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Tariffs Ripple Effect

April 5, 2018
Just as equipment fleet managers gear up purchase plans, politics is applying more pressure to machine prices. That pressure is coming from President Trump’s proposed tariffs ...
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Are You Using Tech to Its Fullest? OEMs Say Yes... and No

Dec. 6, 2017
In the course of our work at CE, we ask OEMs a lot of questions about their products. It’s one of the ways we strive to help you make informed buying and asset-management decisions...
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Technology Side Effects

Oct. 30, 2017
Everyday equipment fleets are not rushing to integrate machine data, but that decision may be coming sooner than expected or desired. The impetus may end up coming not from organization...
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Tech, Low and High, Has Its Place

Oct. 30, 2017
An interesting technology phenomenon is playing out in the equipment universe. On the one hand, high-tech tools such as data analytics and machine control promise to increase ...
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Personal Air-conditioning? There's a Vest for That

May 18, 2017
With hot weather on the way for most of the country, it’s time for managers to consider how to protect workers not fortunate enough to spend all day in air-conditioned cabs or...
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Maybe California Should Fall Into the Sea

April 28, 2017
Going far beyond their state's out-of-touch-with-the-rest-of-the-country track record, self-righteous legislators in California now presume to penalize contractors who work on...