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.

Hyundai Unveils R35Z-9 Tier 4 Final Compact Excavator
For many CONEXPO-CON AGG attendees the show provided their first glimpse of the Hyundai R35Z-9 compact excavator. The R35Z-9 is Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas Inc's Tier 4 final earth mover designed for tight, confined job sites such...
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Ditch Witch Dealers Receive Crescent Club Top 10 Membership
Ditch Witch recently announced the 10 recipients of the company's top dealrship honor, the Crescent Club Top 10 membership. Recipients of the 2013 Crescent Club Top 10 memberships are Ditch Witch of Oklahoma & Arkansas Edmond and...
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Cool Tool of the Day: Bradco Quik Pik Multi-Purpose Grapple
Paladin Attachments has partnered with Star Hill Solutions Inc. to introduce the new Bradco Quik Pik Multi-Purpose Grapple for skid steers. This unique multi-purpose grapple tool is versatile enough to manage brush, logs, hay bales, rocks and pipe...
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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