Photo courtesy GM The 2015 Chevrolet Colorado (shown) and GMC Canyon rejoin the small-pickup segment. Photo courtesy GM Among the standard features are a super-quiet cabin and such useful options as a 4G hotspot. Related Links: 2015 Chevrolet Colorado Reboots To Capture Small-Truck Buyers Why Contractors Are Buying Pickup Trucks Like it is 1985 Driving the new 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon small pickups reveals that General Motors has put to good use its three years away from this segment.These models have grown substantially in every direction, making them 5.5 in. taller, 6.7 in. wider and 20 in. longer
Courtesy Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm South Africa requires a fleet of modern cranes to meet wind-project demands, experts say. Related Links: Nigeria Cement Makers Grapple With New Regulations Wind Developers Active Across African Continent South Africa's construction of renewable-energy capacity and coal powerplants has created new opportunities for heavy-equipment suppliers, especially crane companies, after the government recently approved 64 new projects, valued at $14 billion.South Africa is constructing 3,916 MW of new renewable-energy capacity under the country’s 20-year energy plan, the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme. Also, in Medupi and Kusile, the country is constructing two $18.8-billion coal-fired
Photo courtesy Genie/Terex Corp. Falls are the leading cause of death in construction, OSHA says. Related Links: IPAF's Accident Database IPAF Expands in North America Overturns and falls from height were the two leading causes of aerial-work-platform fatalities globally in the first half of the year, according to new data from the International Powered Access Federation.The data, which U.K.-based IPAF has collected since 2012, each year consistently point to machine overturns and falls from height as the two leading causes of death among people working on or near lifts, with electrocution, entrapment and mechanical failure taking up the balance. In the
Related Links: Left Coast Lifter Arrives at Tappan Zee Bridge New Tappan Zee Bridge Passes Milestone With Pile Cap Installation With just a few feet to spare, the Left Coast Lifter successful squeezed under the 60-year-old Tappan Zee Bridge on Oct. 8 as crews positioned it to begin building a replacement structure.The $50-million floating crane, with a lifting capacity of 1,750 metric tons, was ballasted with about 2.5 million gallons of water inside its roughly 400-ft-long, 100-ft-wide barge, so it could draft deep enough to clear the bridge. Prior to the move, the crane was upgraded with fresh wire rope
One of the world's largest floating cranes arrived on Oct. 6 at the site of the new Tappan Zee Bridge near Tarrytown, N.Y., after being fitted with fresh wire rope and undergoing tests this summer to prove the rig was ready to tackle the project's heaviest modules, some of which are expected to weigh up to 1,000 tonnes.
Photo courtesy Lampson Lampson's latest heavy lifter has been updated with hydraulically operated hoists. Related Links: Heavy Lifters: How Much Can You Bench? The World's Biggest Supercranes Heavy-lift specialist Lampson International LLC has finished load-testing its largest crane, the Transi-Lift LTL-3000, which can lift loads weighing 3,000 tonnes and is said to cost more than $25 million.Standing today in Lampson's Kennewick, Wash., facility, the unit was sold in 2010 to Hitachi Transport Ltd. to build a now-delayed Higashidori nuclear powerplant for Tokyo Electric Power Co.The LTL-3000 sports updated technology. "It's a departure from the previous Transi-Lifts in that the hoist
Related Links: Test Drive: 2015 GMC Sierra Denali HD Rules the Roost Looking to Cars, Trucks Step Up Safety A new collision-mitigation technology expected next year from Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems will warn a truck driver when a crash with a stationary vehicle is imminent and—if he or she does not respond fast enough—slow down the truck automatically. Current systems can use the brakes to match the speed of forward-moving vehicles but warn truck drivers only of stopped ones.Believed to be the first of its kind for commercial vehicles in North America, Bendix's next-generation safety technology combines vehicle-stability, adaptive-cruise and
Photo by Tudor Van Hampton/ENR OSHA has delayed crane-operator certification requirements by three years to allow time to re-examine national testing requirements. Related Links: OSHA Delays Crane Operator Testing By Three Years Testing Companies Debate OSHA Crane Operator Delay Representatives of standardized testing companies say that crane-operator exams will continue to be administered, though possibly at a slower pace, as the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration re-examines contentious certification language in its cranes-and-derricks regulation."I think that there will be, unfortunately, a short-term downturn in certification," says Debbie Dickinson, executive director of Crane Institute Certification. But she adds that some
Courtesy Howard I. Shapiro and Associates Operators will now have until Nov. 2017 to obtain a valid certification to run a crane on U.S. construction sites. Related Links: Testing Companies Debate OSHA Crane Operator Delay OSHA Proposes Three-Year Extension for Crane Operator Certification Requirements The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule extending by three years the deadline for crane operators to be tested. Operators will now have until Nov. 10, 2017, to obtain a valid certification to run a crane on U.S. construction sites.Previously, operators had until Nov. 10 of this year to obtain certification.
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