Truck and Trailer Equipment Articles

Aurora Public Libraries-Eola Road Branch Expansion Project Begins →

Mayor David L. Stover, city officials and dignitaries will join representatives of the Aurora Public Libraries at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new two-story 34,000 square foot expansion of the Eola Road branch. The Aurora City Council earlier this year approved the issue of $3.1 million in general obligation bonds to help pay for the expansion of the branch located on the south end of the Eola Community Center on this City’s far east side. Click for more...

Rochester Awaits New $63.9M Bascule Bridge Over Genesee →

A few years ago, a single lane bridge in upstate New York was replaced. It was affectionately known to local residents as the Thunder Bridge, from the loud banging that ensued when cars drove over its loose timber decking. “Shortly after the new bridge went in I had a call from the adjacent neighbor, right on top of the bridge, complaining that he could not sleep at night any more,” recalled Bo Mansouri of Monroe County Department of Transportation (DOT) in New York state. Click for more...

North East Enterprises Thrives on Repeat Business →

“We want our customers to give us their business not because they feel obligated but because we earned it.” With a modus operandi like that how could a business be anything but successful? Started 18 years ago as a storage container and storage rental business, North East Enterprises of North East, MD, has moved on to bigger and better things. The company expanded its horizons in 1994, when owner Robert J. Click for more...

AES Wolf Hollow Plant Project Adds Juice to Texas Power Mix →

One of the last bills to pass George W. Bush’s 1999 Texas Legislature deregulated the state’s electricity markets. Now two years later, new competitors are getting in gear to take advantage of the new open markets. AES Corp. of Arlington, VA, is just one of these companies. Last November, AES began construction on a $300-million power plant in Granbury, TX, about thirty miles outside of Ft. Click for more...

AES Begins Construction of 730-MW Gas-fired Texas Power Plant →

AES Corp. said it had begun construction of the $300 million, 730 megawatt, AES Wolf Hollow power plant in Granbury, TX, 30 miles southwest of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The natural gas fired plant will supply 350 megawatts of electricity under a 20-year power purchase agreement with a major U.S. power marketer, AES said in a statement. The remaining electric power will be sold into the Texas electricity market, the company said. The plant is expected to begin commercial operations in the summer of 2002. AES Wolf Hollow will use MHI 501 "G" combustion turbine technology, with major equipment supplied by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Click for more...

Henderson Airtek Offers Smoother Ride →

Hendrickson, a global designer and manufacturer of suspension systems for the heavy-duty and medium-duty commercial vehicle industry, has recently announced the release of a new, lightweight front air suspension and steer axle. The Airtek integrated front air suspension and steer-axle design offers comfort and the opportunity to run on a full air platform, consisting of a trailer air suspension, drive-axle air suspension and steer- axle air suspension. Click for more...

NJ Contractor Relies on Built-to-Last Rogers’ Trailers →

There’s something to be said about a trailer that lasts 20 years. In fact, Ed Stella of Stella Contracting Inc., Elmer, NJ, has a lot of good things to say about his Rogers Bros. trailers. “These trailers are really built to last. That’s part of the reason why we’ve bought four Rogers trailers in the 26 years we’ve been in business,” said Stella. Stella, who bought his first Rogers Bros. Click for more...

Jury Awards $99 Million in Deaths of Ironworkers →

A jury ordered two companies to pay $99 million to the widows of three ironworkers killed when a crane collapsed at the construction site of Milwaukee’s new baseball stadium. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of America is responsible for paying all but $157,500 of the award. The jury found Mitsubishi and Lampson International responsible for the July 1999 accident that killed the ironworkers. Mitsubishi was building the stadium’s retractable roof, and had leased a crane from Lampson. Click for more...

Kobelco CK2500 Boom Crane Hoists Productivity With Strength, Agility →

Kobelco America Inc. has extended its line of hydraulic lattice boom crawler cranes with the introduction of the 250-ton (225 t) CK2500. It features strong lifting capabilities, exceptionally long reach, and a short swing radius. These features make the crane extremely productive, even in close quarters. Kobelco’s new CK2500 crane also is designed for fast and economical transport. It quickly erects and disassembles on site with no assistance. Click for more...

Kobelco CK850 Crawler Crane Hoists Heavy Loads Sky High →

Kobelco America Inc. improves its line of hydraulic lattice boom crawler cranes with the introduction of the new 85-ton (77 t) CK850 crane. It features strong lifting capacities, wet-type disc brakes, and a long reach. Kobelco’s CK850 crane has a 213-hp (158 kW) Mitsubishi 6D16-TLED diesel engine. This six-cylinder engine, with a 460 cu. in. (7,538 cu cm) displacement, is water-cooled, fuel-injected, intercooled and turbocharged to deliver lifting and traveling power. Click for more...

Hind Motors Sells Earth-Moving Unit to Caterpillar →

Indian car-making firm Hindustan Motors Ltd said recently it had signed a deal to sell its earthmoving equipment unit to Caterpillar Inc. of the United States for $72.1 million. The sale will help the cash-strapped company reduce its crushing current long-term debt N.R. Kulkarni, financial adviser to the Chandra Kant Birla business group, to which the company belongs, said recently. Hindustan Motors said its earthmoving division had a market share of around 50 percent in dumpers and 70 percent in loaders. The division, set up in 1969, has made dumpers, loaders and track type tractors of its own design and under licence from Caterpillar since 1984 at its two manufacturing plants near Madras and Pondicherry in south India. India has seen a surge in the demand for earthmoving machines which is expected to expand even further, owing to growing infrastructure needs, the statement added. The division’s 1,400 employees will be transferred to Caterpillar, Kulkarni said. Hindustan Motors reported losses of 603.7 million rupees on total revenues of 6.4 billion rupees in the six months to September 2000. Click for more...

