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Yancey Bros. Opens Yancey CAT Rental Store in Cumming, Ga.

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CEG - CJust four years ago, Yancey Bros. Co. opened a massive CAT Rental Store in Cumming, Ga. As of May 2026, this facility located at 5905 Hubbard Town Rd., Cumming, Ga., now includes a new ...

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Yancey Bros. Opens New Rental Store in Bainbridge, Ga.

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CEG - The extreme southwest corner of the state of Georgia has always been a challenge for Yancey Bros. Co. for meeting its customer's needs in the timeliest fashion from their Valdosta and Albany, Ga., locations. The decision to be where customers need it was assessed and quickly addressed with th...

Yancey Bros. Co. Hosts Technology Event

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. and its Topcon supplier, Roper Laser Company based in Marietta, Ga., held a technology demo eve...

GOMACO Appoints Yancey Bros. Co., as New Georgia Distributor

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GOMACO - GOMACO Corporation announced the recent appointment of Yancey Bros. Co. as the authorized GOMAC...

Yancey Bros. Co. Announces Leadership Change

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Yancey Bros. Co. - Yancey Bros. Co., the Nation's oldest Caterpillar dealer, announced that Trey Googe has acquired majority ownership of the company and will succeed Jim Stephenson as CEO. Goog...

Yancey Bros. Co. Joins Metso's Aggregates Distributor Network

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Metso - Metso welcomes Yancey Bros. Co., the USA's oldest Caterpillar dealer, to it...

Yancey Bros. Co. Opens Full-Service Location in Macon

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., the “Nation's Oldest Caterpillar Dealer,” has officially opened its newest full-service parts, sales and service location in Macon, Ga. The new location, at 1025 Frank Am...

Yancey Bros. Co. to Sell Full Line of Thunder Creek Equipment Construction Products

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. and Thunder Creek Equipment have reached an agreement that will make the heavy equipment dealer an official provider of Thunder Creek's products throughout Georgia. Yancey Bros. Co. will sell...

Yancey Bros. Co., SITECH Welcome Guests to Technology Day

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. and SITECH South jointly hosted a technology day at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., on Dec. 1. This was ...

Yancey Bros. Co. Event Marks Opening of CAT Rental Store

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. hosted a terrific crowd for an open house event, which marked the official opening of the McDonough, Ga., Yancey Rents — CAT Rental Store on April 14. Representatives of Yancey and Cat as well as, manufacturers of rental machines available at the location such as Husqvarna,...

Yancey Bros. Co. Hosts Open House

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. hosted more than 200 attendees at its open house event, which officially kicked off the grand opening of its newest Yancey Rents CAT Rental Store on Nov. 3 in Kennesaw, Ga. Representatives from Yancey and from Cat, as well as suppliers of rental machines from Makita, Wacker Neuso...

Yancey Bros. Co. Hosts Successful Open House Event

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. held another successful open house event at its Yancey CAT Rental Store (Yancey Rents) location in Dacula, Ga., in Gwinnett County on April 22. A crowd of rental customers, guests, and friends didn't let steady rain put a damper on the event. Guests came out to enjoy barbe...

Yancey Bros. Co. Receives Honor for Family-Owned Firms

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., the nation’s oldest Cat dealer, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Georgia Family Business of the Year Century Award, honoring a family owned business that is at least 100 years old. Now in its 24th year, the Georgia Family Business of the Year Awards is an annual event h...

Yancey Bros. Co. Kicks Off Annual Dump Hunger Drive

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CEG - On July 13, Yancey Bros. Co. kicked off its 2nd annual statewide food and fund drive, Dump Hunger, to benefit the nine regional food banks located throughout Georgia. Georgia’s regional food banks are at their lowest stock levels during the summer months when food donations fall off but foo...

Yancey Bros. Co. Hosts Open House in Savannah, Ga.

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. hosted a Savannah, Ga., parts operations open house event on April 2. Attendees stopped in to see the newly expanded parts order and pick up operation, which now consolidates parts for all of Yancey’s divisions, including construction equipment, engine, electric power and ...

