When watching a jobsite from afar, the equipment moves about almost as if it were rehearsed. Loaders roll into piles of dirt, while excavators glide through the ground and empty big buckets into trucks.
In early 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cited national unemployment numbers were around 5.5 percent, while the construction industry unemployment rate hovered at nearly twice as much at 10.6 percent.
Each jobsite presents new challenges — there may be land to clear and existing structures and foundations to remove. There’s typically a need for compaction, either in trenches or on surrounding slopes.
Running any business, especially a construction company, is a lot like juggling — managing aspects such as time, finances and employees — hoping not to drop the ball, so to speak.
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The New Year always presents an ideal opportunity for businesses of all sizes to evaluate their operations and make any adjustments necessary to ensure continued success. As we continue on in 2015, there are tremendous opportunities for sustained growth and enhanced profitability for the compact equipment industry.
Atlas Copco recently launched an employee-led sustainability program — called Blue is the New Green — to reduce its resource consumption on a global scale.
On the heels of JCB’s best year ever in North America, the company recently hosted a record-setting 200 construction equipment dealer sales personnel from the United States and Canada for its “Power Up” training event.
The NUCA of the Carolinas Safety and Risk Management Committee hosted a blasting class Jan. 25, sponsored by Carolina CAT and BRS Inc.
Mike and Heather Morehouse may have taken a narrow view of the market when they founded Davids Hydro Vac in 2009 in White Bear Lake, Minn., but their disciplined focus on providing hydroexcavation and vacuuming services has resulted in a broad range of customers and a successful, fast-growing business.