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Quality Control
New Cat VisionLink is Step 1 to Future Site Profitability
Web tool for managing machine telematics feeds aims to improve contractor efficiency by combining data from any brand of machine and systems as diverse as automated grade controls
Caterpillar’s building a multi-brand version of VisionLink is no small change. It puts the company in direct competition with fleet-management software providers, and it can add dramatically to Caterpillar’s and its dealers’ understanding of the makeup and usage of competitive machines operating in customers’ fleets.
Management
How Working Nights Can Affect Your Employees
Fatigue-related accidents are considerably more common at night -- drivers are 50 times more likely to fall asleep at 2 am than at 10 am -- and absenteeism nearly doubles in work places with fatigue issues
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Management
18 Ways Contractors Can Improve How They Find and Hire Workers
Tips on how to avoid the most-common hiring mistakes contractors make before, during and after hiring process
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Workforce
Striping a Road Course for NASCAR
How an “affinity for racing” helps United Striping 101 be the contractor of choice for Sonoma Raceway
The Start/Finish line is the last item striped; the racetrack itself is bordered with 5-in. yellow lines on both sides of the track, which amounts to four miles of striping all done with a walk-behind unit.
ForConstructionPros Video Library
[VIDEO] Drone Flies Through Seattle's SR 99 Tunnel Bertha is Digging
The Washington State Department of Transportation flew a video-equipped drone through the SR 99 tunnel to show Seattle Tunnel Partners’ construction progress before Bertha tunnel under Alaskan Way Viaduct
[VIDEO] Drone Flies Through Seattle's SR 99 Tunnel Bertha is Digging
Management
New Overtime Rule Could Pass in May
It is possible the Department of Labor (DOL) will act by the end of this week in attempts to publish the final new overtime rule and provide the required notices to Congress by May 16
Management
The “.01 Second” Winning Job
Infrastructure
How to Compact Asphalt Pavements
Temperature of the mat, pattern of rollers, impact mat density – and the success (or failure) of a pavement
Given that the best time to achieve the greatest density is when the mat is hottest, it makes sense to get as much compaction at the higher temperatures as possible. Scherocman says the best way to do that is to operate two rollers in echelon – side by side – down the mat. This enables the full width of the mat to be compacted while that mat is hottest.
Infrastructure
How Geogrids Help Remediate Failures
Geogrids have aided in retrofits by facilitating a reduced thickness of the sub-base; serving as an abridgement; enabling a shorter time of construction, as well as a cost reduction
Orange County Public Works relied on Geotextile Apparatus Co.’s Grizzly Cub fabric/grid installation machine, attached to a motor grader, to properly place the geogrid on its projects.
Infrastructure
APM Paves Parking Lot Using Mix with Toner Additive
Recycled printer toner passes first U.S. paving test – laydown – in Kentucky
APM Asphalt is the first U.S. contractor to construct an asphalt pavement that contains the MTP as an additive in the hot mix asphalt.
Dirt Work
SDLG Begins Rolling Out Tier 4 Final Wheel Loaders
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2.5- and 3.0-cu.-yd. models available in U.S. starting in June with 4.0-cu.-yd. models to be available later this year
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Dirt Work
Spec Sheet: SDLG Tier 4 Final Wheel Loaders
The company is refreshing its entire line up of wheel loaders, and along with new engines that are cleaner than ever before, several additional enhancements have been made to the machines.
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