Rogers Trailer Line Greets New Era With Ultima Series →

Drawing on its long record of engineering experience in trailer design and manufacturing, Rogers full line of lowbed fixed and detachable gooseneck heavy haulers and tag-along trailers offer new features and technological innovations for 2000. Ultima series 31.5-, 45- and 54-metric-ton (35, 50 and 60 ton) capacity trailers offer customers an excellent strength-to-weight ratio to accommodate greater payloads while complying with strict GVWR regulations. Click for more...

Kenworth’s Hybrids Combine Features →

Kenworth Truck Co. introduced the WorkCab, a new offering for the dump truck segment of the construction market at the World of Concrete Trade Show in Las Vegas. The WorkCab applies the no-nonsense cab from Kenworth’s T300 medium-duty model to the robust, proven chassis of Kenworth’s T800 heavy duty model. The vehicle is a combination that provides an economical truck solution for dump truck operators. The WorkCab retains the features that Kenworth customers have come to expect, yet was designed to be even more cost conscious, according to Brian Lindgren, Kenworth’s vocational and off-highway market segment manager. “Kenworth has built construction trucks for more than 70 years and the WorkCab has a heritage of innovative engineering and quality behind it,” Lindgren said. Click for more...

Biggest Turnpike Expansion in Five Decades Takes $2.6B Toll →

It’s the biggest expansion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike System since the l950s, during which the Turnpike’s northeastern, eastern and western extensions were constructed. When the massive Mon-Fayette Expressway is completed and opens as SR-43 it will extend north from I-68 near Morgantown, WV, through the Uniontown and Brownsville areas and the Monongahela River Valley to I-376 near Pittsburgh, PA. “The Mon-Fayette Expressway is actually composed of four separate, localized projects that would interconnect to form a continuous, 65-mi. Click for more...

Link-Belt Loads Into Wee Hours →

Houston, TX-based M-I L.L.C. is all too familiar with the rigors of loading and offloading offshore supply boats, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the stresses it places on the cranes that do the work. That’s the reason M-I recently purchased three new Link-Belt hydraulic crawler cranes from Con-Equip Inc. for their operations in Cameron and Fourchon Dock, LA. When M-I L.L.C called Con-Equip Inc., based in Houston, TX, Area Sales Manager Rod Dundas told them how the Link-Belt LS-208II 80-ton (72 t) hydraulic crawler cranes are specifically designed for severe duty-cycle applications. Click for more...

Gelder Brings Half Century of Experience to Raleigh Streets →

Spring came early to North Carolina, and crews of Gelder and Associates Inc. got a quick start on a summer-long project to repave 170 streets in Raleigh. The veteran paving company won a NC Department of Transportation and city contract to rework and resurface streets in every district of Raleigh. Rains in April caused some early disruption of the work. But the next month, temperatures were unseasonably warm and the asphalt was being laid in mid-summer conditions: hot and fast. Click for more...

Kennedy Keeps Hampton Roads Area Tunnels Up to Snuff →

The Kennedy Company of VA Inc. continues work on a tunnel maintenance contract awarded by the Virginia Department of Transportation in March 1999. The one-year contract, valued at approximately $677,000, was renewed in March 2000. The contract involves maintenance of five tunnels in the Hampton Roads area, including the Downtown and Midtown Tunnels, which connect the cities of Portsmouth and Norfolk, the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel, the 1-564 tunnel and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. Click for more...

Sithe Awards $1.2-Billion Contract →

In January, Sithe Energies Inc. awarded a $1.2- billion contract for the construction of two new power-generating facilities in New England to Raytheon Engineers and Constructors (RE&C), a unit of Raytheon Company. The two facilities, which will have a total generating capacity of 2,400 MW, are: Mystic Station, a 1,600 MW gas-fired power plant, located in Everett, MA, the largest power generating plant in New England; and Fore River Station, an 800 MW gas-fired power plant, situated in Weymouth, MA, near Boston’s south shore. Click for more...

Schaeff Beefs Up Excavator Line →

The HR 18 mini-excavator from Schaeff is the largest in a line of four models ranging from 1,588- to 4,672-kilogram (3,500 to 10,300 lb.) operating weights and is now available in the United States. General specifications include a Mitsubishi 35-kilowatt (47 hp) engine, operating weight of 4,672-kilogram (10,300 lbs.), bucket capacity .046 to .2 cubic meters (.06 to .26 cu. yd.), breakout force rated DIN at 3,125 kilograms (6,890 lbs.), digging depth of 3.7 meters (12 ft. Click for more...

Kobelco’s SK Series Doesn’t Sweat the Small Stuff on Big Jobs →

Kobelco has introduced four new Dynamic Acera models, the SK210LC, SK250LC, SK290LC and SK330LC Because each Dynamic Acera excavator is a leader in its weight class in breakout forces, they have the power to tackle the really tough jobs. Engaging Kobelco’s Power Boost by simply pushing the button atop the right-hand joystick, increases digging forces by 10 percent and gives the operator all the power needed — for as long as its needed. Click for more...

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