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OSHA removes crane capacity restrictions from operator certifications; will require more rigorous employer evaluations | Dump Truck Company

After hearing extensive feedback from the construction industry that rated operating capacity (ROC) is not a suitable indicator of a crane operator’s skill and experience, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced today in a proposed rule change that it intends to remove an existing provision from its standard for cranes and derricks in construction that required different levels of operator certification based on a crane’s ROC.

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Equipment Roundup: Doosan steps out from Bobcat’s shadow; Electric Ford F-650 now available; Pettibone’s new Extendo telehandler; AUSA unveils all-terrain dumper, electric prototype | Dump Truck Company

AUSA unveils D601AHG all-terrain site dumper, electric dumper prototype

With a 13,200-plus pound load capacity, the new 74-horsepower D601AHG site dumper from AUSA features telematics and what the dump trucks charlotte nc calls a Full Visibility System.

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Honolulu officials consider P3 to complete $8B rail project | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • An independent consultancy has advised Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) officials that using a public-private partnership (P3) to take on the last four-mile section of the agency's over-budget, $8 billion rail project could help eliminate additional cost increases, ensure a reliable schedule for completion and reduce the price tag of the entire project by 2%, according to Honolulu Civil Beat.

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Activists file federal lawsuit to stop $500M Obama center | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • Chicago park activists filed a lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in an attempt to prevent city officials from authorizing construction of the $500 million Obama Presidential Center and to keep the city from moving forward with a long-term lease of parkland to the Obama Foundation, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

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Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Project



We are proud to be a part of the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project that will construct a new two-lane tunnel under Thimble Shoal Channel. When complete, the new tunnel will carry two lanes of traffic southbound and the existing tunnel will carry two lanes of traffic northbound.

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Diadon Enterprises attends Consensus 2018



Diadon Enterprises is looking at implementing an innovative blockchain technology called Kaleido, which uses powerful features such as confidential transactions and chain analytics to take the new blockchain experience to the next level.

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Officials tell Tutor Perini, subcontractor to redo 3 miles of San Francisco rail | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) notified general contractor Tutor Perini last month that it and its subcontractor, Con-Quest Contractors, installed the wrong type of rail tracks on 3.2 miles of the $1.6 billion Central Subway project, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, and is demanding that the entities replace it with suitable material at their own expense.

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Business Roundup: JCB ceases N.A. backhoe production; Wacker Neuson reports record 1Q; Three new leadership hires at Manitou; Hyundai CE taps Bello to head south central U.S. sales | Dump Truck Company

Wacker Neuson reports record 1Q revenues

Fueled in large part by robust U.S. sales in skid-steer loaders, the Wacker Neuson Group is reporting record high revenues for the first quarter of 2018 compared to a year ago, with an increase of more than 9 percent to $440.1 million.

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Machine that will drill mile-long hole for Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel gets a name

"Chessie" the Tunnel Boring Machine
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel machine is being built in Germany and should arrive in Hampton Roads in 2019. Area school kids got a chance to name the machine through a contest. Courtesy of Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel commission.
 

Meet Chessie.

That’s the name of the new boring machine that will drill the mile-long hole for an expansion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

The name, chosen by an online contest, was submitted by Grace Bentley of Nandua Middle School in Onley on the Eastern Shore.

 

Chessie is a long-fabled sea monster said to live in the Chesapeake Bay. The legend stretches back more than 80 years with “sightings” really picking up in the 1980s. The monster was described as a long, snakelike creature that rolled through the waves.

“When the tunnel boring machine is digging into the ground, you can think of it like a sea monster,” Bentley said in her video submission.

The name has remained popular in the region, adorning boats, trains, trails and animals.

 

Chessie will be printed on the machine and visible during the launching ceremony in 2019.

Local sixth-graders submitted more than 120 names that were narrowed down to a top 10 for the online vote.

 

Tunnel boring machines often have a female name, a tradition that began when miners prayed to the patron saint of mines, Barbara, to protect them as they worked underground. The naming of the machine before beginning to work is a sign of good luck for the project ahead, CBBT officials said.

The names are often used to colloquially refer to the tunnel boring machines instead of using the long-winded engineering term. Seattle had “Bertha,” Los Angeles had “Harriet” and a Canadian machine was named “Big Becky.”

Prep work for the $756 million parallel tunnel has already begun on the island closest to Virginia Beach. The digging machine will begin there in 2019 and move northeast until it hits the second island. The project is set for completion in 2022.

The expansion project will provide safety and redundancy to the critical route between the Eastern Shore and Hampton Roads. Officials have worried that a major crash or disaster in a tunnel could sever the link.

 
 

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Related files 2nd lawsuit against NYC labor union | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • Hudson Yards Construction (HYC), the building arm of developer Related Cos., has filed a lawsuit against the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC) and its chief Gary LaBarbera claiming that they are trying to interfere with the supply of concrete to a project at New York City's $25 billion Hudson Yards development through intimidation and "thuggish tactics," according to court documents filed May 5.

