More from Brooke Wisdom
Better Bridges
The Bridge as Bat Cave
A sharp decline in bat numbers prompts Oregon’s Department of Transporation to build habitats into bridges.
By Tina Grady Barbaccia
Build a bridge, save a bat.
That’s what the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has done as part of ... Read More...
RoadWorks
By John Latta, Tina Grady Barbaccia and Mike Anderson
Easy as 1-2-3
A new report claims, not surprisingly, that the disrepair of our highway infrastructure is a result of insufficient maintenance, and this deficit “is in part due to a prioritization of ... Read More...
New Road Products
New Power Equipment, Materials, and Supplies for the Road Market
By Tina Grady Barbaccia
Introductions for the World of Concrete
Bobcat
Extendable arm reaches 30 more inches
Bobcat’s new extendable arm option for its M-Series E32 and E35 compact excavators provides an additional 30 inches ... Read More...
Highway Contractor
Weighing the Options
‘Back to gravel’ doesn’t have to be the only choice for a failing road … even if funds are scarce.
By Mike Anderson
Ken Skorseth isn’t down on asphalt; he’s up on options for cash-strapped agencies facing expiring or deteriorating ... Read More...
RoadScience
Research that could change the Way We Work
Some top picks from Transportation Research Board’s papers presented at its 90th annual meeting in D.C.
By Tom Kuennen, Contributing Editor
It is always a meeting filled with new ideas and stunning research breakthroughs in ... Read More...
Lattatudes
Viva Las Vegas
By John Latta
Oscar Levant once said that behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. So it is with Las Vegas, although in Sin City the attempt to pretend there’s substance beneath the facade is a ... Read More...
Applications and Innovations
It’s a Natural Gas
Diesel alternatives making headway in the work truck world.
By Jack Roberts
Several years ago, the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show aligned itself with the newly born Green Truck movement. This partnership, that seemed so unlikely ... Read More...
Bid List
MOTOR GRADERS
115-169 horsepower
LEEBOY
785
• 130 net horsepower
• 25,300 pounds operating weight
• 12 feet moldboard length
• 21/14 mph max forward/ reverse speed
CATERPILLAR
120M
• 138-173 net horsepower
• 31,069 pounds operating weight
• 12 feet moldboard length
• 27.7/23.5 mph max forward/reverse speed
CASE
845DHP
• 140-160 net horsepower
• 29,777 ... Read More...
Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus
High-speed Rail and Us
By Kirk Landers, kirk.landers@att.net
An industry pundit recently took the Obama Administration to task for not allowing the state of Wisconsin to use its grant for high-speed rail development to improve the state’s roads.
Wisconsin was one of several ... Read More...
One II One
A NEW SERIES: ONE II ONE WITH SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN THE BUSINESS
Dr. Don Brock
talks to John Latta, Editor-In-Chief
Dr. Brock, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech where he once taught thermodynamics, is chairman of the ... Read More...
Financial District
HOT not HOV
Tweaking old-fashioned busy lanes could smooth flow
By John Latta
Congestion on busy roads is not going anywhere; we’ll have it for a long time to come. But one measure used to combat it (and also fight back against high ... Read More...
Bid List
Rollers/Compactors
By Tina Grady Barbaccia
Smooth-Drum Vibratory Compactors 11.3 metrics tons and above
DYNAPAC CC524 HF
• 11.6 metric tons operating weight
• 77 inch drum width
• 152 gross horsepower
• 35,325 pounds maximum centrifugal force
BOMAG BW278AD-4
• 11.7 metric tons operating weight
• 78 inch drum width
• ... Read More...
