Diesel Compliance
10/06/10 Fiat Group Pushes Client-Oriented Engineering As It Prepares To Spin Off Industrial Assets
09/29/10 Test Drive: Can Ford Pass Off Its 2011 V-6-Powered Truck as a V-8?
09/22/10 Ford's F-150 Targets 23 Miles Per Gallon
09/22/10 At Historical Equipment Convention, Old Iron Rides Again, for Fun
09/15/10 California Fleet Ban Goes Up in Smoke
09/15/10 Silica Is Part of a Milling Crew’s Daily Grind, But Asphalt Group May Soon Reduce the Risk
09/08/10 General Motors Outguns, But Ford Takes Top Construction Pickup in Heavy-Duty Shoot-Out
09/08/10 Deere Sells Its Wind-Energy Business for $900 Million
08/25/10 Caterpillar Shifts Its Engines Into Overdrive After Record Earnings in Second Quarter
08/18/10 An Incentive To Take Asphalt’s Temperature
08/17/10 Caterpillar Shifts Production Into Overdrive
08/17/10 United Rentals, Fluor AMECO Venture Targets Gulf Coast
08/11/10 Milwaukee Tool Breaks From Its Electric Roots To Introduce Non-Powered Hand Tools
07/14/10 Plugging Leaks Only a Small Piece of One Engineer’s Family Legacy
07/07/10 Liebherr Builds Drive-Line Factory in Mexico
06/30/10 GM’s 2011 Heavy Duty Trucks Pack a Powerful Punch
05/26/10 Sandblasters Go Green, Without the Sand
05/05/10 Cloth Hubcaps Help Truckers Reduce Drag, Burn Less Fuel
04/28/10 Despite Downturn, Munich’s Megashow Still Delivers
04/21/10 Feds Study Fuel-Economy Standards for Work Trucks
04/14/10 Next Round of Federal Regulations Has Suppliers Retooling Clean Diesel
04/14/10 Three Ways Manufacturers Will Meet the Tier 4 Standards
04/14/10 Rental Veteran Opens Innovative Parts Store, Where Online Orders Are Clicking Away
04/07/10 'Inverted' Drill Press Cuts Pain, Fatigue in Overhead Drilling
03/24/10 Komatsu's Hybrid Excavator Takes First Stab at U.S. Market
03/24/10 Welding Machines Are Choice Target for Jobsite Thieves
03/17/10 Banging and Shaking Get Beat By 98 Tons of Quiet Persuasion
03/17/10 At This Year’s Work-Truck Show, Vendors Roll Out New Wheels as Fleets Remain Idle
03/10/10 Overhauled by Ford, the ‘Super Duty’ Pickup Pulls Over 10 Tons While Using Less Fuel
02/24/10 Ford Waves Green Flag, While Oshkosh Fights Global Terrorism at Midwest Exhibition
02/24/10 Imported Aerial Lift Will Be Tallest in North America
02/17/10 Drill Covers, Grinding Shrouds and Vacuums Leave Silica in the Dust, Not in Your Lungs
02/17/10 Clean-Air Costs Will Come In Stages, Caterpillar Execs Say
02/03/10 Chicago Hosts Chinese Pump’s Big U.S. Debut
01/27/10 Manufacturers Are More Upbeat About Sales But Don't Expect Full Turnaround Until 2012
01/20/10 Crane Owners Step Up Inspections to Meet Tighter Quality Controls
01/20/10 Rebuild Shop Offers Safe Alternative to Replacement
01/20/10 Idle Crane, Iced Out
12/23/09 Terex Scouts for Deals After Bucyrus Buys Mining Unit
12/22/09 Contractor Takes the Keys To World's First 'Hybrid' Dozer
11/25/09 For the Industry's Makers of Heavy Machinery, The Great Recession Is a Real Depression
11/25/09 Along Came a Spider...
10/28/09 Redesigned Dodge Trucks Deliver Power and Comfort
10/07/09 DeWalt Drives Tradeworkers To Fast-Growing Impact Line
09/30/09 Ford Unveils Latest 'Essential' Work Truck at Texas State Fair
09/30/09 Manitowoc Bets Its $30-Million Supercrane On World’s Nuclear-Power Renaissance
09/23/09 Airport To Squeeze Fuel Costs With Hydraulic Hybrid Pickup
09/16/09 Dodge To Lose Sprinter Van
09/09/09 Traylor Bros. Tackles Tough Projects By Building Up An Iron Army
09/02/09 How Ford's Scorpion Cuts Clatter But Keeps Its Sting
08/05/09 New Diesel Regs Push Prices
07/08/09 Intelligent Compaction Is on a Roll
07/08/09 World's First Hybrid Bulldozer Keeps Up With the Bigger Cats
07/08/09 Dual-Mode GPS Doubles As Vehicle Backup Camera
06/24/09 New Database Will Track Crane Repairs and Inspections
06/24/09 Cat Reveals Pricing of World's First Hybrid Dozer
06/19/09 AmQuip Builds World's First Crane-Tracking Website
06/10/09 Navistar Asks Courts To Review EPA Ruling on Clean Diesel Fluid
06/03/09 Ford's Transit Connect Van Will Find Use In Construction
06/03/09 Crane Professor Pinpoints Key Risks Around Tower Cranes
05/27/09 Monster Machines Doing Heavy Duty in California
05/27/09 Volvo's Fenix Asphalt Paver Concept Is a Vision Of Automated Processes and Sustainability
05/27/09 General Motors Tests Diesel-Like Powerplant To Meet Future Fuel Economy, Carbon Cuts
05/13/09 Virtual Reality Sparks Success In Next Generation of Welders
04/15/09 As Builders Farm Out the Fleet, AMECO Tightens Its Iron Grip
04/01/09 As the Economy Worsens, Machinery Auctions are Swamped
04/01/09 Caterpillar Crawls Into Auction Territory
03/25/09 By Giving Operators Freedom of Choice, Deere Steers Grader Debate Back to Center
03/11/09 Battle of the Vans Rages On As Truck Makers Redefine the Urban Contractor's Rolling Office
03/04/09 California Budget Deal Gives Contractor Fleets More Time To Phase Out Dirty Diesel Machines
03/04/09 Emergence of Fake Cranes Has Manufacturers Blowing the Whistle Again on Chinese Copycats
02/25/09 California Pushes Back Schedule To Clean Up Off-Road Diesels
02/25/09 Nevada Machinery Dealer’s Sustainable Shop Turns Greasy Work into Something Greener
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