When Jurgen van Uijthoven needed an electric excavator for a short-term project, he knew exactly who to ask. The long-standing customer of Hitachi Construction Machinery sub-dealer Pellen BV found an ideal solution to win the tender and complete the work.
VSS Macropaver has released a number of new products at CONEXPO-CON/AGG, with the Macropaver 12E the centre of attention. The Macropaver was first devised as a rugged and reliable large production machine for slurry seal and micro-surfacing and today's Macropaver has proven to be one of the fastest, most flexible and cost-effective machines in the road maintenance industry.
Results from a project by the UK’s department of transport and AECOM – using Heads-Up technology from Acusensus, has underlined scale of distracted driving and lack of seatbelt use.
Kids start to complain about the amount of time in a car after two 2 and 23 minutes of driving, according to research in the UK.
Around that time, the driver will hear from the back seat the first of a long list of complaints: “Are we nearly there yet?”
And by 2 hours and 37 minutes, angry rows have broken out.
These squabbles are almost inevitable, noted the study from the UK’s Highways England. Nearly 80% of families say kids quarrel during long-distance summer trips.
Many parents said this ha
