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A team from 3M’s Transportation Safety Division is working its way through a 50-city North American roadshow highlighting the company’s technology and innovation.
The safety tour started in San Antonio at the end of January when the custom designed 18-wheel truck including a 16m-long trailer arrived in the Texas city. The last stop will be Saskatoon, Canada, in early October.
“Our tour will present innovative roadway and vehicle solutions to many of the problems that drivers face,” said John Riccardi, vic
New safety systems for highway work zones are helping to reduce deaths and injuries in the United States, while much work is being done in Europe to improve work zone safety. Guy Woodford reports. With more road building underway than at any one time in Texas history, the US Lone Star state’s Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is introducing its first highway safety system with queue-warning technology and temporary rumble strips to cut work zone collisions. Debuting along a central Texas stretch of the
The UK’s largest mechanical puppet, the 11m-tall Man Engine, will make a special appearance at this year’s Hillhead construction equipment exhibition.
Man Engine is powered by a Volvo L220 wheeled loader on loan from Volvo CE in the UK. It will be towering over the showgrounds during the exhibition at the Hillhead Quarry near the northern English town of Buxton June 26-28.
The Man Engine – a miner wearing a miner’s hat – was created to celebrate the history of mining in the south-east English county o
