Wed July 14, 2004
Groff’s Personnel Changes Focus on Customer Service in PA
Groff Tractor, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, PA, has announced recent personnel changes. John Ehrin has been hired as the company's compact equipment territory manager for western Pennsylvania. Terry Wilhelm, Jeff Hood and Brett Schultz has have been hired as account managers and Steve Weikert has been promoted to regional sales manager....
Sat May 22, 2004
McAllister Expands Volvo Offerings With Compact Line
McAllister Equipment Co. announced it has expanded its product offering to include the Volvo compact equipment product line. For years, McAllister has represented Volvo’s heavy product line, including wheel loaders, articulated haulers, excavators and motorgraders....
Mon April 12, 2004
Fort Myers Dealer Proves Rock Solid at Youngquist Quarry
If there are two men in Florida who know equipment, those two men are Harvey and Tim Youngquist, the founders of Youngquist Brothers Inc. In 1971, straight out of high school, the brothers established their own drilling business....
Wed March 24, 2004
Westchester Tractor Helps Silver Lake Get Into ’High Gear’
“Neither snow nor sleet nor gloom of night stop these men from their appointed rounds” is a revised version of the words by Herodotus in the fifth century B.C. that aptly describe the dedication of John Amodeo and his crew....
Craig Mongeau - Wed February 25, 2004
Aquatic Resource Reclaims 300-Acre Sand, Gravel Mine
Aquatic Resource Restoration Company (ARRC), of Seven Valleys, PA, is changing the landscape in Maryland — literally. Founded in 2001, the company performs restoration design and construction for many different types of water resource projects....
Tue February 24, 2004
Eagles Cheerleaders Sign On for Philly Expo
Negotiations almost broke down at the last minute. Just as our prospective guests were about to sign the contract to appear at the Philadelphia Construction Expo V, their attorneys requested lavish personal dressing rooms at the Fort Washington Expo Center....
Wed September 24, 2003
MD’s Folcomer Equipment Caters to Both Large and Small Contractors
At first glance, Folcomer Equipment of Aberdeen, MD, may not look like a catering business, but it is. It caters to the needs of its customers by supplying construction equipment that they need to get the job done....
Fri December 26, 2003
Caterpillar 246 “Steer” Now Runs With the Bulls
What’s one of the fastest growing indoor sports in North America — one that requires a unique machine to smooth out the arena’s playing surface during a break in the action?
Thinking hockey? Thinking Zamboni? Think again.
The sport is bull riding, and what better equipment is there to push dirt at intermission than a state-of-the-art Caterpillar machine, particularly the 246 skid steer loader?
That’s what Caterpillar Building Construction Products Division Marketing Representative Jason Becker thought in 2002 as he sat through his first Professional Bull Riders (PBR) event, courtesy of fellow Cat employees Brad Van De Veer and Marty Dains.
Becker said, “All during the event there was a machine parked outside the ring, and during intermission it came in to rake the dirt — much like a Zamboni cleans up the ice during a hockey game....
Wed December 24, 2003
Athletic Services Rounds Third On Phillies’ Clearwater Ballpark Project
When Ray Kinsella heard the words “If you build it, they will come,” the Iowa farmer plowed through his corn to construct a baseball field.
The 1989 movie Field of Dreams and Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, left to the imagination what Athletic Services is making a reality at the new spring training facility of the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, FL....
Fri December 05, 2003
Bobcat A300 Slims SC Site Management Firm’s Monthly Costs
Construction site cleanup contractor Henry Evans is putting an extra $300 to $400 in his pocket every month.
That’s what he was spending to replace tires on his previous skid steer loader, which was doing work that required a lot of quick tread-wearing turns on paved surfaces....