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JCB ceases backhoe production at Ga. facility to make room for telehandlers; will build dedicated parts warehouse and distribution center in Miami | Dump Truck Company

JCB’s 505-20TC telehandler

Less than four years after the first JCB 3CX backhoe rolled off the assembly line at the British charlotte nc dump trucks maker’s Savannah, Georgia-based North American headquarters, the dump trucks charlotte nc has announced that it has ceased backhoe production at the plant in order to make room for production of the 505-20TC compact telehandler.

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New Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel tube will create a mountain of contaminated soil

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    To bore the new tube of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, enough muck will be extracted to fill about 50,000 dump trucks – muck that recent tests confirmed will be contaminated by the boring process and must be disposed of in a protected landfill.

    In a region familiar with underwater traffic tunnels, it’s an unfamiliar wrinkle.

    The CBBT’s latest tunnel – a $756 million, mile-long parallel tube under the southern shipping channel – will be the first in Virginia built by a boring machine, worming its way through the bay bottom.

     

    All other tunnels in the area – a total of 10 tubes – are trench-style. Muck was scooped out the old-fashioned way, bucket by bucket, leaving most of it “clean” enough to be dumped offshore.

    But the boring method being used at the CBBT requires the use of additives: foams and other substances common to the oil-drilling industry. They lubricate the cutter head and help sediments – called “spoils” – flow more easily from the hole.

    Those additives are petroleum-based, leaving the spoils tainted with contaminants considered hazardous to health.

    Known as TPH, for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons, they’re measured in milligrams per kilogram of soil. Environmental protection regulations kick in when TPH hits 50-plus milligrams.

    The CBBT samples – a mix of native ground and boring additives – tested at 75 milligrams of TPH, which is barely over the threshold. In heavily polluted sites, rates can climb into the 10,000 range.

    But it’s high enough to make the CBBT spoils ineligible for the usual dumping site 17 miles offshore.

    Also off the table now: a borrow pit on the lower Eastern Shore, a site that was previously considered.

    In a regular borrow pit, TPH could seep into groundwater, explained Bert Parolari, a water protection program manager at the Tidewater office of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

    “Petroleum-contaminated soils must go to a landfill equipped with a liner and a leachate collection system,” he said.

    Boring does have advantages for the CBBT: Fewer interruptions to shipping in the channel, less risk of damaging the existing tube nearby. Bored tunnels are the norm in Europe and Asia.

    One disadvantage is the mountain of contaminated spoils it can create. Jeff Holland, executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission, said they knew “there was that potential.”

    When commissioners put the project out for bid, they were willing to go either way – bore or trench – as long as the design satisfied their 2,300 pages of specifications.

    All three of the lowest-price bids turned out to be bore. The commission chose the lowest of those, from Chesapeake Tunnel Joint Venture – a partnership of engineering and heavy construction companies that have done similar projects around the world.

    A German outfit is building the boring machine. It’ll be as long as a football field and have a rotating cutter head that’s 42 feet in diameter, capable of chewing through 50 feet of sediment a day. TPH-containing additives will be used to reduce friction, help the machine maintain proper pressure and turn the muck into a slurry that can be carried out by conveyor.

    The test results and their ramifications have been “expected from the beginning,” Andres Gonzalez, a project executive with the builder, wrote to The Pilot in an email. He said it doesn’t take much TPH to condemn soil to a landfill, comparing the threshold to “placing a drop of liquid into an Olympic swimming pool.”

    In the old days, this wouldn’t have been an issue. The first tube in the region –  the Downtown Tunnel – opened in 1952. The CBBT opened in 1964.

     

    “The overall regulatory approval process virtually did not exist,” Holland said.

    To satisfy today’s checklist of studies and permits, Holland says the CBBT spent about $8 million. A host of protection acts calls for monitoring of all sorts of possible impacts: construction noise on migrating whales, work lights on nesting sea turtles, sediment drift on neighboring mussels.

    Testing spoils is a regular part of the process. Typically, though, any toxins encountered were already there.

    That’s called “historical contamination,” said Joe Rieger. He’s deputy director of restoration with the Elizabeth River Project, a group focused on healing what was once one of the most polluted rivers in the East.

    No one was surprised when TPH and other toxins turned up in Elizabeth River spoils during construction of the newest tube of the Midtown Tunnel, which opened in 2016. Before regulations existed, industries along the banks routinely dumped waste into the water.

    The real surprise, Rieger said, was how much Midtown muck actually did pass muster. Of the 1.5 million cubic yards extracted, only 10 percent had to go to a landfill; 90 percent got the thumbs-up for ocean disposal.

    “All the efforts we’ve put forth are paying off,” Rieger said. “We were really glad to see that.”

     

    Chris Moore, a senior scientist with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, says it’s not unusual to find historical contamination hidden under healthy layers of sediment.

    But he wouldn’t expect to find any contamination at all where the new CBBT tube is going. Strong currents surging in and out of the bay flush the mouth with ocean water.

    “There’s tremendous movement through there,” he said. “My guess is that’s true virgin territory.”

    The search is on for a suitable landfill large enough to store the spoils. It’s impossible to say how long it’ll take for the TPH to break down or how harmful it truly is.

    Mike Unger, an associate professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, said the TPH label is simply too vague – a catch-all for a family of contaminants that come from crude oil.

    To figure out the fate or toxicity of this particular TPH, Unger said, “you’d need a specific chemical analysis.”

