As you are no doubt painfully aware, diesel and gasoline fuel prices are currently surging due to several factors, from pandemic-related supply...
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Tips For Excavating Frozen Ground
To avoid the challenges of snow, ice, and frozen ground, and weather-related work stoppages, contractors will often stop working early in the...
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Vacuum Trucks Prove Valuable in Iowa Grain Bin Rescue
Vacuum trucks aren’t only useful for things like potholing underground utilities or cleaning sewers. Recently, they were a valuable part of a...
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Eliminate Negativity From Your Workplace Culture
“Culture” is a term that may seem nebulous or vague, but in reality, it can have a tangible impact on your business’...
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Failure is an Opportunity for Growth
It doesn’t feel good to fail on a job, and it usually costs you something: money, pride, status, credibility. But the more...
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Breaking Down Skid Steer Acquisition Options
You have a job where you need a skid steer. But determining the best avenue for acquiring one isn’t always an easy...
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Best of 2021: Contractors Offer Advice and Insight
It’s again that time of year that is typically reserved for some reflection. Here we reflect on some of the industry knowledge...
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Well-Designed Hydrovac Truck Makes Repairs Less Challenging
As a hydroexcavating company that specializes in exposing underground utility lines and excavating foundation perimeters for building-expansion projects, HydroEx in Puerto Rico...
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How to Capitalize on the Infrastructure Bill
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill signed into law in November will provide significant funding to benefit the construction industry.
Nearly the entire bill is...
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Protect Your Business From Catastrophe by Preparing for the Unexpected
Becky Peltzer just got home from work when she received an emergency phone call. She needed to get back to the office right...
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Executing Pipe Lining Jobs in the Winter
“I’ve held up my lining jobs until warmer weather, but I am getting too many jobs to get them all done in...
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The Risks and Rewards of Business Partnerships
Maybe you shared a faded futon as college roommates or a second-hand Chevy as brother and sister. Whatever the circumstances were that...
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What to Know Before Getting an Equipment Appraisal
Before selling an asset in your fleet, you might want to get a construction equipment appraisal to establish its value.
This consists of...
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5 Ways to Shake Up Your Safety Training
At 20-years-old, Regina McMichael’s husband died after falling off a roof at a job site where he was working. That was the...

















