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Landoll Corporation Designs Double Drop Model 353 Trailer →

Landoll Corporation, a manufacturer of specialty transport trailers, has designed and built an all-new double drop traveling axle trailer to transport a wide variety of oversize, over-height equipment including motor coaches, metro buses, front end loaders and tall mast forklifts. The Model 353 is designed with full hydraulic manual controls along with full function wireless remote hand-held controls. Click for more...

New Perspectives for Terex Cranes With JSC Kwintmadi in Russia →

Terex Cranes entered into an agreement with JVM Equipment International Limited of Ireland for the exclusive distribution of Terex all terrain cranes and rough terrain cranes in the European zone of Russia through JVM Equipment’s Russian subsidiary company JSC Kwintmadi. JSC Kwintmadi is one of Russia’s leading construction equipment dealers in the European zone of Russia, which is comprised of districts one, two, three and four of the Russian Federation. Click for more...

Super Crane Goes to Work on Delicate Rural Utah Bridge →

When the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and prime contractor Granite Construction sat down to the design phase of the Eagle Canyon Bridge project, it realized that using a standard-size crane was not an option. Because of the bridge’s age and vulnerable state, it could not withstand the weight that a regular crane would impose upon it. The $5.29 million project consisted of a deck replacement on the eastbound bridge, with approach slab work and measures to stiffen the existing structure. Click for more...

Cranes Take Center Stage as World Trade Center Site Rises →

The World Trade Center Site in New York City’s Lower Manhattan has been a place of much construction and sadly, destruction, over the past four decades. When construction started on the first towers in the late 1960s, businesses and area residents were not all pleased, especially since there was both displacement involved and a change in the character of the area due to what some feared as a modern monstrosity in their midst. Click for more...

OSHA Publishes Final Rule on Construction Cranes and Derricks →

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that it is issuing a new rule addressing the use of cranes and derricks in construction, which will replace a decades-old standard. Approximately 267,000 construction, crane rental and crane certification establishments employing about 4.8 million workers will be affected by the rule published today. “The significant number of fatalities associated with the use of cranes in construction led the Labor Department to undertake this rulemaking,” said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Click for more...

SVP, Ring Power Crane General Manager Dallas Johnson Dies →

SVP and Ring Power Crane General Manager Dallas Johnson succumbed to pancreatic cancer at Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., June 27. Born in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1944, Mr. Johnson excelled at sports throughout his youth and was awarded a full football scholarship to the University of Florida, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in advertising, Mr. Click for more...

Mass.’s Astro Crane Gives Big Lift to Route 111 Bridge Project in N.H. →

High above the New Hampshire roads, in the shadow of Canobee Lake Park, two cranes and a dozen men coupled big steel beams into place. Those huge steel beams for the bridge were set by S & W Construction, a steel erecting company in Concord, N.H., and lifted up by cranes supplied by Astro Crane Company of Stow, Mass., subcontractors working under the guidance of Middlesex Corporation, the project’s general contractor, based in Littleton, Mass. Click for more...

Federal Money to Be Used for W.Va.’s Highland Trail →

DAVIS, W.Va. (AP) The Heart of the Highlands Trail, a 23-mi. loop passing through five public land agencies in and around Canaan Valley, is taking shape in Tucker County, due to a $600,000 appropriation from Congress. The Heart of the Highlands will connect a series of existing trails in Blackwater Falls State Park, the Canaan Valley Institute, the Monongahela National Forest, Canaan Valley State Park and Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Click for more...

Hammond Drive Project Designed for Easing Traffic →

Metro Atlanta motorists may face a hassle in the near term, but in the long term, the expansion of the Hammond Drive bridge over Georgia Highway 400 will help alleviate traffic in the busy area north of the city. Earth began to be moved in the late spring on the $17 million design-build project, located several miles north of downtown Atlanta in the busy corridor between I-285 and Abernathy Road in the suburban city of Sandy Springs. Click for more...

Ritchie Bros. Denver Auction Breaks Company Record →

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers broke its record for the highest value equipment item ever sold in a Denver auction during a two-day multi-million dollar unreserved public auction at the company’s permanent site in Denver, Colo., on June 10 and 11. More than 1,900 registered bidders from 32 countries, including 45 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces competed for 1,400 equipment items, trucks and cranes. Click for more...

Pinnacle’s Reed Owsley Retires, Mackinson Named Successor →

Carolina Tractor and Pinnacle Cranes announced that Reed Owsley, vice president and general manager of Pinnacle Cranes, will be retiring from the company, effective December 31, 2010. Jim Mackinson has been named as Owsley’s successor and will join the company in early July. Owsley has been a key member of the Carolina Tractor executive management team since joining the company in December 2001, when Carolina Tractor acquired the distribution rights for Link-Belt Cranes in the Carolinas. Click for more...

Louisiana’s Geaux Wider Project Underway →

At the risk of many puns being made on its name, Louisiana’s Geaux Wider project is Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development’s ambitious multi-year project to decrease travel time between Interstates 10 and 12 in East Baton Rouge and Livingston Parishes. The goal of this $86 million federally funded project is to enhance safety and relieve congestion along these heavily traveled highways by widening them from four to six lanes. Click for more...

Cable Stay Bridge Marks New Era in Minneapolis →

A split second blast followed by bursts of light sparked the end of a transportation era last June for residents and commuters of the north side of Minneapolis. At the same time, it marked the beginning of a new era when demolition crews dropped the steel trusses of the 104-year-old Lowry Avenue Bridge into the Mississippi River to clear the way for a new and much different looking bridge to serve the city’s north side for the next 100 years. Click for more...

Projects Underway to Aid Huntington’s Traffic Flow →

When the town of Huntington on New York’s Long Island was founded in the 1600s, whaling and other marine related services formed a large part of its economy, although this declined after the railroad arrived in the 1860s. In common with many locations on Long Island, after World War II the population of the town increased at a tremendous pace, bringing with it urbanization and in particular increased traffic and extended commuting times. Click for more...

Hoover Dam Bypass Project Approaches End →

A 1,060-ft. (323 m) concrete arch curves 900 ft. (274.3 m) above the Colorado River, part of a 1,900-ft. (579 m) long bridge with its abutments set into the cliffs of the Black Canyon, approximately 1,500 ft. (457.2 m) downstream of the Hoover Dam. Starting in November, traffic traveling U.S. 93 will use this monumental new bridge to cross the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona. The current route across the top of the Hoover Dam cannot safely accommodate the 14,000 vehicles and trucks that use it each day; issues include sharp turns, narrow roadways, inadequate shoulders, poor sight distance, and low travel speeds. Click for more...

Barnhart Agrees to Purchase Powell Crane Rental Division →

Barnhart Crane & Rigging and Powell Companies have reached a definitive agreement under which Barnhart will purchase Powell’s crane rental division, which has locations in Knoxville and Johnson City, Tenn. Powell’s crane rental division has served the Tri-Cities and surrounding areas for 40 years. Powell’s other companies consist of Coal and Minerals Processing engineering/construction, Steel Erectors services, Decanter Machines Inc., and Powell Technologies. Click for more...

Woburn’s C.N. Wood Inc. Named NPK Dealer for Bay State, Rhode Island →

C.N. Wood Co. Inc., Woburn, Mass., has been named the NPK dealer for the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The exclusive distributor for Komatsu off-road equipment will be carrying the full line of NPK products, which includes a comprehensive offering of hydraulic hammers, pedestal breaker systems, heavy duty grapples, primary/secondary crushers, material processors, plate compactor/drivers and quick-attach couplers as well as a complete offering of OEM parts to support these attachments. Click for more...

Clarence Brown Conference Center Crosses Halfway Point →

On July 1, 2009, Bartow County civic leaders assembled to break ground on the new Clarence Brown Conference Center in Cartersville, Ga. Currently, the $20-million, LEED Certified facility is approximately 60 percent finished and is on track for an August 2010 completion date. Hogan Construction Group LLC, Norcross, Ga., is the general contractor on the project. Bartow County and each of its municipalities are jointly funding the conference center through special purpose local option sales tax proceeds, which also is funding a number of other local projects. Click for more...

Bridge Project Expected to Beat Deadline →

A railroad bridge replacement project is nearing an early completion date in the city of Waynesboro, Va., under the direction of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). The contract of $9,862,043 was awarded to Abernathy Construction, Glen Allen, Va. The project is headed by David Abernathy, superintendent, and Jeffrey Abernathy. According to Sandy Myers, public relations manager of VDOT’s Staunton District, Abernathy redesigned the railroad bridge, saving the organization $400,000. Click for more...

SC Names Winners of Its First Crane Operator Safety Awards →

The Specialized Carriers Rigging Association (SC) awarded 18 Crane Operator Safety Awards during the 2010 annual conference, April 6 to 10, at the Omni Hotel at Champions Gate, Orlando, Fla. This new award was presented to certified crane operators who exhibit exemplary work achievements while accumulating 10,000 consecutive man-hours and recording zero accidents or incidents. Winners represent six different companies: • J.J. Click for more...

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