New Maintenance Mindset: Understanding iT4 technologies
Understanding exactly how the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) emission standards—and the interim Tier 4 (iT4) engines—will impact excavators, wheel loaders, and articulated dump trucks...
5 Trailer Sizing Tips
Trailer sizing tips for earthmoving equipment
By Troy Geisler
From bulldozers to excavators, scrapers to dump trucks, finding a trailer to haul the necessary earthmoving equipment...
Efficient Operation
As operations begin to slow down in the fall, it’s a great time to reevaluate maintenance and training procedures to ensure optimum plant efficiency...
Maintaining the Line of Defense
In highway work zones and along high-speed corridors, impact attenuators and crash cushions often serve as the last line of defense between a vehicle...
Greasing Program
By Preston Ingalls
Equipment has rotating and reciprocating movement subject to friction. To minimize that friction and wear, grease is applied on a routine basis....
The Case for Equipment Maintenance Management
Many companies overlook the opportunity to save money, decrease costs, and increase profits through effective management of fleet/equipment operating costs (fuel, repairs, parts, personnel,...
Increasing Uptime for Your Hydroexcavator
In hydroexcavation, uptime is productivity. Every hour a vacuum excavator is sidelined for maintenance, repairs, or avoidable wear is time crews aren’t completing work...
Advances in Motor Oil
Like all viable automotive aftermarket technologies, the lubricating fluid industry has made great strides over the years. Today, lubricating fluids (motor oils) must perform...
Routine Care
It’s only natural to want an easier solution for efficiency-draining tasks like maintenance. However, as any pro athlete will tell you, advancing to the...
A Winter Checklist for Your Compact Equipment
Whether you’re using your compact equipment during winter or putting it in storage for a few months, it is critical that your equipment is...









