Better Roads editors step up and choose their “best of the best”

Buoyed by CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011, this year brought with it a wide, innovative range of new equipment and products for the road construction and maintenance sectors. Many of these keen new introductions marched across the pages of Better Roads and www.betterroads.com . . . and rolled right into the marketplace where they will undoubtedly serve both serve contractors and agencies exceptionally well as they embrace the opportunities to come.

Upon reflection of the year that was, of the hundreds of product introductions editors reviewed and processed for our monthly New Road Products section, these are the 20 that most caught our collective eye for their industry significance, their ingenuity, their filling of a market need and/or their just plain ol’ coolness. Keeping the list to 20 is difficult. It means, for instance, not choosing some tremendous new products that are exciting and important to the construction industry.

We, the editors of Better Roads, set ourselves the goal of determining our Top 20 only; and to reach it we had to do a lot of talking, negotiating and decision-making. We had to examine and then re-examine our reasoning and our selections. Believe me, this was one intense job.

Today we proudly toast these products and the deserving companies that create, design, manufacture and market them. Moving forward, we’d like to know how you have been, are or will be able to use any of these “best of the best”. Any and all comments are not only welcome, but encouraged. Please drop us an e-mail over the coming year at mike.anderson@randallreilly.com or give us a shout at (205) 248-1310.

Arctic Snow and Ice

HD Sectional Sno-Pushers

Bergkamp

Mobile Stockpile Trailer

Case

DV207, DV210, DV213 Double-Drum Compactors

Caterpillar

CT660 On-Highway Truck

Caterpillar