Off-Highway Trucks

Newell Kicks Volvo, Hitachi Fleet Into Overdrive to Meet Deadline →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Keith Newell knows that the best way to stay successful is to surround himself with the best people and the best equipment. When his company, W.S. Newell Inc., took on a site prep job in Montgomery, AL, he armed himself with a little of both, including some of the newest offerings from Hitachi and Volvo. The arsenal of 25 machines that Newell is using on the Wal-Mart development project includes eight Volvo articulated haulers and three Hitachi excavators the 50-year-old business just bought from Trax Inc.’s operation in Montgomery. Click for more...

RDO Sees Q4 Loss, Exits Truck Operation →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Construction equipment retailer RDO Equipment Co. said it expects to incur a fiscal fourth-quarter loss from operations of about $6.5 million and a one-time charges of about $7.5 million. The company said the losses reflect a decrease in demand and inventory value for trucks and construction equipment and said it had an agreement to sell its truck operations. The Fargo, ND-based company said the losses include those on its truck operations. Click for more...

Terex Trucks Travel Worldwide to Serve as Coal Mine Workhorses →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Rigid dump trucks built in Scotland have for the past seven years played a role in keeping pace with international demand for some of the world’s lowest sulphur coal, from the Pasir coal mine in Kalimantan, Indonesia, where annual output in 2001 is set to reach 10 million tons (9 million t). Terex Equipment, supported by its dealer, has since 1993 supplied rigid mining trucks to the Pasir mine at Batukajang Pasir, East Kalimantan, in the Indonesian part of Borneo. Click for more...

’Monster Truck’ Stomps More Lime Out of Nevada Quarry →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Chemical Lime, one of largest producers of industrial lime in the world, is dramatically stepping up its Nevada production requirements. With the decision to increase production from 810,000 metric tons to 3 million metric tons (900,000 tons to 3.3 million tons), Chemical Lime decided it was time to call in a monster truck – a Cat 775D quarry truck. “[The increase] necessitated a vehicle that could outperform its class,” said Rex Simpson, quarry superintendent, Chemical Lime. Click for more...

Kids Look to Future With Career Days →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Thousands of students recently were introduced to the exciting career opportunities within the construction industries. Approximately 3,200 career and technology students from 45 schools representing 32 independent school districts were transported out to the Eagle Mountain Lake Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Field Day site. Students visited with the construction industry in the Second Annual Construction Career Days Exposition. Click for more...

Monroe Truck Hosts Russian Visitor →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Monroe Truck Equipment, Monroe, WI, recently hosted a visitor from Russia who spent three days shadowing a variety of employees from different areas of the company in manufacturing, sales, accounting and purchasing. Boris Schepkin is the deputy director on economics and finance at OCNA3, a manufacturer in Oryol, Russia. While in Monroe, he spent considerable time with Monroe Snow & Ice Control manufacturing Foremen Kevin Davis and John Hromadka who took time to show him American manufacturing methods and quality control procedures. Click for more...

Contractor Uses New Paving Technique to Keep on Truckin’ →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Jack’s Truck Stop in Cullman, AL, got a new concrete parking lot recently, but the usual forms, concrete finishers and carpenters were nowhere to be seen. The six-acre parking lot was made using roller compacted concrete, a process which utilizes asphalt paving machines and dump trucks instead of ready-mix trucks and finishing crews. This revolutionary new way to place concrete was selected as the optimum method for expanding the truck stop. Click for more...

Moxy MT36 Demo Truck Hits the Dirt in Massachusetts →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Moxy MT36 demo truck was recently hauled up to Goodall and Sons Tractor, Westboro, MA, because Carl Goodall, owner, wanted to see how the truck ran. John McCourt Construction Co, a large company in the Boston area, agreed to demo the truck. McCourt was capping a large landfill in Quincy and turning it into a golf course. The MT36, working along with four Volvo A35Cs, was being loaded by a Hitachi EX550, and then hauled uphill about one-half mile. Click for more...

