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Navigating challenging job sites is a common task for Underground Contractors Inc. (UCI), an industry leader in telecommunication installations across the United...

To equip utility contractors with the latest technology for optimal drilling productivity, Ditch Witch, a Charles Machine Works Company, has added the...

Just about any contractor can learn how to run machines effectively and efficiently. But figuring out how to use equipment to solve...

In a nutshell, a toxic employee is a person who is not just difficult to manage or get along with but whose...

San Francisco’s push for faster high-speed internet got a big boost last week, when a city supervisor introduced a bill that would...

The LP high-cfm unit from Vac-Tron Equipment uses a specialized in-tank filter inside the vacuum excavation unit’s debris tank that in most...

You’ve been injured on the job. Now what? Do you hire an attorney? Do you notify somebody? Is your injury compensable, and...

Beset by difficult challenges in its early years, Supreme Vac is now a veteran player in the oilfield services industry in Alberta....

Trenchless excavation contractor Bill Heinselman has zero tolerance for subcontractors who don’t show up on jobs. Yet ironically enough, he owes such...

Directional drills and pulling accessories play small, but vital roles when putting in underground lines. Keeping drills and accessories in good condition...

Unit helps pull new HDPE pipe through collapsed clay mainProblem: A residential customer in Germantown, Tennessee, was experiencing slow drains. Upon investigating,...

You’re using your directional drill when suddenly you slice through a gas line. Gas could be leaking into the apartment building nearby....

It has only been six short years since I made the transition from banking into the construction world. My thoughts prior to...

Contractors, like parents, can be undone if they constantly cave in to whining. If parents give in every time a child begs...

A collapsing 72-inch corrugated metal pipe jeopardized operations at a stone quarry in Stafford, Virginia. The 800-foot pipe was the main dewatering...

For contractors looking to dig a small, shallow trench for fiber-optic lines leading to homes, using traditional digging methods can add time...

Accidents most often involve what can be called a “confluence of circumstances.” It’s also known as the domino theory, developed by W.H....

JCB announced that the U.S. Army will be taking delivery of more than 1,600 light-capability, rough-terrain forklifts for deployment around the world,...

CALENDARApril 6-7 National Heavy Equipment Show, International Centre, Mississauga, Ontario. Visit www.nhes.caApril 9-13 NASTT’s No-Dig Show, Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center,...