Yancey Bros. Co. Celebrates ’100 Years of Building Georgia’

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. celebrated a milestone at its headquarters in Austell, Ga., May 9. The company kicked off the first of several celebrations to be held at Yancey locations across the state of Georgia in order to celebrate Yancey and to celebrate “100 Years of Building Georgia.” More t...

Yancey Bros. Co. Holds Get In, Get Real Event in Austell

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CEG - Caterpillar representatives and the “Get In, Get Real” traveling demo event made its way to Yancey Bros. Co. corporate headquarters in Austell, Ga., on May 31. This same demo also made its way to Yancey’s Albany, Savannah and Dacula, Ga., locations in May and early June. ...

Yancey Bros. Co. Offers Cat Rebuild Options at Its Facility in McDonough

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. values its customers and cares about ways to make their businesses more efficient and successful. The Yancey Rebuild Center in McDonough, Ga., opened in September 2011 with that in mind. They are performing Cat Certified Rebuilds, Certified Powertrain Plus Rebuilds and g...

Yancey Bros. Co. Hosts Machine Control Demo

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CEG - Yancy Bros. Co. hosted a machine control and guidance demonstration at the I-75 Business Park in Macon, Ga., on Dec. 2. The event allowed guests the opportunity to take advantage of a total “hands on” demonstration of some of the newest technology and equipment from Trimble and Accugr...

Yancey Bros. Co. Names Cat Vocational Truck Sales Manager

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., based in Austell, Ga., recently announced the addition of Guy Milliken to its management team for support of the new Caterpillar Vocational Truck line.Milliken joins Yancey as the Cat Vocational Truck Sales Manager and has spent the past 37 years in the trucking industry ...

Yancey Bros. Co. Appointed Ga.’s Mauldin, Weiler Dealer

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. has expanded its product offering to include the Mauldin and Weiler product lines. Yancey will be the exclusive dealer for sales, parts and service in the state of Georgia. The addition of these two lines, coupled with Caterpillar’s paving products, gives Yancey Bros. Co. a...

Yancey Bros. Co. Celebrates 90 Years in Business With Two-Day Anniversary Shindig in Austell, GA

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CEG - The nation’s oldest Caterpillar dealer, Yancey Bros. Co., celebrated its 90th anniversary April 16 to 17 at the company’s headquarters in Austell, GA. “As we celebrate 90 years of success, we also celebrate our customers, our employees and our supplier, Caterpillar,”...

Yancey Bros. Holds Round Two of Cat Operator Challenge

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CEG - Round two and the final Yancey Bros. Co. 2022 Cat Global Operator Challenge was held in ce...

Yancey Bros. Hosts 2022 Cat Global Operator Challenge

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CEG - The first of two Yancey Bros. Co. 2022 Cat Global Operator Challenges was held on the grounds of the Ca...

Yancey CAT Rental Store Holds Grand Opening

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CEG - A huge crowd rolled through Yancey's newest CAT Rental Store during a grand opening celebration event/ribbon-cutting at the all-new Cumming, Ga., facility on May 12. Cumming, Ga., is the 23rd city in Georgia in which Yancey has a facility. A ground up, purpose-built new facility, the ...

Yancey Truck Centers Feature Nikola Vehicles at Georgia Ride & Drive Event

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CEG - Yancey Truck Centers, a division of Yancey Bros. Co., hosted a "ride and drive" event in Austell, Ga., April 27 featuring the Nikola TRE Battery Electric Vehicle ...

McLendon Enterprises Upgrades Hillcrest Parkway

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Crews from McLendon Enterprises Inc. broke ground on the city of Dublin's $12,105,455.90 Hillcrest Parkway on Dec. 27, 2019, a project that should be delivered in 28 months. "The project has been described by city officials as the most needed and most ambitious projects for Dublin in ...

Yancey Bros. Holds Grand Opening of Its CAT Rental Store

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. hosted a great crowd to the grand opening celebration of its newest CAT Rental Store...

Crews Widening, Reconstructing One of Oldest Routes On East Coast

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), via a $62.9 million project, is widening and reconstructing 9.403 mi. of on U.S. 1/SR 4 beginning south of SR 147 (Plant Hatch) and extending south of George Hill Road (CR 106). The contract for the project, taking place in Appling and Toom...

CMES Inc. Expects To Complete SR 360 Reconstruction By 2022

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - The Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) $66.7 million reconstruction and widening of SR 360 from SR 176/New Macland Road near Marietta in Cobb County to SR 120/Charles Hardy Parkway near Dallas in Paulding County began last summer and is expected to be delivered by CMES Inc....

Family, Fairness, Skill Spur Growth for Newnan Firm

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - In May 2006, Scott Stokes founded Southeastern Site Development Inc. (SESD), a heavy civil/infrastructure general contracting firm in Newnan, Ga. Today, his firm is recognized as one of the city of Atlanta's premier road building, site development, excavation, utilities, stru...

Crews Add New Lanes, Bridge to SR 142

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - By the end of May, crews from Southeastern Site Development Inc. (SSD) will have delivered the Georgia Department of Transportation's $14 million project to widen 2.5 mi. of State Route 142 from FM I-20 to Alcovy Road in Covington, including the widening of a 112-ft. long bri...

Yancey Bros. Hosts End-Of-Year Used Equipment Event in Austell, Georgia

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CEG - As is the case with Caterpillar dealers from across the country, Yancey Bros. Co. hosted a...

Trainers Provide Excavator, Dozer Demonstrations at Yancey Bros., Sitech South Technology Day in Georgia

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CEG - In a series of demonstration and educational events, Yancey Bros. Co. and Sitech South held the...

Yancey, Sitech South Hosts Technology Day Event in Austell

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. and Sitech South held a Technology Day event Sept. 13, 2018, at Yancey's n...

International Paper's Cat 990H Reaches Big Milestone

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CEG - Willie Keen is responsible for everything with wheels as the mobile equipment owner and manager of International Paper in Oglethorpe, Ga. He has been with the company, which is one of the world's leading producers of fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper, for 38 years. In 2007, he was...

Goodloe Harper Yancey III Passes Away at Age 89

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CEG - Goodloe Harper Yancey III, chairman emeritus and third dealer principal, Yancey Bros., died Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018. Born Sept. 13, 1928, in Albany, Ga., Mr. Yancey's Caterpillar career began in Albany where his uncle, Earle Yancey, and his father, L.D. Yancey, operated Yancey Tr...

Yancey Bros Co. Welcomes Guests to New Macon Facility

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. hosted more than 750 of its customers and friends to the brand-new Macon, Ga., facility for a grand opening and ribbon cutting event on Friday, March 9th. In addition to some uplifting speeches f...

Adamo Demos Georgia Dome in Downtown ATL

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Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Brought in from Detroit, Mich., by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority (GWCCA) to demolish its 71,000-seat Georgia Dome, the Adamo Demolition Company perfectly executed the implosion of the stadium — in 12 seconds — that was built in 1992 as the home stadium for the Atlanta Fa...

U.S. Chamber Board Elects Stephenson as Vice Chairman

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CEG - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's board of directors elected James E. Stephenson, chairman and CEO of Yancey Bros., as its vice chairman. Stephenson succeeds Thomas J. Wilson, chairman and CEO of The Allstate Corporation, who is assuming the role of chairman. Stephenson will serve a one-year ter...

Fire-Damaged I-85 Overpass to Open Ahead of Schedule

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Eric Olson - To the long-suffering commuters of Atlanta, the crews working to replace a damaged section of I-85 in just two months must seem like superheroes. On March 30, a roaring blaze broke out during rush hour under an overpass of northbound I-85 at Piedmont Road, resulting in the collapse of the...

IronPlanet to Leverage Innovative Technologies and Real-time Mobile Capabilities for On-site Events

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CEG - IronPlanet, a leading online marketplace for selling and buying used equipment and other durable assets, today announced details and new technology innovations for its upcoming Florida Cat Auction Services Unreserved...