Moxy MT36 Tackles Tough West Virginia Mountains →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Recently, Brian Leatherman, salesman, of Anderson Equipment Co., Charleston, WV, rented his first MT36 to Black Diamond Construction. The truck was placed at Pine Ridge Coal Company in Van, WV. The owner of the coal company had originally seen the MT36 on display at ConExpo. He was so impressed with what he saw, that he wanted to put it to the test at one of his own sites. The job he had in mind entailed building a new haul road with three D350Ds about 1.5 mi. Click for more...

Round Mountain Strikes Gold With Cat Truck Fleet →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Round Mountain Gold Smoky Valley Common operation in central Nevada is one of the largest open-pit, heap-leaching gold mines in the world. The mine now moves about 300,000 tons (270,000 t) of material each day with a fleet of Caterpillar trucks — some of which have powered through as many as 98,192 operating hours. But the mine wasn’t always big and successful. The remotely located operation grew by overcoming the obstacles created by being 180 mi. Click for more...

Grove Manlift Raises the Stakes With A60J Articulating Boom →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Grove Manlift’s articulated 60-ft. (18.3 m) class boom, the A60J, offers many customer requested features, along with the Rapid Rise main boom. The Rapid Rise main boom design, a new feature, allows the platform to be lowered to the ground with the riser fully elevated and from the ground to its full height of 60 ft. (l8.3 m) in less than 40 seconds. The A60J is one of the only 60 ft. articulated units to offer this standard feature. Click for more...

Chicago Contract Quotas Struck Down →

From Construction Equipment Guide... A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional a Cook County law requiring that at least 40 percent of county construction contracts go to minority- and women-owned businesses. Judge John Grady ruled recently that preferences for minorities and women violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The challenge to the preferences was brought in 1996 by the Builders Association of Greater Chicago, a trade group comprising some of the city’s largest commercial builders. "Judge Grady did not find any evidence of discrimination in the construction community in Chicago," said Albert Leitschuh, association executive vice president. Click for more...

Midwest Truck Show Dazzles Thousands →

From Construction Equipment Guide... This year’s 37th Midwest Truck Show sponsored by the Mid-West Truckers Association was held at the Prairie Capital Convention Center Feb. 17-19, 2000. The show theme this year was “Shaping Your Future.” Displays were packed back-to-back, taking up two floors of the convention center. Vendors from a variety of groups such as tractors, trailers, engines, parts, accessories, communication and computer equipment, tires, lubricants and even the U.S. Click for more...

International Combines Assembly, Service for 5000i Truck →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The International brand has a new vehicle to drive construction customer profits over the life of the product: the International 5000i integrated dump truck, a concurrently engineered, assembled, marketed, sold and supported dump truck. This purchase can be made now at select International dealerships in West Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia just in time for the busy construction season that makes or breaks construction businesses. Click for more...

Deere Makes Large Inroads, Rolls Out 25- to 45-Ton Articulated Dump Trucks →

From Construction Equipment Guide... With the introduction of its new articulated dump trucks (ADTs), John Deere continues to expand its construction equipment product line to include larger equipment, while serving a growing market. Deere’s line of ADTs consists of four models — 250C, 300C, 350C and 400C. These large haul trucks are ideal for applications including site preparation, road building, land reclamation, landfill construction, waste management, mining and quarrying. Click for more...

Expansion Project Takes Off at New Hampshire Airport →

From Construction Equipment Guide... New Hampshire’s largest airport, located in the city of Manchester, is midway through a $320-million rejuvenation project. As part of an improvement project that began in 1993 with the construction of a new terminal building, the airport, located about 64 kilometers (40 mi.) north of Boston, MA, is to be completed in 2005. The airport also will boast new taxiways, taxi bridges, a 4,800 space parking facility, an Airfield Rescue and Fire Fighting Building, a private air terminal and two runway extension projects. According to Richard Fixler, assistant airport director of engineering and planning the runway extension projects were needed to bring the runways into Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) compliance. Click for more...

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