Wed August 30, 2000

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....

Wed August 30, 2000

International Combines Assembly, Service for 5000i Truck

The International brand has a new vehicle to drive construction customer profits over the life of the product: the International 5000i integrated dump truck, a concurrently engineered, assembled, marketed, sold and supported dump truck....

Wed August 09, 2000

Airport Site Requires Delicate Maneuvering by Teer Crews

The airport serving the Raleigh-Durham, NC, area is sprawled on acreage between two east-west highways that funnel traffic to it and past it. Interstate 40 on the south and NC Hwy. 70 on the north are clogged with vehicles at least twice a day Hundreds of those that veer off the main flow of traffic enter airport authority property and go … where? Some, of course, drop off or pick up passengers of airlines that fly planes in and out of the airport....

Wed August 02, 2000

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....

Sat July 29, 2000

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....

Wed June 14, 2000

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....

Wed May 17, 2000

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....

Wed May 10, 2000

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....

Wed April 26, 2000

Anderson Takes on Rosco Water Trucks

Anderson/Rupp Equipment Co. is now renting and selling Rosco DS water trucks. Standing in front of the Rosco 7,570-liter (2,000 gal.) water truck are Peter Fletcher (L) and Steve Kenney, both of Anderson Equipment’s, Albany, NY, branch....

Wed March 15, 2000

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....