Off-Highway Trucks

Kenworth Hosts Heavy Truck Events in Ohio, Arizona →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Vocational truck operators recently tested the newest Kenworth trucks equipped with the latest options and features, including the extended day cab, at “Kenworth: The Right Choice,” a hands-on, educational program sponsored by Kenworth Truck Company. This event, designed to show the features of the Kenworth lineup of working trucks, attracted more than 130 customers at two locations: Kenworth’s Chillicothe, OH, manufacturing plant and Caterpillar’s 6,000-acre Tinaja Hills proving grounds facility near Tucson, AZ. The programs included supplier trade fairs with representatives from a dozen suppliers, ride and drive demonstrations of Kenworth trucks and a walk-around of a Kenworth T800. Click for more...

Terex Wins Contract to Supply Israel With Trucks →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Terex Corporation announced Jan. 7 that its joint venture, American Truck Company (ATC), of which Terex is a two-thirds owner, has been awarded and entered into a contract with the U.S. Army Tank-armaments and Automotive Command (TACOM) to supply the Ministry of Defense of Israel (IMOD) with 302 medium tactical trucks and associated logistics support. The trucks are being supplied to Israel by the United States under the U.S. Click for more...

New MO Roundabout Proving Unpopular With Truckers →

From Construction Equipment Guide... PERRYVILLE, MO (AP) A new concrete roundabout in southeast Missouri is frustrating truckers, who claim it is a highway hazard and a waste of tax dollars. The roundabout opened 12 days ago at U.S. 61 and Main Street in Perryville. Truckers claim it is difficult to navigate large rigs around the oval-shaped interchange. Tires of large trucks routinely scrape the roundabout’s inner curb. One truck even got stuck on the curb, highway officials said. Click for more...

J.W. Burress Takes On Moxy Line of Articulated Trucks →

From Construction Equipment Guide... In August, J.W. Burress Inc., headquarted in Roanoke, VA, took on the Moxy line of articulated trucks. “We were very impressed with the quality of the manufacturer and power of the truck,” said William Daly, J.W. Burress senior vice president. “We were also impressed with their support network for parts and service.” Moxy Trucks, based in Norway, has more than 30 years in the ADT business. Click for more...

Bruce Albea Widens Highway 27 With Excess Fill From Neighboring Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... When Bruce Albea Contracting Inc., based in Rockmart and Newnan, GA, landed three recent road-widening jobs, the company needed to augment its equipment fleet. Deciding to spend its money on machines from a well-established dealer, Bruce Albea contacted Cowin Equipment, which opened its doors to Georgia customers one year ago. In preparation for moving an extensive amount of dirt and material for its upcoming jobs, Bruce Albea purchased a trio of Terex TA40 articulated trucks and a Kobelco SK480 hydraulic excavator. The first test for new equipment was a $22.7-million Highway 27 road-widening project in Troup County, near LaGrange, GA, that included multiple bridges over West Point Lake. Click for more...

Tracey Road Equipment Names Tim Miller Truck Sales Manager →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Tracey Road Equipment Inc. has announced the appointment of Tim Miller as the company’s new corporate commercial truck sales manager. Miller brings with him more than 20 years of experience in the heavy-duty trucking industry. His experience includes dealing with all levels of the trucking industry from independent owner-operator to major carriers, truck leasing companies and small to large private fleet owners. Click for more...

Tri-Supply Sells First JCB 714 in the Mid-Atlantic Region →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Tri-Supply & Equipment, based in New Castle, DE, recently sold the first JCB 714 articulated dump truck in the Mid-Atlantic region to Artesian Water Company, of Wilmington, DE. According to Norman Taylor, manager of facility and vehicle maintenance of Artesian Water, the company will immediately begin employing its 714 on a variety of utility job sites transferring soil and other material. The 714, along with the 718, take the place of the original 712. Click for more...

Wilson Breaks Ground on Atlanta’s Glenwood Park →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Preparation for the “footprint” of Glenwood Park, a project that has been deemed a “city within a city,” is currently under development by Green Street Properties LLC in east Atlanta. John W. Wilson Grading Inc., based in Fayetteville, GA, won the contract to provide the site preparation and infrastructure for the project, which at total buildout could reach a value between $150 and $200 million. Click for more...

URS Corporation Helps Rebuild Florida’s Everglades →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Florida Everglades is a mysterious place. Gold-tinged sunsets are a background for a land decorated in sawgrass prairies and mangrove and cypress swamps. Home to roseate spoonbills and great blue herons, the Everglades is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side. San Francisco-based URS Corporation is rebuilding nature in the Everglades that had been turned into farmland on one of the nation’s most precious wildlife reserves. The United States Army Corp of Engineers, Jacksonville District, awarded URS Corporation a contract for the construction of a segment of a storm water treatment area outside the village of Wellington, FL. Click for more...

Volvo Credits Truck, Construction Vehicle Sales for Earnings Jump →

From Construction Equipment Guide... STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Swedish vehicle maker Volvo said July 24 that second-quarter netprofit jumped 59 percent thanks mainly to cost savings and strong sales of new trucks and construction vehicles. But the company was cautious about the outlook for the rest of 2003. The earnings announcement excluded the Volvo’s car division, which was sold to the U.S.-based Ford Motor Co. in 1999. The Goteborg-based company posted a net profit of 1.72 billion kronor (US$210 million) for the three months ending June 30, compared with a profit of 1.08 billion kronor for the same period last year. Click for more...

