Quality Control is Everything

Better Roads Staff - Mar 21, 2012

Every aggregate operator spends time and money sampling, sizing, and checking aggregate to make sure it meets requirements. Here are products that can help operators achieve that goal. Endecotts Ltd. Digital sieve shaker Endecotts says its D450 digital sieve shaker is fitted with ...

Holt Cat hosting groundbreaking for Laredo facility relocation

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 21, 2012

Holt Cat, the Caterpillar equipment and engine dealer for South, Central, North, and North East Texas, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Laredo location at 101 South Aviators Road, Laredo, Texas on Tuesday, March 20. Holt Cat purchased ...

Equipment Innovation: Customers, manufacturers chime in on leveraging customer feedback to upgrade equipment

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 21, 2012

Deere, Case, Terex, and Bobcat customers and product experts talk about the process and how they influenced current and future equipment. To read this digital exclusive section on customer feedback and the process these construction equipment manufacturers use for input, go ...

FMI predicts 5 percent 2012 construction growth

Equipment World Staff - Mar 21, 2012

Construction consultant FMI's first-quarter 2012 Construction Outlook Report shows a 5 percent increase over 2011 for total construction put in place, or $826.3 billion. According to the report, in order for residential construction to achieve the 8 percent increase projected and ...

Home builder confidence index remains flat

Equipment World Staff - Mar 21, 2012

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes was unchanged in March from a revised level of 28 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released today. This means that following five consecutive ...

Cat releases 2011 Year in Review and Sustainability reports

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 21, 2012

Caterpillar has made its 2011 Year In Review Report and Sustainability Report available online. The interactive online reports provide an overview of the successes of the past year and what Cat says is its "commitment to sustainability." The Year In Review ...

Steel shipments up 5.1 percent

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 21, 2012

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported on March 19 that for the month of January 2012, U.S. steel mills shipped 8,497,932 net tons, a 5.1-percent increase from the 8,085,761 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2011, ...

New division may save Ohio DOT nearly $200 million annually

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 21, 2012

By reducing agency costs, commercializing non-interstate rest areas and seeking sponsorship and naming rights for certain infrastructure projects, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) says it could save nearly $200 million annually and billions more could be generated or saved ...

New division may save Ohio DOT nearly $200 million annually

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Mar 20, 2012

By reducing agency costs, commercializing non-interstate rest areas and seeking sponsorship and naming rights for certain infrastructure projects, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) says it could save nearly $200 million annually and billions more could be generated or saved ...

Lattatudes

Better Roads Staff - Feb 17, 2012

Bust Up Their Floating Crap Game Let’s be ruthless about this. By John Latta Politicians and wannabe politicians are at their most vulnerable during election season. Let’s take advantage of that. Polls and the goings on in Washington with the reauthorization of a ...

AN OCCASIONAL SERIES: ONE 2 ONE WITH SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING PEOPLE IN THE BUSINESS

Better Roads Staff - Feb 17, 2012

Congressman Richard Hanna (R-NY) talks to Editor-in-Chief John Latta Richard Hanna was elected in November 2010 to represent the 24th District of (upstate) New York. At 20, he became the primary supporter of his mother and four sisters after his father ...

Mica’s Move is Made: Now let’s keep moving

John Latta - Feb 01, 2012

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and Members of the committee unveiled the American Energy an Infrastructure Jobs Act yesterday. I would like to think contractors, subs, agencies,equipment dealerships and OEMs are excited and getting ready to move quickly ...