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| | | | | | | Thursday, September 02, 2010 | 8:49:16 PM
Transportation, Business Community Coalitions Join Forces to Push for Action on Overdue Highway, Transit Bill
“Sick of Aging Roads? Sick of Bus Delays? Sick of Congestion? —Tell Congress to Act!”
Those are the messages appearing on highway billboard and print ads in key states, and being delivered by thousands of grassroots activists who are urging Congress to complete work on the long overdue, multi-year highway/transit authorization bill.
The Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-led Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM), two national groups advocating for significant new investments in transportation improvements, are working together to elevate infrastructure issues on the congressional legislative calendar this year.
Click to Read More | Transportation, Business Community Coalitions Join Forces to Push for Action on Overdue Highway, Transit Bill
JCB Pledges $250,000 Worth of Support for Pakistani Flood Victims
JCB Chairman Sir Anthony Bamford today pledged assistance worth $250,000 to help in the reconstruction effort in the wake of the devastating floods in Pakistan.
He is donating two high specification 4CX backhoe loaders with attachments to the stricken country where the worst floods in decades have left millions people homeless and where rebuilding costs are expected to be in the region of $17 billion.
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Case Sponsors Annual National Gas Rodeo
Case Construction Equipment is sponsoring the 16th Annual National Gas Rodeo. The competition will be held Sept. 17 to 18, 2010, in Fairview Heights, Ill. Case will be the exclusive provider of construction equipment for the event, which includes backhoe loader and compact excavators.
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Support for Schools That Teach Construction Skills Will Cut High National Dropout Rate
High school dropout rates now reaching 80 percent in some cities could be cut significantly if federal and state education officials do more to develop public schools that teach skills like construction, the president of the Associated General Contractors of America said.
Click to Read More | Support for Schools That Teach Construction Skills Will Cut High National Dropout Rate
DeWitt Thompson III Dies at Age 92
DeWitt Clinton Thompson died the morning of Aug. 23, 2010, in his sleep at his home. Born Sept. 18, 1917, to Mary Gibson Thompson and DeWitt C. Thompson Jr., he also was preceded by his sister, Sue Thompson Fort.
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Terex Welcomes Wood’s CRW Corp. as New Compact Equipment Distributor
Wood’s CRW Corp. now distributes the full line of Terex compact construction equipment to customers in central New York, as well as Terex compact track loaders in Vermont and Northeastern New York counties.
Click to Read More | Terex Welcomes Wood’s CRW Corp. as New Compact Equipment Distributor
CEG Special Feature Report
Managing Key to a Firm’s Emergence From a Recession
Author: Giles Lambertson
(Editor’s note: This article is the final installment in a series on the nation’s and world’s current economic conditions. Over the past several weeks, Construction Equipment Guide (CEG) interviewed experts in economics and business, and even psychology, and reported on how the industry veterans are coping, and in some instances, succeeding in this downturn.