The investigation into a worker’s death on a bridge demolition project at the Outer Banks of North Carolina has resulted in a proposed penalty of $23,210 for the contractor....
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Brad Costello
Curry Supply Offers Keystone Service Bodies to Fit Contractors’ Sweet Spot
Curry Supply is introducing a new line of service truck bodies: Keystone and Keystone Pro. The Pro version features a crane body, and both models are built using light-weight,...
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Nimble & Productive: Bobcat’s New L65 and L85 Compact Wheel Loaders
Compact wheel loaders continue to grow in popularity as contractors discover their many attributes: how they can dump higher, travel faster and turn tighter than skid steers and compact...
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Industry Roundup: Yanmar, ASV Add Four Dealers
Yanmar Compact Equipment and its company ASV Holdings have added four new dealers and a total of 15 new locations to its network. Incoming dealers include Mid Country Machinery,...
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Big bucket and counterweight enable Komatsu’s new WA480-8 to fill trucks in just three passes
Engineered as a three-pass match loader for aggregates and other materials, the new Komatsu WA480-8 yard loader can also be used in infrastructure, forestry and non-residential applications where you...
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The Future of Paving? Volvo Unveils Its CX01 Concept Compactor
Asphalt compactors aren’t known as the most difficult machine to operate on the job. Although compactors perform a critical function especially when smoothness specs are at stake, many contractors...
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Fat Truck Slims Down, Adds Pickup Capabilities
There are sites that are easy, and then there are sites that are boggy, muddy, steep, swampy, treacherous or covered in snow and ice. For the former, 4WD and...
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Reduce Errors in the Field with CM Labs, Trimble Earthworks Excavator Simulator Integration
Pay big money for a project design only to have it be used incorrectly in the field? A new partnership between CM Labs and Trimble aims to provide operators...
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Even Tighter Supply Coming? Deere Workers Strike For the First Time Since 1986
The industry’s inventory woes may have gotten even more pronounced as Deere & Company’s 10,000 UAW workers declared a strike at midnight Oct. 14th. It is the first major...
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JCB Unveils Its Tallest Telehandler, the Rotating 512-83R
JCB is going bigger and taller with its new eight-story-high rotating telehandler, the 512-83R, which it calls three machines in one. JCB says it can also serve as a...
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