Jun 25, 2013
Granite Contracting Relies on Carolina CAT Partnership
A partnership over a decade long bears fruit on some high profile projects....
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Eric Olson
CEG Correspondent
A writer and contributing editor for CEG since 2008, Eric Olson has worked in the news-gathering business for 45 years.
Olson grew up in the small town of Lenoir, N.C. in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he began covering sports for the local newspaper at age 18. He continued to do that for several other dailies in the area while in college at Appalachian State University. Following his graduation, he worked for, among other companies, the Winston-Salem Journal, where he wrote and edited the newspaper's real estate and special features sections for 10 years. Since 1999 he has worked as a corporate media liaison and freelance writer, in addition to his time at CEG.
He and his wife, Tara, have been happily married for almost 40 years and are the parents of two grown and successful daughters. He currently is in the employ of two dogs and three cats, a job that he dearly loves.
Jun 25, 2013
Work Stops on Bonner Bridge Pending Ruling
Environmental groups file suit to stop construction....
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May 28, 2013
Pepperdam Faces Bright Future Despite Past Challenges
One construction company comes through the recession battered, but unbowed....
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Mar 19, 2013
Jacksonville Firm in the Iron Biz for the Long Haul
The company is one of the largest woman-owned hauling firms in the country....
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Feb 19, 2013
Blanchard Machinery Unveils New Set of Iron Services
One of the South’s top equipment dealers, as well as a premier machine parts supplier and service provider, has announced that it has opened a new shop designed to service all types of machinery in a more efficient manner....
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Jan 9, 2013
Work Continues on New $79M Hospital in Davie County, N.C.
After years of discussion and planning, construction finally began this summer on the first phase of a new hospital for the citizens of Davie County, just west of Winston-Salem, N.C....
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Jan 8, 2013
SE Highway Crisis Needs Big Solution
There’s no use denying it. America’s vaunted transportation infrastructure, particularly the roads and bridges that we all use, is simply falling apart....
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Dec 26, 2012
May Heavy-Equip Now Marketing Kawasaki Loaders
One of the South’s top equipment dealers recently reached an agreement to begin selling, renting and servicing Kawasaki’s line of articulated wheel loaders, including its Z7 line of machines....
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Sep 17, 2012
CCS Equipment Partners With Kawasaki in Eastern N.C.
It seems to be a partnership borne out of a mutual desire to give customers exactly what they need through friendly, honest service. When CCS Equipment Sales LLC, a full service equipment dealership located just north of Raleigh, wanted to begin offering a bigger line of wheel loaders to give their utility company customers a fuller line of equipment, they zeroed in on Kawasaki, a manufacturer known for its well-made machines....
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Sep 9, 2012
LeeBoy-Rosco Machine a Workhorse for Va. Paving Firms
When one of the mid- Atlantic region’s top paving and emulsion contractors needed a cutting edge new machine to apply its product to the area’s streets and highways, it trusted one brand and one dealer enough to deliver it to them sight unseen....
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Aug 7, 2012
Waste Hauler Sees Big Fuel Savings With Hybrid Excavator
Yet another American operation has recognized the benefits of so-called “green technology” and decided to embrace it. Solid Waste Authority (SWA) of Palm Beach County, Fla., has made its first purchase of a Komatsu HB215 hybrid hydraulic excavator, the only hybrid machine of its kind on the market....
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Jul 11, 2012
South Florida Airport Runway Under Way
After more than 18 years of planning and debate, work finally began in late January on a new, 8,000-ft.-long (2,438 m) runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida....
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Jun 12, 2012
S.C.’s Blanchard Machinery Company Delivers Cat CT660 to N.W. White & Co.
South Carolina-based Blanchard Machinery Company recently announced the delivery of the first Cat CT660 on-highway truck sold in the state to N.W. White & Co., a trucking and hauling firm headquartered in Columbia, S.C....
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Jun 12, 2012
Rish Equipment Team Building ’Support Driven’ Culture
Rish Equipment Company, which has sold and serviced construction and mining equipment in West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland for more than 70 years, has announced that it has elevated several key employees to new management positions in order to better serve its loyal customer base....
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Apr 18, 2012
New N.C. Mobility Fund Kickstarts I-85 Project
Tarheel State transportation officials have had their eye on widening the busy I-85 corridor through southern Davidson County in the central part of the state for decades....
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Feb 7, 2012
Muddy Creek Bridge Forms Along U.S. 421
The more than two-year effort to replace the old bridges that carry U.S. Highway 421 traffic over Muddy Creek in Winston-Salem should be finished in late May, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT)....
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Jan 9, 2012
JW Demolition Sees Big Savings With Komatsu Hybrid
For Will Dellinger, buying four new Komatsu hybrid excavators for his burgeoning demolition and recycling firm was a no-brainer. Last summer, Dellinger’s North Carolina-based company decided to invest in four of Komatsu’s new 2011 HB215-1 excavators, primarily because the model’s eco-friendly technology offers its owners such a big savings on fuel costs — as much as 40 percent....
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Nov 25, 2011
Southern Crane Adds Star Performer to Its Crane Fleet
Earl Johnson III had to be talked into acquiring a new piece of equipment for his business, but in the end, taking delivery of a sparkling new Link-Belt hydraulic truck crane proved to be a “no-brainer.”Johnson, the president of Southern Crane in Raleigh, N.C., had another 15 cranes in his fleet and all of them were busy....
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Oct 3, 2011
Carolina Bridge Hustles to Close Up Gap Left by Irene
Crews are frantically working around the clock to erect a temporary bridge along a stretch of North Carolina Highway 12, the only major highway along the state’s Outer Banks, after Hurricane Irene cut a breach in the thin strip of land that separates Pamlico Sound from the Atlantic Ocean....
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Aug 19, 2011
Watson Construction Saving the Planet - and Money
The way the professionals at Watson Construction see it, if you can do business with equipment that is both environmentally friendly and wallet friendly, why would you do it any other way?The contracting firm, one of the largest in northern Florida, has put that philosophy on display in a number of ways over the last few years....
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