    Even then, many TPH compounds have barely been studied. The most dangerous – like benzene – have been linked to cancers, central nervous system problems and death. The most benign – like some mineral oils – are safe enough to put in food.

    According to CBBT’s builder, hauling spoils to a landfill won’t delay progress on the tube. Gonzalez said the expense was anticipated and factored into the price tag of the five-year project.

    No taxpayer money is being used for the tunnel. Tolls, bonds and loans will cover the cost.

    The boring machine is scheduled for delivery in October. Arriving in sections, it will weigh 5.5 million pounds when assembled.

    In the meantime, preparations are under way on the man-made islands. A launch pit is being dug to lower the machine so it can start eating its way under the Thimble Shoal channel, installing concrete rings in the tunnel as it goes. Crews of 20-25 people will man a control room inside the machine. Operations will go on around the clock.

    One year after boring begins, the machine is expected to surface on the other side.

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Kleeman unveils new mobile crushing and screening plants at Intermat 2018 | Dump Truck Company

At the recent Intermat trade show in Paris, Klemman showcased three mobile crushing and screening plants and announced several more:

  • The “mobile jaw crusher” Mobicat MC 120 Z Pro
  • The mobile impact crushers Mobirex MR 110 Z EVO2 and the MR 130 EVO2
  • Mobile classifying screens: Double-deck Mobiscreen MS 702 EVO and MS 952 EVO; and the triple-deck MS 703 EVO and MS 953 EVO

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Immigration status concerns for employers remain high | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • Construction industry and other employers said they're feeling some regulatory relief with the change in administrations, but also feel burdened by recent abrupt and dramatic regulatory changes, slow-moving confirmations to key federal government agency positions, and the growing patchwork of state and local requirements, according to Littler Mendelson's 2018 Annual Employer Survey, which polled 1,111 in-house counsel, human resources professionals and C-suite executives across industries.

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Miami-Dade County seeks private partner for $6B transit expansion | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • The Miami-Dade County Commission is soliciting the private sector for ideas about what kind of public-private transportation model would be best for the Florida county's potential $6 billion, six-corridor Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) project, according to the Miami Herald, in order to break the stalemate between county agencies and speed the initiative along.

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Miami-Dade considers private partners for $6B transit plan | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • The Miami-Dade County Commission is soliciting the private sector for ideas about what kind of public-private transportation model would be best for the Florida county's potential $6 billion, six-corridor Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) project, according to the Miami Herald, in order to break the stalemate between county agencies and speed the initiative along.

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Gubernatorial candidate would withdraw state support for $2B Las Vegas stadium | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • Nevada State Treasurer Dan Schwartz said that if he is elected governor of Nevada in this year's election, he will not approve potential funding for infrastructure that would support the $2 billion Raiders stadium in Las Vegas stadium unless the NFL team agrees to a new deal in which the state takes back $750 million it has committed to the project, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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Equipment Roundup: Wacker Neuson unveils first fully-electric excavator; GMC Sierra AT4 is off-road luxury; Ditch Witch partners with Vacuworx; The top financed excavator brands of 2017; Vögele debuts at Intermat | Dump Truck Company

Vögele debuts revamped Big MultiPlex Ski, new technology at Intermat

At Intermat, Road paver manufacturer Vögele is showcasing its latest generation of sensors for grade and slope control. Whether on their own or in combination with the new Big MultiPlex Ski, they deliver optimal results in asphalt paving, the dump trucks charlotte nc says.

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Iowa bets on $2B road program and dual, divided highway | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • The Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) is investing up to $2 billion for an 18-mile stretch of state roadway near Council Bluffs, Iowa, the largest portion of which is a dual, three-mile divided highway that will help eventually separate and funnel traffic efficiently along an overlap of two major highways, according to Construction Equipment Guide.

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Virtual radar could reduce permitting delays | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • Researchers at two universities are pairing ground-penetrating radar (GPR) with a cognitive, smartphone-based augmented reality app so that users can see virtual 3-D models of underground objects but also have access to a visual map of subsurface infrastructure that the app stitches together based on a network of previous scans.

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Feds: $2B North Carolina toll road no threat to endangered mussels | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that a $2.2 billion North Carolina toll road, part of the Triangle Expressway in the Raleigh-Durham area, will not negatively affect two species of endangered mussels, a decision which creates a path for the final portions of the project to move forward, according to The News & Observer.

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Union sues NYC contractor claiming it used 'alter ego' company to avoid paying union wages | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • New York City's Metal Lathers Local 46 and other union funds are suing a concrete contractor, its owner and an alleged "alter ego" front columbus oh dump truck company claiming that the latter, New Leaf, was formed to perform columbus oh dump truck company at the $25 billion Hudson Yards development in order to avoid paying union wages and benefits, according to the New York Daily News.

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California cities split on who should pay for $17B San Joaquin Delta tunnels | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) voted to help finance construction of the $17 billion San Joaquin River Delta dual-tunnel project, but delegations from Los Angeles and San Diego are warning that investing $11 billion is risky and unfair to their local customers, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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U.S. road work-zone fatalities up 7% | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • U.S. road work-zone fatalities rose 7% from 2015 to 2016, according to the Chicago Tribune. A Federal Highway Administration official said fatalities increased nationally from 712 in 2015 to 765 in 2016 for several reasons, including more vehicular traffic, distracted driving (texting, talking on a cellphone, eating), and the growing number of roadside construction projects around the country.

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Business Roundup: Cat president of customer/dealer support to retire; Yanmar intros 4-year/4,000-hr. excavator warranty; H&E relocates Fort Collins branch; Luby Equipment a certified Case Precision Dealer; | Dump Truck Company

Mo.’s Luby Equipment Services now a certified Case Precision Construction Dealer

Luby Equipment Services, based in Fenton, Missouri, has earned Case’s official designation as a certified expert dealer in machine control solutions.

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Trump administration, federal agencies sign MOU to limit infrastructure approval to 2 years | Dump Truck Company

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The Trump administration, along with heads from the Department of Transportation, the Department of the Interior departments, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, and eight other federal agencies, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would allow a lead agency to draw up an environmental impact statement (EIS) and complete National Environmental Policy Act reviews of “major” infrastructure projects within an average of two years, the Engineering News-Record reports.

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Infrastructure and Beyond



Diadon Enterprises will soon announce new partnerships which will expand our business and increase our workforce by over 100 people in 2019. This expansion is being led by our CFO, Robert Black III, a Wharton Business School graduate who also received his Law degree from University of Pennsylvania. A former Goldman Sachs executive with expertise in finance, commodities and energy stocks, Robert is leading Diadon Enterprises and our partners into the global market.

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Diadon Enterprises welcomes 2 new team members

Diadon Enterprises welcomes 2 new team members.



Magdalana Foniak
Environmental Engineer
North Carolina Corporate Office

Ray Hamad
Sales and Marketing Director
Ohio Division

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Profitable Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Markets



Diadon Enterprises continues to be at the forefront of the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency markets. Our employees participating in these profitable yet turbulent markets, experienced 60% growth in their investment portfolio in 2017

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Ignorance of OSHA standards no defense for worker's death | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit Court upheld OSHA's decision to issue a willful citation in the case of a worker's deadly fall, even though the employer claims the foreman in charge was ignorant of safety requirements that could have prevented the incident, according to a summary written by the law firm of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP for JD Supra.

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Diadon's Charlotte NC Office



Diadon Enterprises North Carolina corporate office where our office manager, Pik Ye Phan, tried to hide from the cameras

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Florida DOT plans $2.3B, 40-mile Interstate 4 'signature' corridor | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • The Florida DOT (FDOT) is planning a $2.3 billion rebuild of two, 20-mile sections of Interstate 4, an initiative that will connect to the western and eastern ends of the current I-4 Ultimate expansion project in Orlando and attempt to tame traffic around a busy Walt Disney World (WDW) entrance, according to Orlando Weekly.

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2nd Annual Civil Rights Transportation Symposium

Ray Hamad attends the Ohio Civil Rights Symposium for Transportation and explores the value that diversity and inclusion brings to both the industry and the state. During this two-day event, thought leaders from business, government, and academia held discussions on issues related to contracting, business development, regulatory compliance, and the future of transportation.


Left - Former OSU(Ohio State University) Buckeye’s Football Head Coach Jim Tressel
Right - Ray Hamad


Left - NFL & OSU Running Back Keith Byars
Right - Ray Hamad


Left - OSU Running Back, John F. Wooldridge and President of Excenture Business Solutions
Right - Ray Hamad

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Wisconsin construction company charged with $200M minority business fraud | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • A Wisconsin grand jury has indicted a Milwaukee construction columbus oh dump truck company and its owner with a total of 22 counts of fraud for reportedly creating what were purported to be minority and veteran-owned businesses in order to win more than $200 million in federal construction contracts set aside for those groups, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Contractor sues for $1.2M in unpaid invoices for Florida baseball park | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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  • A North Carolina subcontractor has filed a lawsuit against Hunt Construction Group, a subsidiary of engineering and construction giant AECOM, alleging $1.2 million of unpaid bills for columbus oh dump truck company performed on the FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, Florida, The Real Deal reported.

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Equipment Roundup: First Drive review of the 2019 Ram 1500; Volvo debuts updated L90H loader; Manitowoc intros GMK6300L-1 all-terrain crane; Mack’s new MHD more flexible; Volvo CE now 3D printing parts | Dump Truck Company

Volvo CE now 3D printing spare parts, prototype components

Volvo Construction Equipment says it has begun using additive manufacturing techniques not only as part of the company’s process for prototyping new machines, but also to supply customers with replacement parts.

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Business Roundup: Doosan adds 2 N.C. dealer locations; SDLG dealer Alta expands in Midwest; ARA, TechForce team up on technician careers; Marchand promoted to VP at Case; Genie Aerial Pros experts host AMA event | Dump Truck Company

Amid growing worker shortage, ARA, TechForce team up to inspire students to pursue charlotte nc dump trucks technician careers

To encourage young people to pursue trade and technical careers that are necessary to support the charlotte nc dump trucks rental industry, the American Rental Association (ARA) is teaming up with TechForce Foundation of Scottsdale, Arizona.

