Sonora Construction - Wed May 06, 2020
Brittain Griffith Has Sonora Construction on Top
Brittain Griffith likes to play in the dirt. Millions of cubic yards at a time. The self-proclaimed "high-tech redneck dirt mover" likes to go "as hard and fast as I can every day." That, coupled with an unyielding desire to push the limits of his operation's capabilities has made his company, Sonora Construction, one of the largest excavation companies in Texas....
Sonora Construction - Wed May 06, 2020
Sonora Construction Puts Bell Trucks, Hyundai Excavators to Work
A Houston-area contractor is moving 2.5 million cu. yds. of dirt on a Howard Hughes Company project in Cypress, Tex. The $10 million project will create a 2-mi. long mitigation lake system and about 300 acres of future residential lots and common areas in the Bridgeland Subdivision, an 11,000-acre, master-planned community that will eventually be home to 65,000 people northwest of Houston....
Chadwick-BaRoss - Thu February 14, 2019
Walter Moyse Joins Thompson Equipment Team
Walter Moyse has joined the construction equipment sales team of Thompson Equipment, Lewiston, Maine. Moyse will be representing the SANY line of earth moving equipment, which includes excavators, wheel loaders and motorgraders as well as the Bell truck line of off-road articulated trucks....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Mon December 03, 2018
SC Rock Strikes Aggregate Gold in Coastal Limestone
Like all mine owners, Bill Griste Sr. has millions of years of geological forces to thank, in large part, for his success. His company, SC Rock, is in South Carolina's coastal region, home to a rich vein of marine limestone that formed around 10 million years ago....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Thu September 20, 2018
Brawny Artic, Rigid Off-Road Trucks Keep Jobs Moving Along
No matter their size or configuration, off-road haul trucks would have to be considered as the “strong men” on any construction site or quarry. Whether they are big, rigid haulers (off-roads with conventional front steering and rear-wheel drive), articulated haulers (more maneuverable trucks with a tractor and a trailer section) or compact dumpers, these burly machines are designed to carry heavy loads of dirt and rock in and out of a work area....
Mon April 23, 2018
Bell Trucks Holds Training Event
To coincide with the launch of the new Bell B20E LGP truck (low ground pressure), Bell Trucks America Inc. held a training event in the Orlando area April 9 to 13, 2018. The training event was designed to help dealer sales personnel thoroughly understand the features and benefits of the Bell E series ADT range of trucks....
Mon January 29, 2018
Iron Horse Contractors Grows Rapidly in Raleigh, N.C.
Despite only having a few years under its belt, Iron Horse Contractors, based in Raleigh, N.C., has rapidly grown into one of the most recognized construction companies in the greater Raleigh Durham area....
Eric Olson - Wed July 19, 2017
Brand-New Bell Trucks Put in Heavy-Duty Hours at Quarries
Hauling rock out of a quarry is about as heavy-duty as any job can get. The people that do it have to be tough and stay sharp for hours each day both to stay safe and to keep the material moving. But they also cannot accomplish their task successfully without the right kind of equipment....
Thu March 30, 2017
New Large Trucks Strengthen Bell as a Global ADT Specialist
ConExpo-Con/AGG 2017 provided an opportune platform for global Articulated Dump Truck specialist, Bell Equipment, to showcase its new E-series Large Truck range, introduced globally at the end of 2016 and represented at the show by the B45E and B60E models....
Mon March 27, 2017
Bell B20E Ventures Into New Territory
Articulated Dump Truck (ADT) specialist, Bell Equipment, has decided to extend its global product offering with a Tier 4 version of its 20-ton truck, the B20E 6×6. This model offers customers the benefit of safety and performance enhancing technologies developed by Bell over the past thirty years and further cements the ADT manufacturer as the global leader in the off road haulage market....
