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October 15 2022 Vol. XXVIII • No. 21
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Southeastern Equipment Hosts Case’s Minotaur Roadshow in Ohio...12
By Dick Rohland CEG CORRESPONDENT
Surrounded by the rolling farm and prairie land of central Minnesota, road crews are months into an ambitious highway improvement project to widen a 9-mi. section of highway from two to four lanes. This is the first of a two-bid project to add capacity over a 16-mi. section of Hwy-23 between the Minnesota communities
Dick Rohland photo
Brooks Tractor Celebrates Grand Opening of New Sparta Facility...26
GPS technology was put to good use on the muck pockets to guide the operators to stable ground.
see EXCAVATION page 90
Recycling Today Events Hosts Inaugural Scrap Expo in Kentucky...37 Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Aggregate & Recycling Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37-49 Attachments & Parts Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55-61 Truck & Trailer Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66-76 Snow & Ice Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82-87 Auction Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92-101 Business Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Buy Clean Initiative … Explained Interagency Task Force Readies to Issue Instructions Instructions for integrating President Joe Biden’s CEG CORRESPONDENT Buy Clean Initiative are on the way, compliments of an interagency task force overseeing the procurement program. Agencies will receive the instructions, which prioritize the purchase of steel, concrete, asphalt and flat glass that feature lower emission levels in their manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal. These materials account for 98 percent of the gov- Federal agencies will prioritize the purchase of ernment’s purchased construction material, according steel, concrete, asphalt and flat glass that feature lower emission levels in their manufacturto the task force. By Lucy Perry
see INITIATIVE page 78
ing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal.