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Record Fuel Costs Stalling Some State Projects

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Pete Sigmund - This is the “summer of discontent” in the form of financial stress for many contractors and dealers.The cost of diesel fuel is at a record level, increasing the expense of running equipment.The producer price index (PPI) for highway and street materials like asphalt is u...

Roadless Rules Touch Nerve Among Readers

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Pete Sigmund - In a recent Construction Equipment Guide story (“Rage Over New Roadless Rules”), the Sierra Club and other environmental groups criticized the Bush Administration’s new rule allowing states to propose plans on managing 58.5-million acres designated as “roadless” area...

Ingersoll-Rand Celebrates 100-Year Anniversary

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Pete Sigmund - Look no further than Ingersoll-Rand (IR) for the keys to success in business.Celebrating its 100th year in 2005, IR has been everywhere, it seems, and done everything, while seizing the moment and diversifying into new fields.It helped dig the Panama Canal, sculpt the faces of presi...

Battle Lines Drawn Over New Roadless Rules

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Pete Sigmund - As the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) observes its 100th anniversary this year, environmental groups are locking horns with the Bush Administration over an issue that has drawn 4.2-million public comments: how to protect 58.5-million acres of roadless areas in U.S. national forests.One of the ...

Toll Roads Becoming ’HOT’ Funding Topic

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Pete Sigmund - The Bush Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) strongly support big changes in highway operation to alleviate horrific congestion and save billions of dollars.The changes, important to the construction industry, include using more toll roads, HOT (High-Occupancy ...

House Votes Again to Repeal ’Death Tax’

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Pete Sigmund - Congress is close to permanently repealing the federal estate tax this year, freeing thousands of family-owned contractors and dealers from the burden of planning how to pay (or evade) this “death tax.”The U.S. construction industry has made a very strong case to legislators th...

Tire Shortage Could Last Until 2007

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Pete Sigmund - Tires for construction equipment can be as much as 8 ft. in diameter and cost $8,000 each. Now, as demand for them is booming, the construction industry is suffering from a serious global shortage of large and medium-size off-road tires for wheel loaders and other equipment.The shortage, w...

Highway Bill’s May 31 Deadline Looms

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Pete Sigmund - A long-delayed new six-year highway and public transportation bill, very important to motorists, the nation’s road system, the economy and contractors, must pass before this summer to push forward this year’s construction season, and avoid delays in planning for future projects....

Interstate 69 to Blaze New Trail of Economic Growth

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Pete Sigmund - Blazing new trails has always been part of America. In the 21st century, you still have to chart the route, cross rivers and mountains, and get enough funding to do the job.Interstate 69 (I-69) is being discussed, studied, and mapped as a route to new wealth, like the Oregon Trail of ol...

President Bush Budges on Highway Bill

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Pete Sigmund - When President Bush held tight last year to his $256-billion proposal for a new six-year highway and public transportation bill, many in the construction industry worried that he would never budge in the future.The industry relentlessly told the White House that the country needed much mor...