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FHWA distributes $5 billion more in federal-aid highway funding authority to state DOTs | Dump Truck Company

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The Federal Highway Administration has issued its latest “obligation limitation” notice to state departments of transportation, allowing them access to an additional $5 billion in project funding authority for federal-aid highway programs, according to the the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO).

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Seattle plans two stations, part of $6B light-rail expansion | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • Seattle's Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) will build two underground light-rail stations only five blocks apart in the tech-heavy South Lake Union area of the city due to a "bend" in the route of a $6 billion light-rail initiative, according to The Seattle Times.

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Five Cabinet members push infrastructure before Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

The Trump administration sent five Cabinet secretaries — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry — to a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on March 13 to talk up its infrastructure proposals, but they didn’t seem to be enough to get the committee to move on the $1.5 trillion plan, KPBS reports.

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Houston's hurricane recovery efforts delaying city construction projects | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • As Houston officials go through the annual process of updating the city's five-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), they have put a hold on a variety of public construction projects in order to fund post-Hurricane Harvey reconstruction efforts, according to the Houston Chronicle.

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Turner Construction wins $520M contract for California agency HQ | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The California Department of General Services has awarded a $520 million design-build contract to Turner Construction and its project partner, architecture firm AC Martin, for the construction of a $597 million, 28-story tower that will house the California Natural Resources Agency and other state offices, Commercial Property Executive reported.

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Moody's: Trump's infrastructure plan could grow P3 market | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • A recent Moody's Investment Services report suggests that President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan could result in more private investment through public-private partnerships (P3s), but that state and local governments will have to rethink their revenue policies in order to attract investors.

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Engineer reported but ‘not concerned’ about cracking in Miami bridge before deadly collapse; no road closure for stress testing also at issue | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

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Two days before the deadly collapse of pedestrian bridge in Miami Thursday, the lead engineer on the project left a voicemail with state officials saying cracking had been seen on the north end of the span that had been earlier moved into place during accelerated construction.

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Clark Construction files $5M lawsuit against architect of DC's 'The Wharf' | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • Clark Construction, the general contractor for the $2.5 billion mixed-use development, The Wharf, in Washington, DC, has filed a $5 million breach of contract lawsuit against architect Perkins Eastman alleging the design documents for the project's first phase contained substantial errors and omissions.

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Ad campaign calls on Congress to act on transportation infrastructure funding package | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

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The Transportation Construction Coalition and Americans for Transportation Mobility Coalition developed a new ad campaign that urges Congress and the Trump administration to act now to develop and pass a robust transportation infrastructure funding package and provide a permanent fix for the Highway Trust Fund, according to a release from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).

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California bullet train costs skyrocket to $77B, opening delayed | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • In a draft of its annual business plan, the California High Speed Rail Authority revealed that the construction cost of a bullet train between Northern and Southern California increased from $67 billion to $77.3 billion, and that the first phase will not be operational until 2029, four years behind schedule, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Louisiana plans first P3 for $112M tunnel, bridge replacement | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has solicited private companies and investors through a Notice of Intent (NOI) to join with the agency in its first public-private partnership (P3) for the $122 million replacement of the Belle Chasse Tunnel and Bridge in Plaquemines Parish, according to Equipment World.

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Equipment Roundup: Chevy unveils new medium duty Silverados; Toyota enters construction truck market; How Komatsu KomVision cameras eliminate blind spots; Case intros 2 rollers; 3 new Cat rollers feature oscillation | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Com

Case intros SV216D, SV212D rollers with more torque, ‘most climbing power in the industry’

At the World of Asphalt show Tuesday, Case Construction Equipment launched two new rollers in the SV212D and SV216D.

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In 'most important labor decision in decades,' SCOTUS appears ready to weaken unions | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 31, and despite its focus on union fees in the public sector, it may end up being "the most important labor law decision .

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Dan Gilbert, Detroit close to sealing deal for downtown land swap | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • Quicken Loans founder, billionaire Dan Gilbert, has reportedly reached a tentative deal with Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan, officials for a three-party land swap that would allow Gilbert to develop a downtown parcel into a $1 billion soccer stadium and mixed-use complex, according to The Detroit News.

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Chao: Trump wants to stop funding for $13B Hudson River tunnel project | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said in testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week that President Donald Trump has taken action to scuttle the $13 billion Hudson River tunnel project and asked House Speaker Paul Ryan to block funding for it, according to the Associated Press.

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Report: Seattle building boom could be over | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The Downtown Seattle Association has reported that there are 23% fewer active construction projects in the city's central district than there were six months ago, a decline from 74 projects to 57 that marks the sharpest downturn since the association began keeping such records in 2005, according to The Seattle Times.

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California awards HOV engineering and design contract, part of up to $2B project | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The Ventura County Transportation Commission has awarded WSP an engineering design and environmental consulting services contract worth up to $15.2 million as a precursor to a $750 million to $2 billion project that would see the addition of high-occupancy vehicle lanes on Highway 101 through the California cities of Thousand Oaks and Ventura, according to the Ventura County Star.

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California awards WSP HOV engineering-design contract, part of up to $2B project | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • The Ventura County Transportation Commission has awarded WSP an engineering design and environmental consulting services contract worth up to $15.2 million as a precursor to a $750 million to $2 billion project that would see the addition of high-occupancy vehicle lanes on Highway 101 through the California cities of Thousand Oaks and Ventura, according to the Ventura County Star.

