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Better Roads Staff - May 13, 2013

In bridges, there’s American old and then there’s old. The Pont Vieux and the Cathedral de Sainte Cecile. You want old? The Pont Vieux (literally “old bridge”) had been in use for 657 years when the oldest surviving roadway bridge in America, ...

France blasts U.S. CEO: We do too work and you’re nuts.

John Latta - Feb 21, 2013

Oh yeah, it's on. France has fired back at what their social media are calling "le French bashing" by a salty American business leader. A cabinet minister and a factory union leader lead le charge, the former calling US's Titan Tire ...

French workers don’t work: U.S. CEO to French Minister

John Latta - Feb 20, 2013

Scare bleu! Maurice Taylor, CEO of US tire maker Titan, writing to France's Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, after the minister asked Titan to buy a Goodyear tire factory in Northern France that is about to shut down: "I have visited that factory a ...

Volvo CE recognized in Intermat 2012 Innovation Awards

Amanda Bayhi - Jan 18, 2012

Judges recognized Volvo Construction Equipment as a winner of the Intermat 2012 Innovation Awards in Paris on January 13 for the company’s On Board Weighing System, designed for its F-Series haulers. The judges of the Intermat 2012 Innovation Awards, which aimed ...