A 50-tonne prototype dump truck is the centrepiece of Bell’s impressive stand at INTERMAT 2015 and offers a real glimpse of the heavy construction industry’s future.
One of the first new Hitachi Zaxis-5 models in Germany is available as part of official German dealer Kiesel’s rental fleet. The ZX670LCH-5 is working on a six-month assignment at one of Schön + Hippelein’s quarries, near the town of Heidenheim, to the west of Stuttgart in southern Germany. The large excavator has been drafted in to support two Hitachi ZX870H-3 loading shovels – said by Hitachi to be the first of their kind in Germany – at the Calcitwerk Heidenheim limestone quarry. It has been employed to
Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe’s (KCME) all-new Japanese-built Generation 10 series specialist excavators have arrived in Europe and will be on show at INTERMAT.
Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe’s (KCME) all-new Japanese-built Generation 10 series specialist excavators have arrived in Europe and will be on show at INTERMAT.
The authorities in the UAE have released data showing that over the past 15 years, at least 224 people were killed in crashes involving mini-vans, buses and trucks on the country’s roads. For the most part the fatalities involved workers going to, or coming back from, work and on stretches of major highways with speed limits of 100km/h. The deaths averaged 14/year. Records show the crashes were due to largely to reckless driving by the drivers of the heavy vehicles.
