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5 Focus Areas to Increase Your Construction Company’s Efficiency

Reviewing and tweaking these five areas of your construction business can help increase efficiency and productivity

Every construction business is different, but these five ways to improve productivity should be on your radar if they’re not already implemented.

Senate Revisits Vehicle Innovation Act to Invest $1.7B in Advanced Vehicle Efficiency

NTEA | The Association for the Work Truck Industry

The Vehicle Innovation Act (VIA), backed by the National Truck Equipment Assn., would provide funding over five years for research into advanced vehicle fuel efficiency technologies for cars and vocational trucks

Kenworth T680, T880 and T880S Available with Cummins ISL G Near Zero Engine

Kenworth Truck Company

Kenworth’s T680 on-highway and T880 and T880S vocational trucks are now available for order with the Cummins Westport ISL G Near Zero NOx emissions natural gas engine.

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Customer Sees 50% Fuel Efficiency Gain with Hybrid Loader

Volvo Construction Equipment

Hybrid loader achieves a roughly 50% improvement in fuel efficiency compared to its conventional counterparts during hundreds of hours of real-world testing

Volvo CE's LX1 prototype electric hybrid wheel loader at Waste Management's Moreno Valley Transfer Station. The LX1 is a series hybrid, which puts an electric motor at each wheel and replaces an equivalent-sized conventional loader's 13L engine with a 3.6L diesel, on board strictly to run the loader's generator. Volvo says 98% of the components on the LX1 are new.

Volvo Lifts PL3005E Pipelayer's Capacity, Fuel Efficiency

Volvo Construction Equipment

Volvo's PL3005E rotating pipelayer features a 6% increase in horsepower, 8% increase in max torque, 7% increase in lift capacity and 5% greater fuel efficiency compared to the previous model

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[APP] Get Real-time Production Data from the Field with Rhumbix Mobile App

Rhumbix allows field managers to quickly create and approve time cards, capture safety data, quantities installed, change orders, signatures, pictures/notes and create daily reports

Rhumbix's mobile app enables foremen to record changes creating a data-rich digital record of what happened on the jobsite.

State Attorneys General Vow to Fight Trump Auto Emissions Easing

Letter from 13 state attorneys general refutes administration criticisms of automobile greenhouse gas standards and pledges to ‘vigorously pursue legal remedies to block” attempts to weaken them

Roush CleanTech Offers Propane Autogas Medium-Duty Engine

First propane autogas engine for Class 4-7 vehicles is now certified by the EPA and CARB, at 75% cleaner than current diesel emissions standard

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Engines Ready to Meet Stage V Diesel Emissions

Engine suppliers' preparations to meet the EU's Stage V can benefit North American customers, as well.

The FPT V20 engine will meet Stage V without the use of a DPF or EGR.

GSB-88 Gilsonite-Based Emulsified Asphalt Seal Coat

Asphalt Systems, Inc

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Luck Stone Quarry Partners with Airware to Expand Drone Data Processes

Airware’s aerial technology is designed to improve efficiency, impact business decisions

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EPA Triples Funding for 2017 Clean-Diesel Upgrade Grants

Funding boost and extended proposal deadline offer fleet owners the opportunity to get federal money to upgrade older diesel equipment

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