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Wed December 06, 2000

Guillo Leans on Volvo, Malvese for Continuing Success

Paul R. Guillo, president and CEO of the Guillo Construction Corporation, started his small excavating business 30 years ago, which has expanded over the years to become a giant in the industry. The success of running such a large enterprise — which includes landscape, material production and processing, commercial and residential excavating and drainage, trucking, roll-off service, demolition, masonry and swimming pool construction and service — depends heavily upon the purchase and maintenance of a large reliable fleet of quality equipment and trucks, not to mention a hardworking, dedicated professional management team, office staff and a core group of talented employees....

Sheila Irvine - Wed July 12, 2000

Volvo Technology Keeps Tabs on Machines

You rent equipment to a contractor or you are a contractor with more than one job site in the works at a time. Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall, so to speak, and watch how the operators of that equipment are treating it? Are they letting the machine run idle (using up hours that count toward downtime maintenance costs and wear and tear), or are they revving the engines too much? You can’t be in two or more places at once to monitor your equipment’s use — or can you? With Volvo Construction Equipment North America Inc.’s new Matris system you can — at least, virtually, you can....