Chairman's Message We Have Some Movement Very shortly after my Chairman’s Message calling for more water infrastructure funding hit the streets in March, clean water legislation was introduced in the House. Read More	Inside Washington Out of Sight Can No Longer Afford to Be Out of Mind  There is not a business, small or large, in America that can survive, let alone grow, without access to the water, electricity and gas delivered by America’s aging and sometimes failing infrastructure. Read More	Subscribe Renew or Update My FREE subscription today for Utility Contractor, as well as sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter. Sign up now.

Kubota Tractor Corp. Named ‘Dealer’s Choice’ for Second Consecutive Year
Kubota Tractor Corp. has received the No. 1 rating and Dealer's Choice Award among Tractor Manufacturers, according to the North American Equipment Dealers Association NAEDA 2014 Dealer-Manufacturer Relations Survey. This award is positive...
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Caterpillar's 'Stack' Video is Godzilla's Version of Jenga
Displaying the precision of five of its construction machines, Caterpillar launched the first in a series of Built For It Trials short videos. In the nearly 2.5 minute Stack video operators, with a combined work experience of...
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Brokk Updates its 400 Remote-Controlled Demolition Machine
The upgraded Brokk 400 remote-controlled demolition machine now features a bigger drive axis, rollers and sidetracks along with a larger undercarriage with tracks that are 10 percent longer. What does all of this mean The redesigned machine...
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Cover Story

Utilities Unearthed
With more than 19 million miles of buried utilities in the United States, there are plenty of obstacles to navigate around when performing an excavation project. While services such as One-Call are a great starting point at identifying a utility’s location, exposing a utility is the only sure way to know where that valuable infrastructure truly lies. Read more

Featured Stories

The Gold Standard
For the past 50 years, the National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) has been the leading trade association working solely for the utility construction and excavation industry. Read more

Expert Vacuum Excavation
More and more, contractors are turning to vacuum excavators to clean and remove debris created from boring projects and locating utilities. Read more

Vacuum Excavation Showcase
Vacuum excavation helps contractors safely identify a utility’s location, saving on costly damage or downtime. Here, four manufacturers highlight their vacuum excavation units. Read more

Map Quest
Buried beneath your feet is a complex system of subsurface utilities, silently supplying power and connectivity to your home, neighborhood, office, farm and every city in between. Read more

Building a Better System
Unlike service and warehouse industries, construction has many variables and moving parts. Materials of many kinds. Equipment of every sort. Main and satellite jobsites. Read more

Inside Washington

Out of Sight Can No Longer Afford to Be Out of Mind
There is not a business, small or large, in America that can survive, let alone grow, without access to the water, electricity and gas delivered by America’s aging and sometimes failing infrastructure. Read more

Safety

What is DIRT?
As utility and excavation contractors, we all know what dirt is because it is the soil we dig in all the time. However, there is another definition of dirt; one that is very important to our industry and every contractor should be familiar with it. DIRT is actually the acronym for Damage Information Reporting Tool. Read more