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California awards WSP HOV engineering-design contract, part of a potential $2B project | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • The Ventura County Transportation Commission has awarded WSP an engineering design and environmental consulting services contract worth up to $15.2 million as a precursor to a $750 million to $2 billion project that would see the addition of high-occupancy vehicle lanes on Highway 101 through the California cities of Thousand Oaks and Ventura, according to the Ventura County Star.

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Equipment dealer webinars to address Google search rankings, marketing, advertising | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

The Equipment Dealers Association (EDA) and digital marketing firm Team SI will soon offer EDA members three free webinars on digital marketing and storytelling topics.

Here are the offerings:

  • March 27, 2018: The Basics of SEO and Directories
  • May 29, 2018: Content Marketing 101: Tell Your Story
  • July 24, 2018: Programmatic Advertising and Why it Matters

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Business Roundup: Cat to close Waco plant; Construction execs predict ‘best year ever’; Herc Rentals revenue up 16%; Kubota adds Mo.’s Farm Shop; Yancey Bros. to carry Thunder Creek; AEM names Kubota’s Stucke treasurer | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck

Kubota’s Stucke elected 2018 treasurer for AEM

Todd Stucke, senior vice president of marketing, product support, and strategic projects for Kubota Tractor Corporation, has been elected 2018 Treasurer of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).

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CTDOT says ‘strategic widening’ of I-95 will reduce congestion, boost economy | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

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A new Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) study, I-95 Strategies to Reduce Congestion, finds that, rather than taking private property to widen all of Interstate 95 to relieve congestion, the same results can be obtained with “limited, directional, and strategic widening” of portions of the interstate already held by CTDOT, the CT Mirror reports.

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New Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel tube will create a mountain of contaminated soil



To bore the new tube of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, enough muck will be extracted to fill about 50,000 dump trucks – muck that recent tests confirmed will be contaminated by the boring process and must be disposed of in a protected landfill.

In a region familiar with underwater traffic tunnels, it’s an unfamiliar wrinkle.

The CBBT’s latest tunnel – a $756 million, mile-long parallel tube under the southern shipping channel – will be the first in Virginia built by a boring machine, worming its way through the bay bottom.

All other tunnels in the area – a total of 10 tubes – are trench-style. Muck was scooped out the old-fashioned way, bucket by bucket, leaving most of it “clean” enough to be dumped offshore.

But the boring method being used at the CBBT requires the use of additives: foams and other substances common to the oil-drilling industry. They lubricate the cutter head and help sediments – called “spoils” – flow more easily from the hole.

Those additives are petroleum-based, leaving the spoils tainted with contaminants considered hazardous to health.

Known as TPH, for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons, they’re measured in milligrams per kilogram of soil. Environmental protection regulations kick in when TPH hits 50-plus milligrams.

The CBBT samples – a mix of native ground and boring additives – tested at 75 milligrams of TPH, which is barely over the threshold. In heavily polluted sites, rates can climb into the 10,000 range.

But it’s high enough to make the CBBT spoils ineligible for the usual dumping site 17 miles offshore.

Also off the table now: a borrow pit on the lower Eastern Shore, a site that was previously considered.

In a regular borrow pit, TPH could seep into groundwater, explained Bert Parolari, a water protection program manager at the Tidewater office of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

“Petroleum-contaminated soils must go to a landfill equipped with a liner and a leachate collection system,” he said.

Boring does have advantages for the CBBT: Fewer interruptions to shipping in the channel, less risk of damaging the existing tube nearby. Bored tunnels are the norm in Europe and Asia.

One disadvantage is the mountain of contaminated spoils it can create. Jeff Holland, executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission, said they knew “there was that potential.”

When commissioners put the project out for bid, they were willing to go either way – bore or trench – as long as the design satisfied their 2,300 pages of specifications.

All three of the lowest-price bids turned out to be bore. The commission chose the lowest of those, from Chesapeake Tunnel Joint Venture – a partnership of engineering and heavy construction companies that have done similar projects around the world.

A German outfit is building the boring machine. It’ll be as long as a football field and have a rotating cutter head that’s 42 feet in diameter, capable of chewing through 50 feet of sediment a day. TPH-containing additives will be used to reduce friction, help the machine maintain proper pressure and turn the muck into a slurry that can be carried out by conveyor.

The test results and their ramifications have been “expected from the beginning,” Andres Gonzalez, a project executive with the builder, wrote to The Pilot in an email. He said it doesn’t take much TPH to condemn soil to a landfill, comparing the threshold to “placing a drop of liquid into an Olympic swimming pool.”

In the old days, this wouldn’t have been an issue. The first tube in the region – the Downtown Tunnel – opened in 1952. The CBBT opened in 1964.

“The overall regulatory approval process virtually did not exist,” Holland said.

To satisfy today’s checklist of studies and permits, Holland says the CBBT spent about $8 million. A host of protection acts calls for monitoring of all sorts of possible impacts: construction noise on migrating whales, work lights on nesting sea turtles, sediment drift on neighboring mussels.

Testing spoils is a regular part of the process. Typically, though, any toxins encountered were already there.

