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ELFA Announces Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2013

Thinking about adding a new piece of equipment to your fleet this year? The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA), which represen...

NUCA of Colorado Promotes Industry Networking

On Dec. 6, NUCA of Colorado, American Water Works, Rocky Mountain Section of Young Professionals and American Society of Civil Engineers loc...

NUCA of the Carolinas Presents Ditch Digger Award

NUCA of the Carolinas awarded its most prestigious award during its fall conference held in October in Pinehurst, N.C. Jerry Smith, Executiv...

Ladders Are Inherently Dangerous

Climb up, climb down. It seems simple enough. Then why are so many construction workers injured or killed while using ladders? It always ama...

Government Relations Is about Relationships

The more things change, the more they stay the same. As the new government prepares to tackle a number of issues challenging our country thi...

Productivity’s in the Air

Contractors need an arsenal of equipment to get their work done. And although the idea of these fleets include big machines such as excavato...

The Perfect Pairing

Underground utility installations and repairs call for a lot of muscle, so it’s no wonder why an excavator fits the bill. These machines a...

Digging for Information

The excavator has become a staple in the utility construction industry. From digging and backfilling to moving and placing pipe, it’s the...

Half a Million and Counting

JCB invented the backhoe loader and on Dec. 12, 2012, the company marked the production of its 500,000th. The first backhoe rolled off the p...

ARA Foundation Contributes $6,000 to Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts

It’s been more than two months since Hurricane Sandy raged over the Atlantic Ocean, leaving tens of thousands homeless, families without l...

Nuca Chairman’s Message

As we embark upon the New Year, we can all ask ourselves if we are going to travel through 2013 the same way we did 2012, or if we are going...

A Record Breaking Year

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc., the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, sold approximately $3.9 billion of equipment at 32...

Case Donates More than 3,000 Die-Cast Models to Toys for...

Case Construction Equipment shipped more than 3,000 die-cast construction machine models to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, following t...