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October 15, 2011 • Vol. XVIII • No. 21 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com
Inside
D.H. Griffin Looks Back at 9/11 Efforts
Paladin Holds Dealer Training Day...30
The I35 corridor in Duluth was very narrow before the improvements were made; forcing the road to close down to one lane each direction between the months of May and October over the past two years. United Auctioneers Hosts Sale in Novi...90
New Road to Open in Busy Minnesota Tourist Town By Dick Rohland CEG CORRESPONDENT
Bi ds St rong f or Rit chie Br os. in Chicag o... 92
Table of Contents ............4 Snow & Ice Section..33-38 Truck & Trailer Section .... ..................................43-49 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ....53-67 Attachment Section.79-84 Parts Section ................85 Auction Section ................ ......................Starts on 89 Business Calendar ........96 Advertisers Index ..........98
Road workers and their equipment will soon complete an ambitious project to rehabilitate a 10 mi. (16 km) stretch of I-35 leading into the core of Duluth, Minn., an upper Midwest tourist destination and major international shipping port. Much of the work was confined
to a 4 mi. (6.4 km) stretch of the road and just over two mi. (3.2 km) of that segment became a total reconstruction of the highway. I-35 stretches for nearly 1,600 mi. (2,560 km) between the sometimes arctic climate of northern Minnesota and the southern, more desert-like climate of Laredo, Texas. Work on this most northern portion of I-35,
By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
noted that the local employment data remains relatively split as private sector demand increased and public sector activity declined more rapidly during the past year. “The construction market is caught between increases in private sector demand
Not every day does a visitor to an unprecedented public disaster show up to volunteer with recovery efforts and almost immediately become de facto manager of the project. But the eleventh day of September 2001 was not just any day in New York City. That day the city became the target of coordinated terrorist attacks that quickly spread to Washington, D.C. After an airliner was intentionally crashed into each of the World Trade City towers in New York City — with a third flown into the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth into the ground before it could hit another Washington target — the world in general, and America in particular, was stunned. David H. Griffin Jr. wasn’t stunned for long. Two days after the towers fell, with concrete dust still covering lower Manhattan and authorities
see ANALYSIS page 94
see GRIFFIN page 42
see OPENING page 52
Demands From Private Sector Boost Industry Employment Construction employment increased in 146 out of 337 metropolitan areas between August 2010 and August 2011, declined in 145 and stayed level in 46, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released Sept. 26 by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials
Piles of debris stood 50 ft. (15 m) high when Griffin arrived at the scene.