Crest Truck Lives Up to ’Mega Supermarket’ Moniker →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Crest Truck started out in a four-bay shop in 1972. Today, not much more than 30 years later, the family-owned business has expanded to four locations serving the industry throughout the Mid-Atlantic region through sites in Bowmansville, Abington, and Seneca, PA, as well as Mt. Airy, MD. “We began as just a father-son operation — Norm Ziegler Sr. and Norm Ziegler Jr. — to service the construction industry as an installation and distribution point for Reading Body Works,” said Kris Ziegler, sales manager specialty equipment. “In the beginning Crest Truck’s focus was on standard equipment. Click for more...

C.C. Mangum Bulls Through Dry Shot Rock for NC Development →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Park at Southpoint, a mixed-use development, is currently under construction in Durham, NC. Developer/owner David Johnson hired C.C. Mangum Contractors LLC, as the general contractor for the project, which will cost approximately $9 million. Situated on 98 acres (39.2 h) in Durham, the site is just north of I-40 on the east side of State Route NC 751 and 16 mi. (25.6 km) west of Raleigh. The site is being developed to accommodate an auto complex, retail shops and restaurants. Click for more...

Cat Agrees to Acquire Terex Mining Truck Business →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Caterpillar Inc. and Terex Corporation announced that they have reached a non-binding agreement in principle for Caterpillar to acquire Terex’s worldwide electric drive mining truck business, and for Terex to acquire Caterpillar’s 5000-Series mining shovel intellectual property. Their respective Boards of Directors have authorized commencement of due diligence and the negotiation of a definitive agreement. Caterpillar will acquire Terex’s eight-model line of DC and ACelectric drive mining trucks. Click for more...

Oak Contracting Makes the Grade for $27.5M High School in Owings Mills, MD →

From Construction Equipment Guide... By the start of the 2003 school year, high school students in the Owings Mills, MD, area will have a brand new school. Construction of the building is well under way under the direction of Oak Contracting Corporation, Baltimore. Work began on Aug. 15, 2001, and is scheduled to be complete by July 15, 2003. According to Mark Harvison, Oak Contracting’s assistant project manager, the total cost for site development and the building is $27.5 million. Click for more...

Contractors Complete Key Phase of 17th Street Bridge →

Contractors involved in building Atlanta’s new 17th Street Bridge reached a major milestone recently when they set the last of the structure’s 48 steel beams in place. “The beam setting operations have been as smooth as we could have imagined,” said Mickey McGee, metro district construction engineer of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). “We owe a big ’thank you’ to our contractors, to Mother Nature, and to Atlanta’s drivers, who heard the construction messages and avoided the area during work times.” The contractors working on the bridge include crews from C.W. Click for more...

Terex Partnership Gets Nod to Supply Trucks to Israeli Defenses →

Terex Corporation announced in April that its joint venture, American Truck Company (ATC), has been selected as the preferred bidder by the Ministry of Defense of Israel (IMOD) to supply the Israel Defense Forces with 315 medium tactical trucks and associated support. The anticipated order value is in excess of $50 million. The announcement follows the conclusion of a lengthy competition between ATC and other U.S. Click for more...

WV’s Polino Contracting Hauls Ash With Hitachi Trucks →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Some companies like niches. Not Polino Contracting Inc. Known as one of West Virginia’s largest heavy/highway contracting firms and active in several nearby states. It is not afraid to shift its specialty as the market changes. Run now by the third generation of Polinos, initially the company focused on road and railroad construction, quarries, and coal mining in the 1920s, shifted to surface mining in the 1950s, and to coal handling operations in the 1960s and 1970s. Click for more...

Black Hills Come Alive With $18.2M Project →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Highway 385 snakes, rises and falls as it traverses the pine covered slopes of the western Black Hills of South Dakota. A main arterial that directly connects all of the major tourist attractions in the Black Hills region, a 6-mi. (9.6 km) portion of the 120 mi. (193 km) of the road, just south of the popular tourist town of Deadwood, is now undergoing a complete reconstruction. The road carries a high volume of traffic during the summer travel season. Click for more...

Kenco Group Builds $12M Warehouse for General Mills in TN →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Kenco Group, based in Chattanooga, TN, and operating in excess of 15 million sq. ft. of warehouse space in 19 states and Canada, has expanded in Wauhatchie, TN. The $23-million project, which straddles the state line of Georgia includes a 688,000-sq.-ft. $12-million warehouse that will store cereal. It has been designed with room for future expansion up to a million sq. ft. General Mills moved in as tenant in February. As owner/developer, Kenco will play a role in economic development, and likely receive some leeway on property taxes. Scott Austin, senior project manager of Conlan Company, the general contractor headquartered in Marietta, GA, recalled getting under way last September. Click for more...

Kenworth to Sponsor Alabama Concert at Mid-America Trucking Show in March →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Alabama, one of country music’s leading bands, will perform at the 2003 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, courtesy of Kenworth Truck Company. Kenworth is sponsoring the popular group’s performance at Mid-America for the 15th consecutive and final year as a way to thank truckers and the trucking community for their support. The concert is set for Friday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Freedom Hall, adjacent to the truck show. Click for more...

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