CEG Launches Online Used Equipment Buying, Selling Platform

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CEG - In a world fueled by smart phones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers, it's never been easier to buy virtually anything online — all by just the simple click of a button.Now, due to a new online purchasing platform offered by Construction Equipment Guide (CEG), you can buy an...

Yancey CAT Deploys SmartEquip for Store Operations

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CEG - Yancey CAT, the nation's oldest Caterpillar dealer located in Austell Ga., has recently completed the implementation of SmartEquip technology for use by the company's Cat Rental Store locations. By utilizing SmartEquip's Enterprise application, Yancey will be able to automate service ...

Yancey Bros. Cat Implements SmartEquip for Cat Rental Store Operations

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CEG - Yancey Cat, the nation's oldest Caterpillar dealer located in Austell Georgia, has recently completed the implementation of SmartEquip technology for use by their Cat Rental Store locations.By utilizing SmartEquip's Enterprise application Yancey will be able to automate service pro...

Yancey CAT Hosts Open House

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CEG - A great crowd of rental customers, guests and friends converged on the Yancey CAT Rental Store in Austell, Ga., on April 14 for an open house event. The good weather during the event provided an opportunity for attendees to view outdoor exhibits and check out some of the rental products available...

Bandit Industries Adds Three New Dealers to Network

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CEG - Bandit Industries continues to add to its network of dealers in North America with the addition...

Nation’s Oldest Cat Dealer Announces Key Leadership Appointment

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., the nation’s oldest Caterpillar dealer, has appointed Trey Googe...

JM Wood Hosts Successful Annual Summer Auction

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CEG - JM Wood Auction Company Inc. held another successful annual summer construction, truck, agricultural and forestry machine auction, at its headquarters facility in Montgomery, Ala., on June 3 to 6. The sale was held for Joe McGee Construction, SMC Services, Flint Equipment Co., Yancey Bros. Co., D...

Yancey Bros. Hosts Open House Event in McDonough, Ga.

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. hosted an open house event at the company’s Yancey Surplus and Used location in McDonough, Ga., on March 28. The event was held to showcase how Yancey has brought together used equipment, used parts and rebuilds at one location in metro Atlanta, Ga. Additionally, the event ...

JM?Wood Sells More Than $36.1M of Equipment During Annual Spring Auction

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CEG - JM Wood Auction held its 41st annual spring construction, truck and forestry auction at its headquarters facility in Montgomery, Ala., March 11 to 13. More than $36.1 million of equipment sold and was represented by many dealers including Blanchard Machinery, Flint Equipment, Taylor Servi...

Advanced Rental Forms Beneficial Alliance With Yancey, Cat

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CEG - After spending years in the equipment rental business, Gary Bonds, owner of Advanced Rental Center in Canton, Ga., is confident his latest endeavor will be as successful as past ventures. His career began in 1975 as a sales rep of Wacker and his experience led him to start up his own rental compa...

Yancey Bros. Helps Strack Expand, Replenish Fleet

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CEG - Strack Inc., a pipeline and site development business in Georgia, turned to its Cat dealer for equipment that would provide the best return on investment when it was time to replenish and expand its fleet.The company, considered a major player in the trending pipeline business across the s...

Yancey Truck Centers Acquires International Truck Dealership

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., announces they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the operating assets of Mays International Trucks in Augusta, Ga., effective January 31, 2012. Under the terms of the agreement, Yancey Truck Centers will assume all International Truck sales, service and parts ...

Yancey Bros. Delivers First Cat Vocational Truck in Ga.

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CEG - When the announcement was made that Caterpillar would begin manufacturing its own line of vocational trucks, it didn’t take too much time for a long-time Cat supplier to step up and place an order. Ranew’s Trucking, a division of Ranew’s Companies of Milner, Ga., is a su...

Bud Wilfore, Yancey Bros. COO, Announces Retirement Plans

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CEG - Bud Wilfore, Yancey Bros. Co.’s Chief Operating Officer, recently advised the company’s Board of Directors’s of his plans to retire at the end of January, 2012. Wilfore began his Caterpillar Dealer career in 1974 as a Management Trainee at Carter Machinery Company, the Caterpill...

