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Hammer-Crowbar Tool Seeks Boost From Kickstarter 05/15/13 Father-son team from Indiana develops 7-in-1 tool, after decade of prototyping. Photo Courtesy of Cole-Bar |
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Caterpillar Abandons TBM Marketplace 05/15/13 Concluding that "the business no longer represents a strategic growth opportunity," Caterpillar Inc. says it will shut down its tunnel-boring-machine business by mid-2014. Photo courtesy Caterpillar Inc. |
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| 05/15/13 | Lend Lease Explains How Crews Replaced a Crane at 1,100 Feet Attaching a luffing boom at Manhattan's One57 high-rise required careful planning and execution. |
| 05/03/13 | Hyundai Opens First Machinery Plant Outside Asia The South Korean company is investing $175 million in a Brazil factory as anti-dumping duties discourage imports. |
| 05/02/13 | New Ergonomic Jobsite Tools Enhance Safety, Boost Productivity The most popular, best-selling items often address the problem of repetitive-stress injuries. |
| 05/01/13 | Kennecott Assessing Damage After Massive Slide at Utah Copper Mine World's largest copper pit put out of commission by 165-million-ton landslide that buried equipment. |
| 04/26/13 | For Excavators, Hydraulic Is the New Hybrid Excavator engineers are finding that hybrid-electric systems come with a longer payback than hydraulics. |
| 04/24/13 | Bauma 2013 Equipment Expo Attracts Record Visitors European markets remained depressed but global demand for iron picked up as a huge Munich expo opened its doors in April. |
| 04/23/13 | Mini Crane Flies High To Repair Damaged Jib Over Manhattan A pint-sized machine crews are using to replace New York’s dangling crane proves that bigger is not always better. |
| 04/23/13 | Bigge Crane Pulls Weight at BART Extension Big lifts are par for the course during overnight freeway closures to construct the Oakand Airport Connector |
| 04/18/13 | Genie SX-180 Superboom Travels Without Permits The SX-180 uses a patented chassis that allows it to ride on a lowboy trailer without needing special road permits. |
| 04/17/13 | Caterpillar's New Hybrid Excavator Offers Savings at a Small Price At first glance, Caterpillar’s 336EH hybrid excavator could be mistaken for the non-hybrid 336E model. |
| 04/15/13 | Liugong-Cummins Engine Plant Fires Up in China The joint venture will supply Liugong with the parts and support it needs to reach world markets. |
| 04/15/13 | JCB Sets Record Earnings, Announces Clean-Diesel Prices JCB's sales and profits grew as the industry sold 10% fewer machines, mainly because of slowdowns in China. |
| 04/15/13 | Innovation Awards Kick Off Bauma 2013 Trade Show The awards honor innovations in construction technology and mark the beginning of the triennial Bauma trade show. |
| 04/12/13 | Large Antique Tractor Sale Hauls in More Than $800,000 Popular items include one of Caterpillar’s first diesel and last gasoline crawler tractors. |
| 04/10/13 | Excavator Sales Show Signs of Recovery in China Sales of excavators in China rebounded in March after a steep decline at the beginning of the year. |
| 04/09/13 | Caterpillar Rolls Out Hybrid Excavator as Layoffs Hit Mining Division Caterpillar is hoping construction customers will appreciate the long-term savings in its new hybrid excavator. |
| 04/09/13 | Manitowoc 31000 Supercrane Mobilizes in Korea After sitting idle through the downturn, Manitowoc's new super crane is lifting vessels for a coal-to-gas project. |
| 04/09/13 | Nearly 100 Antique Tractors To Cross Auction Block The storehouse of nearly 100 pieces of vintage machinery also includes parts and other heavy equipment from construction's past. |
| 03/26/13 | Which Top Brands Are Selling at Auction? Caterpillar is the big market leader, but Deere gains ground in the skid-steer category. |
| 03/26/13 | Volvo Opens $100-Million Factory Expansion The year’s outlook for construction machinery is essentially flat, but manufacturers are adding local capacity in an effort to grow globally. |
| 03/19/13 | European Vans Invade Work Truck Show The days of the squat, gas-guzzling American contractor van are numbered. |
| 03/19/13 | Echo Unveils Plug-In Hybrid Kit for Older Vans The low-priced retrofit can turn a van that gets just 13 mpg into one that gets 20 mpg. |
| 03/12/13 | Are Equipment Rentals Cyclical or Secular? Uncertainty generally has contractors renting more and buying less, but will they continue to do so after the economy rebounds? |
| 03/12/13 | Navistar Names New CEO The transition follows a failed engine-emissions strategy pursued by former Chairman and CEO Dan Ustian, who retired last year. |
| 02/27/13 | Five Trends To Watch At Bauma 2013 Optimism is high as more than 450,000 construction professionals get ready to head to Munich’s massive show this April. |
| 02/27/13 | Construction Week: Online Sales Soar at Ritchie Bros. Auction; BIM Best-Practices Guide Coming Gavel pounds for Internet bidders at annual Florida equipment sale and the American Institute of Steel Construction is developing a best practices guide for BIM. |
| 02/20/13 | IronPlanet Wins Auction Lawsuit Against Ritchie Bros. Ritchie Bros. offered tempting sale guarantees, the jury found, awarding IronPlanet nearly $3 million in damages. |
