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Elliott Equipment’s new 40.8tonne boom truck is permit-free.
At Conexpo on Thursday, the company unveiled the 45142 boom truck, which does not require a federal permit in any of the 50 US states.
“It’s a significant feature,” said David Phillips, manager of global business development and marketing at Elliott. Removing and redistributing weight made the permit-free feature possible, Phillips said.
The 45142 is designed to mount on a five-axle chassis. Total weight comes in just under 30,000kg and include
Trimble has developed an array of smart solutions for GPS machine control applications, which can now be installed on a wide variety of machines from different manufacturers. The company has long had a close relationship with Caterpillar but can also install units on machines from a range of manufacturers including Case, John Deere, Komatsu, Liebherr, Roadtec and Volvo. The firm's range has developed beyond just the GPS hardware though and includes sophisticated software, which can be loaded onto a hand-hel
Since the new Hitachi Zaxis-5 range was launched at Intermat in April 2012, the ZX250LC-5, ZX290LC-5 and ZX350LC-5 medium excavators, and ZX670LCH-5 and ZX870LCH-5 large machines have been delivered to a wide range of customers for their first assignments all over Europe by Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) (HCME). One of the first machines put to work was a ZX250LC-5 working for Trafikk & Anlegg AS on the E18 road construction project between Sandefjord and Tønsberg in Norway. Andres Sœtre has 30 yea
Britain’s Civil Engineering Contractors Association has warned of declining infrastructure workloads despite indications that the UK is climbing slowly out of the global economic downturn.
The slump in infrastructure workloads is a “surprise”, according to a statement by the CECA.
The CECA survey of companies that build and maintain the UK’s vital transport and power networks also comes just as the government launched the National Infrastructure Commission to oversee more than €140 billion of spending o
