More from Tom Jackson

Tom Jackson is the executive editor of Equipment World magazine and has been writing about construction and related fields for 26 years. A 1979 graduate from the University of Alabama, Jackson is also a U.S. Army veteran and a father of two.

GM debuts bi-fuel trucks

Nov 09, 2012

Seamless switching from gas to CNG. The order books are open and they're coming down the assembly lines as we speak: the 2013 Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra 2500 HD bi-fuel pickup trucks. The Vortec 6.0L engines in these trucks ...

Natural gas saves the day after hurricane Sandy

Nov 06, 2012

The New York Times reports today that residents and businesses of that city that use natural gas for heating, cooking or electrical power generation are up and running, while many who rely on electrical power are still in the dark. This is ...

Bridges are singing in the rain

Oct 25, 2012

Scientists at Brigham Young University have discovered a way to measure defects in bridges by listening to the sounds they make when impacted by drops of water. Echo location is the basic principle at work here, a technique used for all ...

Educating employees in a construction environment

Oct 25, 2012

Learn at lunch. In today's construction environment, you can train employees in-house, or just give up and pretend you don't need to train at all. Trouble is, those companies that don't train run the risk of falling behind those that ...

A tire that maintains its own pressure

Oct 16, 2012

Nothing so ruins a day as having a flat on a truck carrying 60,000 pounds of anything. Goodyear has taken a big leap forward in developing a solution to this problem with its self-inflating technology for commercial tires. Unveiled at a German ...

Pay for mining school grads beats Harvard

Oct 01, 2012

Big pay, less prestige. Who makes more money after graduating from college? Students from Harvard, or graduates of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology? The 259 students that graduated from that little mining technology program in flyover country recieved an ...

Mike Rowe sends Obama, Romney a letter

Sep 20, 2012

Mike Rowe, blue collar champion. And guess who responds? The host of TVs Dirty Works show Mike Rowe sent President Obama a letter four years ago about the shortage of skilled labor and the importance of manual labor in the United ...

Mike Rowe sends Obama, Romney a letter

Sep 17, 2012

Questions on what the EPA funds and why

Aug 30, 2012

You frequently hear people in the media complain about the big oil companies funding anti-global warming studies and think tanks. This they do, but you can hardly fault them for promoting their own interests. What is less well known is how ...

Deere’s quarterly report

Aug 21, 2012

How can a company do so well and yet face so much pessimism in the stock market? Deere released its third quarter results boasting of an 11-percent increase in earnings on higher sales, a 15-percent jump in worldwide sales (to $9.59 ...

Earnings report: Cummins, sweet dividend, flat market

Jul 12, 2012

Cummins ISX12 disel engine. July brings a whole slew of quarterly earnings reports from the major equipment and engine manufacturers. First out of the chute is Cummins, which seasoned investors with a sweet 25 percent increase in its dividend, before ...

Diesel aftertreatment works suprisingly well

Jul 12, 2012

Never clean enough. Emissions aftertreatment systems in heavy diesel trucks and equipment may be one of the most expensive regulatory demands in the history of government, but new research indicates that they are having the intended effect. According to tests done ...

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