That’s called “historical contamination,” said Joe Rieger. He’s deputy director of restoration with the Elizabeth River Project, a group focused on healing what was once one of the most polluted rivers in the East.

No one was surprised when TPH and other toxins turned up in Elizabeth River spoils during construction of the newest tube of the Midtown Tunnel, which opened in 2016. Before regulations existed, industries along the banks routinely dumped waste into the water.

The real surprise, Rieger said, was how much Midtown muck actually did pass muster. Of the 1.5 million cubic yards extracted, only 10 percent had to go to a landfill; 90 percent got the thumbs-up for ocean disposal.

“All the efforts we’ve put forth are paying off,” Rieger said. “We were really glad to see that.”

Chris Moore, a senior scientist with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, says it’s not unusual to find historical contamination hidden under healthy layers of sediment.

But he wouldn’t expect to find any contamination at all where the new CBBT tube is going. Strong currents surging in and out of the bay flush the mouth with ocean water.

“There’s tremendous movement through there,” he said. “My guess is that’s true virgin territory.”

The search is on for a suitable landfill large enough to store the spoils. It’s impossible to say how long it’ll take for the TPH to break down or how harmful it truly is.

Mike Unger, an associate professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, said the TPH label is simply too vague – a catch-all for a family of contaminants that come from crude oil.

To figure out the fate or toxicity of this particular TPH, Unger said, “you’d need a specific chemical analysis.”

Even then, many TPH compounds have barely been studied. The most dangerous – like benzene – have been linked to cancers, central nervous system problems and death. The most benign – like some mineral oils – are safe enough to put in food.

According to CBBT’s builder, hauling spoils to a landfill won’t delay progress on the tube. Gonzalez said the expense was anticipated and factored into the price tag of the five-year project.

No taxpayer money is being used for the tunnel. Tolls, bonds and loans will cover the cost.

The boring machine is scheduled for delivery in October. Arriving in sections, it will weigh 5.5 million pounds when assembled.

In the meantime, preparations are under way on the man-made islands. A launch pit is being dug to lower the machine so it can start eating its way under the Thimble Shoal channel, installing concrete rings in the tunnel as it goes. Crews of 20-25 people will man a control room inside the machine. Operations will go on around the clock.

One year after boring begins, the machine is expected to surface on the other side.

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Diadon’s Ray Hamad hanging out with RONDA ROUSEY

Diadon’s Ray Hamad hanging out with WWE Superstar, MMA fighter, Olympic Medalist and Actor RONDA ROUSEY - during the Arnold Classic and Sports Festival.

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Former MTA construction manager fined, sentenced to prison on bribery charges | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • A former Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) construction project administrator has been ordered to pay a fine of $20,000 and serve a sentenced of 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to asking for and receiving bribes from MTA contractors, according to the U.S.

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State officials target Turner, Bloomberg executives as part of $100M construction fraud investigation | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • As part of a state police and Manhattan District Attorney's Office investigation into potential pay-to-play schemes in the interior construction industry totaling $100 million, The New York Times reported that Bloomberg and Turner Construction offices in New York City, as well as those of other contractors, have been raided and executives who participated in bribery, bid-rigging and other fraud have been fired.

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State targets Turner, Bloomberg execs as part of $100M construction fraud probe | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • As part of a state police and Manhattan District Attorney's Office investigation into potential pay-to-play schemes in the interior construction industry totaling $100 million, The New York Times reported that Bloomberg and Turner Construction offices in New York City, as well as those of other contractors, have been raided and executives who participated in bribery, bid-rigging and other fraud have been fired.

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California DA: Contractors failed to pay $200K in prevailing wages, state taxes | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • The Orange County (California) District Attorney's Office has charged a group of columbus oh excavation company that performed columbus oh dump truck company on the Pacific Amphitheater at the Orange County Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa between 2013 and 2015 with underpaying workers and failure to pay state taxes, an amount totaling $200,000, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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St. Jude building Memphis research facility, part of $1B hospital expansion | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has announced it will build a $412 million research center in downtown Memphis, one of the largest projects in the city's history and part of the hospital's $1 billion expansion plans for its downtown Memphis campus, according to the Commercial Appeal.

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Employees think AI can improve jobs, but worry the technology will replace them | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • Four in five employees think artificial intelligence (AI) will make columbus oh dump truck company more empowering and engaging, but think employers' silence on the topic is creating fear and concern, a new survey by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated reveals.

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Report: Trump supports 25-cent federal gas tax increase to help fund $1.5 trillion infrastructure program | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • President Donald Trump reportedly told a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers in a meeting at the White House last week that he would support a 25-cent-per-gallon increase to the federal gas and diesel taxes to help pay for his $1.5 trillion infrastructure program, according to Bloomberg.

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Who’s the country’s best equipment tech? AEMP names finalists in annual competition | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

The Association of Equipment Management Professionals announced on Thursday the finalists in its Technician of the Year contest. They include:

James Blake, Kiewit Infrastructure, New York City

A third-generation charlotte nc MBE DBE company technician, Blake served as a first responder at the World Trade Center after 9/11.