Yancey Bros. Hosts Cat Truck Event at Its Austell Facility

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CEG - Caterpillar’s first-ever on-highway truck model rolled onto the showroom floor at Yancey Bros. Co.’s Austell, Ga., headquarters on July 22. Contractors and trucking firm representatives turned out in droves with approximately 300 attending the preview of the new Cat CT660 which was he...

Yancey Bros. Names Armstrong Used Equipment Manager

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., based in Austell, Ga., recently named Larry Armstrong as its Used Equipment Manager. Armstrong brings approximately 30 years of experience in the equipment industry to his new position. Early in his career, Armstrong joined Construction Equipment Sales, the South C...

C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Purchases First Cat D7E in Ga.

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CEG - C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc recently purchased the first Caterpillar D7E AC electric drive track-type tractor sold in Georgia. The sale marks only the second D7E sold in the southeast with US Steel in Tallahassee, Fla., purchasing the first one. After delivery of the machine, Yancey ...

Alan Wilbert Joins Cowin Equipment Company in Atlanta

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CEG - Cowin Equipment Company recently expanded its staff at the Mableton (Atlanta), Ga., branch with the addition of Alan Wilbert, as rental sales representative. Wilbert started his career in construction equipment sales and rentals in 1997 when he joined US Rentals/United Rentals.“I sta...

Cats Help Launch New Fishing, Boating Ramp Into Place

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CEG - Troup County, Ga., boaters and anglers have a new spot to ply their trade these days, due to the combined efforts of the Go Fish Georgia Initiative and a team of Cat bulldozers at West Point Lake.The initiative was developed to improve access to Georgia waters, increase fishing participati...

Food, Fun, Iron Mark Yancey Open House in Kennesaw, Ga.

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. held an open house Nov. 13 at its Kennesaw, Ga., branch location.A cool, but otherwise comfortable sunny day created a pleasant backdrop for customers, friends and family as they strolled around the grounds and facility checking out all that Yancey Bros. has to offer and m...

Yancey Bros. Hosts Cat D7E Electric Drive Dozer Demos

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. recently hosted two demos of the new Cat D7E electric drive dozer. More than 30 contractors turned out at Yancey’s Macon, Ga., location and more than 45 came to the Dacula, Ga., location to see the machine in action and try it for themselves. Bob Powers, a profession...

Yancey Observes 95th Anniversary; Plans for Growth Past 100

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CEG - The “Nation’s Oldest Caterpillar Dealer” moved one year closer to reaching the century mark when Yancey Bros. Co. celebrated its 95th birthday this year. Founded in 1914 by brothers Goodloe and Earle Yancey, Yancey Bros. Co. began as the Yancey Hardware Company, selling ...

C.W. Matthews Leads Large Scale I-75 Project in Georgia

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Zoie Clift - The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is in the midst of a large-scale construction project on I-75 in Morrow with the goal of reducing traffic congestion and preparing the community for future growth.According to Richard Stanley, project manager of GDOT, the project, which start...

Yancey Opens New Kennesaw Building Construction Products Location

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., recently opened a new facility in Kennesaw, Ga., focused on providing parts, service, sales and rental for building construction products customers.Located at 2689 Barrett Lakes Blvd., at the corner of Barrett Lakes Boulevard and Duncan Road near Kennesaw State University...

N.J. Wilbanks Has Developed Cherokee County for 50 Years

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CEG - Family businesses pride themselves on passing the operation down from generation to generation, and Cherokee County’s N.J. Wilbanks Contractor Inc. is no exception.Celebrating 50 years in the clearing and grading business, the third generation of Wilbanks continues to prosper in nort...

Product Demonstration ’Shingles’ Out Peterson Grinder

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. showcased an increasingly popular trend in the asphalt industry June 25 at a product demonstration in Dallas, Ga. As part of a national tour, a Peterson 4700B horizontal recycler stopped by BLD Inert Landfill to churn through a heap of roof shingles. The ground-up s...

