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March 17, 2012 • Vol. IXX • No. 6 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com
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Glass Covered Center to Be Campus Landmark By Dick Rohland CEG CORRESPONDENT
Patten Industries Visits Cat Headquarters...10
John Deere Dealer Pioneer Durfee Dies...16
After a year of construction on a small, outside corner of their campus, students, staff and visitors of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., are seeing the school’s new Carol Young Anderson and Dennis L. Anderson Student Center take shape. Named in honor of the Anderson’s, major benefactors for the project, the new, three story 133,170 sq. ft. (12,385 sq m) student center will be stationed on Snelling Avenue, one of St. Paul’s busiest arterials. With a three story, curved, glass covered facade facing outward, university officials are marking the new student center as a “welcoming face” to the urban community and a “landmark” for the university see CENTER page 56
A Cat 330C and 336D hydraulic excavator share tight working space with a Komatsu PC300LC excavator as they dig out nearly 45,000 cu. yds. (34,425 cu m) of sandy material for Hamline University’s new student center.
Highway Bill Stalls Again in Senate, Could Cost Jobs Wis. Gov. Speaks at Nor trax Inc. ...22
By Joan Lowy ASSOCIATED PRESS
Table of Contents ............4 Paving Section ........37-47 Parts Section ................64 Skid Steer & Attachments Section ......................67-81 Auction Section ......86-97 Business Calendar ........87 Advertisers Index ..........98
As many as 800,000 workers could lose their jobs, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., trying unsuccessfully to persuade Republicans senators to limit debate on the $109 billion bill, which would overhaul transportation
WASHINGTON (AP) Lawmakers are under pressure to find a way to keep federal aid flowing to highway and transit programs beyond the end of this month after a transportation bill failed March 6 to clear a procedural hurdle in the Senate. The government’s power to spend federal Highway Trust Fund money on By Bruce Schreiner transportation programs and to levy ASSOCIATED PRESS federal gas and diesel taxes that support the trust fund are due to expire March Kentucky awarded a $7 million emergency con31. If that were to happen, states could tract March 8 to repair a damaged bridge spanning have difficulty paying for construction a key traffic artery in the state’s popular western projects already in progress and would lakes region and set a timetable to finish work likely be reluctant to commit to new before the summer tourism season. projects, lawmakers and transportation Gov. Steve Beshear said the plan is to reopen interest groups said.
programs and keep them from running out of money for about two years. Leaders in both the House and Senate are struggling to pass bills that would lay out see BILL page 52
Ky. Awards Contract to Repair Bridge the stricken Eggners Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake by Memorial Day weekend. The bridge has been closed since a cargo ship tore off a 322-ft. section of the 80-year-old bridge on Jan. 26. The repairs will take less time and cost considerably less than officials had expected, the governor said. “This will help save the crucial summer tourism see BRIDGE page 30