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Long Island Expwy/Grand Central Pkwy interchange set to open ahead of schedule | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

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The $58 million reconstruction project on the three bridges at the Long Island Expressway/Grand Central Parkway Interchange and improvement work at the Long Island Expressway (LIE) between the Grand Central Parkway and College Point Boulevard is expected to be completed in the spring of 2018, nine months ahead of schedule, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week, according to QNS.

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ENGS Commercial Finance launches electronic signature for construction division | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

ENGS Commercial Finance has added secure electronic signature (E-signature) documentation capabilities to its construction division, following similar implementations in the company’s transportation and industrial divisions. ENGS says the E-signature capabilities will provide “a fast and efficient way to complete the documentation process.

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Ditch Witch unveils easier, faster online parts lookup | Aggregate, Excavation, Dump Truck Company

Ditch Witch has made it easier for its customers to find parts.

The charlotte nc aggregate supply company has released an advanced version of its Ditch Witch Parts Lookup to help customers increase efficiency and reduce downtime by not only finding the service parts they need along with detailed information, but also giving them a direct communication line to dealerships to obtain the part.

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Turner Construction files $12.5M lawsuit against Seattle area Sound Transit | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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President Trump unveils details of $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • President Donald Trump today unveiled details of his infrastructure bill, in which he requests that Congress stimulate at least $1.5 trillion in new infrastructure investment throughout the next decade, shorten the process for approving projects to two years or less, address unmet rural infrastructure needs, empower state and local authorities and train the American workforce.

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President Trump outlines $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • President Donald Trump today unveiled details of his infrastructure bill, in which he requests that Congress stimulate at least $1.5 trillion in new infrastructure investment throughout the next decade, shorten the process for approving projects to two years or less, address unmet rural infrastructure needs, empower state and local authorities and train the American workforce.

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Seattle area starts $6.7B light rail and tunnel projects | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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Can Trump gain support for streamlining infrastructure permitting process? | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • Many federal agencies have made moves to streamline their permitting processes, but doubt still remains as to whether President Donald Trump can get the cooperation he needs from Congress to shrink the maximum infrastructure project permitting time to one to two years, according to Bloomberg BNA.

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Fluor JV wins LAX people mover contract | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • Fluor Corporation announced last week that its LAX Integrated Express Solutions (LINXS) joint venture has been selected by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) to design-build, finance, operate and maintain the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) automated people mover (APM), according to a statement from Fluor.

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Trump plan to streamline permitting process no slam dunk | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • Many federal agencies have made moves to streamline their permitting processes, but doubt still remains as to whether President Donald Trump can get the cooperation he needs from Congress to shrink the maximum infrastructure project permitting time to one to two years, according to Bloomberg BNA.

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Developers plan $2.5B conversion of Brooklyn Navy Yard into tech center | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The nonprofit development columbus oh aggregate supply company tasked with managing the New York City-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard is planning a $2.5 billion, 5.1-million-square-foot expansion that it says will transform the historic shipyard into a creative manufacturing and high-tech hub, according to Bloomberg.

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Subcontractor files lawsuit for $1M nonpayment for Omaha cemetery work | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • An Iowa masonry contractor that performed $3.2 million of columbus oh dump truck company at Omaha National Cemetery in Nebraska is suing the general contractor and insurance columbus oh aggregate supply company for approximately $1.25 million, plus interest, in allegedly unpaid bills, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

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ABC, industry groups ask Trump to axe federal PLAs | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The Associated Builders and Contractors, in association with other construction industry groups, penned a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to rescind an Obama-era executive order that encourages federal agencies to use project labor agreements (PLA) on any federal or federally assisted project of $25 million or more.

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ABC, industry groups ask Trump to axe federal PLA mandate | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The Associated Builders and Contractors, in association with other construction industry groups, penned a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to rescind an Obama-era executive order that encourages federal agencies to use project labor agreements (PLA) on any federal or federally assisted project of $25 million or more.

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Caltrans stops work on $25M bridge project after detecting lateral movement | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has stopped columbus oh dump truck company on a $25 million Interstate 5 bridge replacement project near Redding because surveyors have detected a 1.5-inch lateral shift in the arches supporting the new structure, according to the Record Searchlight.

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When ICE requests worksite access, CA employers must now demand a warrant | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • On Jan. 1, a California law took effect that prohibits employers from providing "voluntary consent" to a federal immigration enforcement agent's request to enter nonpublic columbus oh dump truck company areas — and California's attorney general recently said he will indeed "prosecute those who violate the law," the Sacramento Bee reports.

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What VA's and OR's new licensing laws mean for contractors | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

Columbus Ohio Dump Truck Company Brief:

  • Virginia and Oregon lawmakers last year adopted new rules around construction contractor bonds, according to Builder.
  • Class A and B columbus oh excavation company in Virginia are now able to provide a $50,000 licensing bond rather than demonstrating a minimum net worth of $45,000 and $15,000, respectively, as part of the license application process.

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VA hospital in CO nears completion, more than $1B over budget | Chesapeake Virginia Dump Truck, Aggregate, Excavation Company

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  • The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) beleaguered now-$2 billion Rocky Mountain Regional Medical Center hospital project in Aurora, CO, is nearing completion, but the agency is facing more than $1 billion in cost overruns and a facility that will not offer as many services as its predecessor, according to Federal News Radio.

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