No R&R for Little R Site Prep Amid Spike in Mulching Work

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CEG - Clearing land in Georgia has been evolving over the last few years. In the past, clearing land consisted of cutting trees and brush, pushing all the debris into piles and burning it. But now, faced with environmental concerns on top of the drought conditions that exist in most Georgia coun...

Chattahoochee Students Learn Skills in Cat Loader

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CEG - Chattahoochee Technical College has a new machine to help prepare its students for a career in environmental horticulture. Instructor Bejie Herrin has added a Caterpillar 257B multi-terrain loader to the one-year-old program’s fleet, purchased from Yancey Bros. Co.Approximatel...

Cat Clocks 10,000 Hours for Tire Recycler

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CEG - Jackson, Ga., native Doug Bernhardt will say that reliability and top-notch equipment are the keys to his successful tire recycling business. He sees the value in investing in the best employees, machines and equipment, from the computer-controlled, touch screen equipment that is used in t...

Crews Monitor Water Quality at Interchange Job

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Matthew Willett - The Cherokee darter is a tiny fish, less than 3 in. long, found nowhere in the world outside the Etowah River basin; it’s been listed as a threatened species since 1995.So when the Georgia Department of Transportation let the contract for interchange reconstruction at I-575 and Ga. H...

AccuGrade Key Component to Lock’s Dozing’s Success

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CEG - Rodney Lock has seen less competition for jobs since he started using Caterpillar’s AccuGrade GPS and laser technology. “Many times I don’t even get bid against because of the accuracy that this system provides,” said the owner of Lock’s Dozing Inc. in Dalton,...

Two Promoted at Yancey Bros.

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. has promoted Stan Lassiter to vice president of sales support and Vic Morris to vice president of parts and service.During the past decade Lassiter and Morris have played major roles in providing leadership and support to Yancey’s success during a period of tremendou...

Yancey Bros. Demonstrates Cat’s AccuGrade System

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CEG - With a few twists of a socket wrench, a Caterpillar machine can be catapulted into the next level of job site technology. The Atlanta-based Yancey Bros. Co. recently hosted a hands-on demonstration of AccuGrade technology at a job site in McDonough, GA, where construction crews are clearin...

GUCA Elects New President at Annual Conference

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CEG - More than 280 Georgia Utility Contractors Association (GUCA) members, family members, and guests gathered at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, for the 2005 GUCA Annual Conference. The event marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. During the confere...

Yancey Bros. Honored for Emphasis on Marketplace Ethics

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CEG - The Better Business Bureau (BBB) serving Metro Atlanta, Athens and Northeast Georgia has selected Yancey Bros. Co., Georgia’s Caterpillar dealer, as one of four recipients of the “2005 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.”The BBB Torch Awar...

Yancey Bros. Turned Picks, Shovels Into Thriving Dealership

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Pete Sigmund - Yancey Bros. Co., which celebrated its 90th anniversary in April, has progressed from the days of picks and shovels to one of the nation’s leading Caterpillar dealers, as well as the oldest one. Brothers Goodloe H. Yancey, Jr. and B. Earle Yancey founded the company in 1914 as Yance...

Satellites, Software Render Iron Service Data in Minutes

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Pete Sigmund - A quiet revolution is taking place in equipment management.Advanced satellite-aided computer maintenance systems can now monitor entire fleets — picking out which units need servicing — and even compare the productivity of different operators. This allows equipment managers at ...

Yancey Bros. to Open Two New Cat Rental Stores by Year’s End

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., Georgia’s Caterpillar equipment dealer since 1914, has announced plans to open new branch operations of The Cat Rental Store in both Augusta and Calhoun. This will bring the current number of rental facilities operated by Yancey to nine in Georgia.Yancey introduc...

Yancey Bros. Treats Customers to Lunch and More

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co. sales reps promised their customers a barbecue lunch as part of its “Customer Appreciation Day,” but the folks from across northwest Georgia who traveled to Calhoun on Sept. 24 got a lot more than well cooked pork and fellowship. Yancey put out a large display ...

Yancey Bros. Sets Out to Prove Hay Balers Aren’t Just For Farmers Anymore

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CEG - On Aug. 19, Yancey Bros. Co. showed off its latest agricultural product offerings, including several new B-Series Challenger tractors and hay-baling equipment, during its “Hay Day” event in northern Forsyth County.More than 125 customers, both traditional earthmoving customers ...

