FORMER OWNER OF HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT COMPANY DIES, 84

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Owner, CEO, Chairman of the Board... Daniel L. Reynolds Jr., Former Owner of Highway Equipment Company Dies

Daniel L. Reynolds Jr. of Cranberry township, formerly of McCandless Township, passed away peacefully on Aug. 2, 2022, at his home. He was 84.

Born May 26, 1938, Mr. Reynolds was the son of the late Daniel L. and Ruth (Knight) Reynolds Sr. He married Joan (Hannan) Reynolds on June 4, 1966, and was the loving father of Laura (Garrett) Jones and Thomas Reynolds; brother of Joanne (Bill) Flood, and the late Louise (surviving George) Werner; and grandfather to seven grandchildren.

Mr. Reynolds was the former owner and CEO and chairman of the board of Highway Equipment Company, his family’s business that he led for more than 50 years. Being around construction equipment was his passion and he loved all his employees. Highway Equipment is based in Zelienople, Pa.

In 1933, Daniel L. (Lee) Reynolds Sr., Mr. Reynolds Jr.’s father, established the company in the Pittsburgh area in a one-room building that was both equipment showroom and office.

As such, Mr. Reynolds Jr. grew up around machinery and turned out to be a “a nuts-and-bolts guy.” He went on the payroll in 1954 and came on board full-time in 1961 after earning a business degree from the University of Notre Dame and spending a year in law school. (“It has come in handy over the years,” he once said of his dalliance with the legal profession.)

He was a consummate businessman who not only stewarded the business through five decades of growth and

success, he also was passionate about hard work and exhibited an unrelenting dedication to his employees and customers. “You need to pay attention to business,” he once said, explaining the company’s success. “Keep your nose to the grindstone.” “Dad was a tremendous mentor, a strong leader and family man,” said his son, Thomas H. Reynolds, president and CEO of Highway Equipment Company. “Through all years in this industry, which he loved, his faith and family kept him grounded and focused, so that he was even more effective leading Highway. We will miss him very much.” In addition to Highway Equipment, Mr. Reynolds had many other interests in life that included being an avid golfer and a voracious reader, who Highway Equipment Company photo loved to travel and appreciated a Daniel L. Reynolds Jr. nice glass of red wine. Most important, he treasured the company of family and friends. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made in Mr. Reynolds name to the Sherwood Oaks Fund, the charitable organization supporting Sherwood Oaks (of which he served as board chair), 100 Norman Drive, Cranberry Township, PA 16066 or the charity of your choice. 

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“The AGC supports sensible efforts to effectively incentivize the growth of America’s domestic manufacturing capacity.”

Stephen Sandherr

AGC

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of Biden’s 2021 jobs act.

During the program’s pause, contractors can research domestic construction material sources and stockpile supplies for federally funded transportation construction projects.

The DOT concluded that avoiding the disruption to civil infrastructure (particularly transportation and transit) projects constitutes a rare and appropriate use of the agency’s authority, said John Smolen and Steve Park, Ballard Sphar law firm.

Commonly Used Materials

The IIJA, signed this past November, included a crucial provision that imposes Buy America requirements for construction materials.

The materials list includes stone, sand or gravel, non-ferrous binding agents, plasticand polymer-based products, glass, lumber and drywall.

Smolen and Park said the rule requires, generally, that all iron and steel, all manufactured products and construction materials used in federally funded infrastructure projects must be produced in the United States.

The AGC outlined domestic sourcing requirements in the guidance, issued in April: • Steel and Iron — manufacturing processes from the melting stage to applying coatings occurs in the United States; • Manufactured Products — an end product must be manufactured in the United States and that 55 percent of the total cost of components are sourced from the United States; and • Construction Materials — all processes for manufacturing construction materials are taking place in the United States.

These items include non-ferrous metals, plastic and polymer-based products, glass, lumber, drywall and more, according to the law partners.

But final guidance on the exact meaning of the term “construction material” has not yet been released, said AGC.

The provision requirements are observed by contractors and subcontractors, project sponsors, builders and design and construction professionals.

The White House also “provided preliminary guidance in an OMB memorandum highlighting that a public-interest waiver may be appropriate where a procuring agency determines that the requirements are inconsistent with other important policy goals,” Smolen and Park noted.

The industry reacted quickly. The AGC issued a statement saying the administration’s move to “place unrealistic limitations on firms’ ability to source key materials” when the industry is struggling makes no sense.

Stephen Sandherr, CEO, said AGC “supports sensible efforts to effectively incentivize the growth of America’s domestic manufacturing capacity.”

But the association believes the Biden administration is doubling down on failed procurement policies with its new Buy America mandate, he said.

“This is the kind of red tape initiative that undermines American’s confidence in the federal governments’ ability to effectively use their tax dollars.”

He noted that supply-chain shortages are already prompting firms to avoid bidding on new projects.

He cited as an example an Army Corps of Engineers project that received zero contractor bids because of regional concrete scarcities.

Worse, said Sandherr, the new mandate requires individual federal agencies to run waivers by the White House for materials not made in America.

“This means that contractors, in addition to facing a patchwork of inconsistent, and likely conflicting, guidelines from individual agencies’ waiver processes, will also have to wait as the highest office in the land verifies them.”

He likened the scenario to asking the Department of Education to verify each child’s permission slip to miss a day of school.

“Instead of improving infrastructure for the benefit of communities across the nation, firms will have to spend more time waiting for federal officials to decide whether a project is in compliance with the administration’s latest layer of red tape,” said Sandherr.

Any gains in construction material production the mandate might generate will be offset by the cost of new construction, slower building schedules and hamstrung projects, he said.

“Americans were right to be excited about the potential for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to make our economy more efficient, our commutes faster, our water safer and our economy stronger,” said Sandherr. “But this new mandate will leave too many taxpayers wondering where the trillion dollars went

Construction industry organizations believe the provision puts unrealistic limitations on construction firms’ ability to source key materials, which they say makes no sense.

The AGC noted that federal agencies had voiced concern over whether project sponsors would be able to complete projects with the Buy America provision’s requirements.