Construction Equipment Weekly-January 12, 2010

Equipment Headlines

How to Get Uncle Sam to Pay for Equipment Updates
The U.S. government is offering hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives to clean up diesel exhaust stacks in the field through grant programs. Getting the money is a competitive process, but any equipment owner willing to work for it can get a share of the money to help pay for emissions-related repowers, rebuilds, retrofits or even machine replacements.
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EPA Proposes Strict Limits on Ground-Level Pollution
If the EPA follows through on a recent proposal to impose new limits on ground-level pollution, owners of construction equipment, trucks, cars and other vehicles, as well as power plants and factories, may have to install expensive pollution-control equipment.
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Caterpillar's New 907H Z-bar Wheel Loader Fills Product Gap
By introducing a second 70-net-horsepower compact wheel loader to the market, Caterpillar is filling a product-line spot between two popular models, essentially incorporating the front end of the 70-horsepower 906H with the back end of the 79-horsepower 908H.
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Dynapac's New Line of Highway Class Pavers Designed from the Road Up
The first two models of the new Dynapac highway class paver product line, the F1000T and F1000W will make their "official" debut at the World of Asphalt show in Cincinnati in February. They will feature an outboard auger drive and conveyor system which eliminates the auger chain drive box and leaves no center line segregation in the asphalt.
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Terex Sells Load King Trailer Business to Manitex
Manitex International, maker of boom truck cranes, rough terrain forklifts, special mission oriented vehicles, and other lifting equipment, has acquired Terex's Load King Trailers, a South Dakota-based manufacturer of specialized custom trailers and hauling systems used to transport heavy equipment, for $3.1 million.
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Contractor News

7 Tasks Equipment Managers Should Undertake in 2010
As construction markets continue to lag the general economy, what better way to start the year than with a list of priorities for equipment managers heading into 2010.
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Construction Company Makes a Quantum Leap in Grading Productivity
Equipped with Topcon's 3D-MC² and Deere's 764 High-Speed Dozer, Wisconsin-based RJS Construction has been able to drastically speed up work on a challenging Minnesota rail-grading project.
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Construction Employers Double Layoffs in December
Layoffs will continue at least through the winter at about a 10,000-25,000 a month pace.
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Developers, Contractors in Upper Midwest See Struggles Ahead
With labor markets at weak levels in 2010, North and South Dakota will be attractive places that offer jobs, but the weak condition will keep economic recovery from gaining fast ground.
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Contractors Pessimistic About 2010
Double-digit unemployment, slow-moving stimulus funds, and a transportation reauthorization bill delayed by a Congress consumed by health-care reform has kept construction from any sort of rebound. As work in the pipeline kept many contractors occupied for most of 2009, that pipeline is decidedly quiet heading into 2010.
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Project Leads

MODOT Route 70 Grading and Drainage, Jefferson City, Mo., $17.5 Million
Grading and drainage for new bridge from North Broadway to the Missouri approach of the new Mississippi River Bridge, the total length of the improvement being 0.22 miles. Bid date: 1/27/2010, 11:00 a.m.

Miami Beach Right-of-Way Improvements, Miami Beach, Fla., $18.7 Million
Work includes demolition, site preparation, earthwork, storm drainage, road paving and restoration, and concrete sidewalks and valley gutters in Central Bayshore and Lake Pancoast neighborhoods. Bid date: 2/01/2010, 3:00 p.m.

Louisiana Storm Drainage Structure, New Orleans, La., $175 Million
The storm drainage structure will be built on Bayou Verret just south of Outer Cataouatche Canal and tie into the adjacent proposed earthen levees with T-walls which further connect to the levees to be constructed under WBV-72 contract. Work consists of grading and leveling areas where construction is to take place. Bid date: 2/23/2010

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