Reservoir Quenches Thirst of GA Community

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Kerry Lynn Kirby - At one time, it was merely a stretch of typical rural timberland. But by next spring, 1,466 acres of Henry County, GA, will be transformed into a desperately needed source of fresh drinking water for residents and businesses in the rapidly growing area. According to Henry County Water and ...

Stockbridge Bottleneck Fix Forges Ahead With GDOT Incentive Plan

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Kerry Lynn Kirby - As a resident of Henry County, GA, Bert Brantley knows firsthand how badly the Interstate 75/Eagle’s Landing Parkway interchange in Stockbridge needs the $24 million upgrading project in progress there. “There’s just too much traffic for the number of lanes now,” sa...

Yancey Bros. Shows Off Cats During Two Mower Demo Days

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., Georgia’s Caterpillar dealer, displayed and demonstrated new machines and mower configurations at two “Mower Demo Days” for municipalities and power utilities throughout the state. A variety of Caterpillar, Fendt and Challenger machines and mowers, from light b...

Yancey Names New Positions

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., the Caterpillar equipment dealer for Georgia based in Austell, recently has announced the management promotions of John Faress and Kerry Glass. Additionally, Dan Suchan has joined the company as General Manger of The Cat Rental Store. Faress was recently promoted to the p...

Yancey Bros. Covers Entire State of GA With Carlton Company Purchase

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CEG - James E. Stephenson, president and chief executive officer of Yancey Bros. Co., the “nation’s oldest Caterpillar dealer” serving north Georgia for more than 80 years, announced Dec. 13, the successful acquisition of the operating assets of Carlton Company, south Georgia’s ...

Yancey Signs Letter for Carlton Co. Assets

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CEG - Yancey Bros. Co., the Caterpillar dealership serving the northern half of Georgia, announced on Monday, Oct. 7, that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire certain assets of Carlton Company, the Albany, GA,-based Caterpillar dealership that serves the southern half of Georgia. Th...

Yancey Employees Pay Tribute to Victims, Heroes of 9/11

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CEG - The employees of Yancey Bros. Co., the Caterpillar equipment dealer based in Atlanta, GA, put more than 1,000 American flags along the street in front of the company’s Corporate Campus on September 11. The flags were displayed as the employees way of showing gratitude and respect for...

GUCA Hosts 2002 Spring Quarterly Meeting, Show

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CEG - Georgia Utility Contractors Association Inc. (GUCA) hosted its 2002 Spring Quarterly Meeting, Trade Show and Career Fair Thursday, April 4, 2002 at the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot in downtown Atlanta. More than 180 attendees met for the event that included a sold-out trade show and keynote pre...

Callaway Earns Special Certification

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CEG - Mark Callaway, supervisor of the fluid analysis laboratory at Yancey Bros. Co., has recently been accredited by the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) with its “Oil Monitoring Analyst I” certification. Callaway’s accreditation makes Yancey the fourth Caterp...

DeKalb Tech Teaches Operators the Ropes

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CEG - The Covington-Newton Campus of DeKalb Technical College announced a new program of study — Heavy Equipment Operator (HEO) — at a ceremony held recently. Dr. Paul Starnes, president of DeKalb Technical College, welcomed representatives of the Georgia Utility Contractor Association (GUC...

Yancey Bros., Georgia Southern Pave Way for Students

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Sheila Irvine - It used to be that apprenticeships prepared young people for a career in construction, starting, literally, from the ground up, pouring concrete and hanging drywall. In some places, particularly in unionized areas, this still happens, but the young people in these apprenticeship programs ...

Yancey Expands Network With 3 New Cat Rental Stores

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CEG - The Cat Rental Store, a division of Yancey Bros. Co., has recently opened three new facilities in the northern half of Georgia. These facilities, located in Kennesaw, Cumming, and Columbus, have been opened in high growth areas and are just another way for Yancey to quickly serve its customers&#...