| 01/29/13 | Equipment Dealers Jump Into the Auction Market The do-it-yourself auction strategy can both maintain valued customers and groom future buyers. |
| 01/23/13 | Ford Atlas Concept Marries Brains and Brawn Named for the Greek god who holds up the Earth, Atlas takes trucks further into the digital age with handy telematics tools. |
| 01/23/13 | Ford Transit Ushers In New Era for Work Vans With new European contractor vans on the market, the old Econoline’s glory days are fading. |
| 01/14/13 | Ten Minutes With Michael Kneeland, CEO of United Rentals We catch up with Kneeland on the sidelines of United's annual management meeting. |
| 01/08/13 | GM Pickups for 2014 Get New Looks, Engines New engines, mechanical upgrades and telematics capabilities may appeal to construction professionals. |
| 01/03/13 | Ammann To Acquire Big Stake in India Roadbuilding Sector Investment would propel firm's global expansion and boost Asian nation's industry growth. |
| 12/18/12 | Dangling Crane Was Act of God, Engineers Say A partial crane collapse in Midtown Manhattan was among the top equipment headlines in 2012. |
| 12/10/12 | Soilmec Hydromill Shatters Slurry-Wall Records An Italian contractor hopes to grab a bigger share of the market in repairing leaking dam foundations. |
| 12/10/12 | Chinese Machinery Exports Grow 20% in 2012 In 2012, the Chinese equipment market faced a decline in domestic demand but an increase in exports. |
| 12/05/12 | In India, Small Backhoes Mean Big Business JCB has grabbed more than 70% of the backhoe-loader market in India, but new competition is moving in. |
| 11/28/12 | Concrete Drill Jig Makes Work Less Painful The universal jig is ideal for dowel and rod work and drilling large-diameter holes for anchor placement in rock and concrete. |
| 11/28/12 | Tier-4 Engine Challenges Bring New Opportunities The diesel’s transition from mechanical to electronic operation bears some resemblance to the emission and fuel regulations that began crippling gasoline engines in the 1970s. |
| 11/21/12 | Equipment Forecast 2013: Rental Fleet Purchases May Contribute to 'Modest' Gains Contractors will likely continue to turn to rental and leasing companies to support their projects rather than laying out capital for new equipment. |
| 11/06/12 | With NYC Tower Crane Secure, Plan Shifts To Recovery Engineers are now designing a method for taking the crane down and replacing it, but the effort will cost time and money. |
| 11/05/12 | NYC Crane Rescue Is Complete Securing the dangling tower crane's jib in Midtown Manhattan will take about 36 hours, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says. |
| 10/29/12 | Hurricane Sandy-Ravaged NYC Tower Crane Could Fall Wind-blown tower crane is at risk of falling 1,000 feet into New York City's streets. |
| 10/22/12 | Giant Water Cannon Shows Dust Who Is Boss A new machine may soon make dust control less of a drain on resources. |
| 10/18/12 | Medium-Duty Truck Owners Struggle With Downtime Engine and fuel problems have decreased, but the time it takes to fix them has gone up. |
| 10/17/12 | Auburn Students Work With Industry to Design Tomorrow's Tools A tool-design program at Auburn University's Center for Construction Innovation and Collaboration allows students to work closely with construction firms and tool makers. |
| 10/17/12 | Are Clean-Diesel Engine Rules Stifling Innovation? Equipment users will see few benefits from Tier-4 machines, some experts say. |
| 10/17/12 | Caterpillar's Hybrid Excavator Pays Back in One Year A unique hydraulic-hybrid drive increases fuel efficiency by up to 50%. |
| 10/03/12 | At MINExpo, Iron Is Hot Despite Cooling Commodities Tentative optimism filled the exhibit halls at this year's MINExpo. |
| 09/25/12 | The World's Biggest Supercranes In the world of supercranes, heavy duty is measured in thousands of tons, not hundreds. |
| 09/19/12 | Telematics Help Trim Contractor Fleet Costs Equipment fitted with smart connectivity reduces paperwork, eliminates waste and improves maintenance schedules. |
| 09/17/12 | Test Drive: Life On the Road With Natural Gas ENR drove a CNG pickup for a week and didn’t get stranded. |
| 09/06/12 | Meet Ford Transit, Heir to the Econoline Throne The new work van will provide at least 25% better fuel economy than the aging E-Series lineup, Ford says. |
| 08/24/12 | 2013 Ram Pickup Raises Fuel-Economy Bar Chrysler’s truck division is targeting up to 25 miles per gallon in the 2013 Ram. |
| 08/20/12 | Ford Offers Gas When Diesel Is Too Much When diesel is not mission-critical to the job, gasoline makes a heck of a lot of sense, contractors say. |
| 08/08/12 | Navistar Makes U-Turn on Diesel Engines, Arrives at Cummins Navistar’s insistence on using problematic clean-diesel technology licensed from EPA has hit a dead end. |
| 07/23/12 | Contractors Are Renting Rather Than Buying More Equipment During Slow Recovery Equipment rentals allow contractors to shift downtime risk while trimming expenses. |
| 07/18/12 | Panama’s Concrete Challenge Calls for Custom Equipment To meet the canal authority’s tough tolerances, concrete crews wield giant ice machines, conveyors and cranes in a constant fight against Mother Nature. |
| 07/03/12 | Truck Quality Suffers From Cleaner Diesels U.S. truck brands experience 22% more engine and fuel-related problems than European brands, the study finds. |
