Volvo - Tue June 19, 2018
VIDEO: Volvo CE Tests Safety Concepts With Colas
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is collaborating with its customer Colas on a research project that has seen the company develop and test a range of concepts and prototypes that contribute towards improved work site safety....
Highway Equiment & Supply - Mon June 11, 2018
Highway Equipment Puts Students to the Test at SkillsUSA
SkillsUSA Pennsylvania held its annual state competition on April 19, 2018. Highway Equipment & Supply Co. provided Volvo heavy construction equipment (HCE) for the HCE operators competition at Fort Indiantown Gap in Annville, Pa., and a Volvo excavator for the electrical diagnosis station of the diesel technology competition at the Lebanon Fairgrounds, in Lebanon, Pa....
Volvo - Thu June 07, 2018
Volvo Pushes Load Assist Real-Time On-Board Weighing Accuracy to +/- 1 Percent
Volvo Construction Equipment has updated the load assist application for its L110H to L260H wheel loaders and, together with a new version of the Android platform, operators will now get real-time information on every bucket's load within ± 1 percent accuracy....
Sondra Rossi – CEG EDITORIAL ASSISTANT - Wed June 06, 2018
Transforming a Tree Farm to a Successful Stone, Gravel Biz
How many small business owners can relate to what life was like when you were a young entrepreneur with an incredible idea? You had the business plan in place, but you needed the means to make it happen....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Wed May 23, 2018
Downtown Winston-Salem's Business 40 Seeing $99 Million Makeover
Winston-Salem, N.C., has been undergoing a major transformation for 25 years. Once known primarily as home to one of the world's largest manufacturers of cigarettes and other tobacco products, this dynamic mid-size city of 243,000 people is now regarded more for being a center of emerging technologies and a home to one of the South's most exciting and diverse arts communities....
Mon May 14, 2018
Changes in Volvo CE Dealer Network Reflect Company's Strategy
Volvo Construction Equipment's (Volvo CE) North American dealer network has seen a number of changes over the last year. Dealerships have changed hands, territories have expanded and new players have emerged on the scene to sell the company's premium equipment and offer its services....
Thu May 03, 2018
Top Five Tech to Make Construction Easier
The complex nature of construction sites means they can be a health and safety nightmare – electricity cables, moving objects, working at height, not to mention the multiple movements of some serious heavy construction equipment....
Volvo - Thu April 26, 2018
Volvo Construction Equipment Unveils LC450H Landfill Compactor at WasteExpo
Volvo Construction Equipment has long been committed to the waste and recycling industry with wheel loaders, excavators, haul trucks and attachments. Now, Volvo has applied that industry and equipment expertise to the development of the LC450H landfill compactor, the company's first purpose-built landfill compactor for the North American market....
Mon April 23, 2018
Construction Safety: Deadly Serious
In 2016, there were 991 fatal injuries in the U.S. construction industry — equating to one in five of all worker deaths in the country. The leading causes of deaths were falls, followed by being hit by an object, electrocution and getting caught, crushed or struck by collapsing structure, materials or equipment....
Volvo - Tue April 10, 2018
International Launch of Volvo Rigid Hauler Range
Volvo Construction Equipment unveiled its new range of Volvo-branded rigid haulers to customers and dealers at the company's Motherwell facility in Scotland. Guests got their first glimpse of the new machines — which consist of the R45D, R60D, R70D and the flagship R100E — on April 10....