| 06/29/12 | For Brazil Equipment Buyers, Support Is King Superior service will make the difference between the success or failure of heavy equipment newcomers in the Brazil. |
| 06/25/12 | Diesel Exhaust Linked To Lung, Bladder Cancer Diesel advocates counter that modern clean diesels have brought emissions to near-zero levels. |
| 06/18/12 | After Rocky Acquisition, Manitou Aims To Best Bobcat Weathering a construction recession and emerging from a rough acquisition, equipment maker Manitou Group looks for a silver lining. |
| 05/28/12 | Volvo Finds Smooth Sailing by Going Offshore The company is capturing market share, after expanding capacity in Russia, China, India and Brazil. |
| 05/14/12 | Merger Complete, Will United and RSC Get A New Name? United Rentals Inc. finalized its $4.2 billion in cash-and-stock purchase of RSC Holdings Inc. on April 30. |
| 05/14/12 | Test Drive: 2012 Ram Tradesman 1500 Ram’s basic half-ton truck comes with everything needed to go to work. |
| 05/14/12 | What’s New for the 2013 Ram Engineers got carried away by packing the truck with features never seen before on a light-duty pickup. |
| 05/07/12 | Putzmeister, Schwing Become Chinese-Owned Companies Chinese manufacturers are expanding their presence, especially in Europe, industry analysts say. |
| 05/02/12 | Hybrid Truck Sets Speed Record Volvo has shattered its own record for the world's fastest hybrid truck. |
| 04/30/12 | 5 Reasons NYC Outsources Crane Exams Crane regulation in New York City has had its ups and downs, but the city hopes to make work safer by boosting licensing requirements. |
| 04/20/12 | XCMG Acquires Majority Stake in Schwing China is the world's largest market for truck-mounted concrete pumps, accounting for roughly 4,000 of 6,000 machines produced worldwide. |
| 04/09/12 | Why Contractors Are Renting More and Buying Less Equipment rentals have flourished as a means of lowering overhead expenses by trimming debt, licensing fees, taxes, insurance and maintenance. |
| 03/26/12 | Carbon Regulations Drive New Diesel Engine Lubricant Standards Diesel engine oils may play a role in meeting tomorrow’s emission and fuel economy standards. |
| 03/12/12 | DOE's Chu: Natural Gas Is a 'No-Brainer' Natural gas is "no longer a debate" for fueling commercial vehicle fleets, says U.S. Dept. of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. |
| 03/12/12 | Machinery Exports Bolster U.S. Economy While U.S. construction starts slipped slightly last year, machinery exports grew by double-digit percentage points. |
| 03/12/12 | Ram Trucks To Make Major Announcement At N.Y. Auto Show As Ram grows its lineup of work trucks, sources say even more options will be unveiled later this year. |
| 03/12/12 | A Turbo Twist Comes To Ford's Commercial Van It will soon be curtains for Ford's E-Series work van, but its replacement will come packed with a fuel-sipping EcoBoost engine. |
| 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. |
| 01/30/12 | Concrete Mixer Truck Saves Money With Natural Gas 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. |
| 01/29/12 | Putzmeister, Sany Merger Would Create Concrete Juggernaut The deal is believed to be the largest Chinese-German acquisition and aims to create a global powerhouse for concrete pumps. |
| 01/25/12 | China's Largest Equipment Manufacturer Said Taking Stake in Schwing 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 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 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 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 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 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 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? 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 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 ?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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Caterpillar has announced a large investment in a new global mining initiative. |
| 08/15/11 | Construction Is Lukewarm on First Fuel-Economy Rules 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Simulators for high-risk construction equipment have reached wide industry acceptance. |
| 07/21/11 | July Is A Hot Month for Equipment Theft 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 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? 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 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 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 Gigantic lift tool is booked in Gulf coast through mid-November. |
| 05/25/11 | Heavy-Duty Playground Opens 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 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 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 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 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
01/21/09 Quick, Careful Operation Lifts ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Plane
01/07/09 GM's Hybrid Silverado Truck Sips Fuel but Lacks Giddyup
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
01/21/09 Quick, Careful Operation Lifts ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Plane
01/07/09 GM's Hybrid Silverado Truck Sips Fuel but Lacks Giddyup
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