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® March 7 2018 Vol. LVI • No. 5
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Repairing America’s Highway Bridges By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
SEPTA Gives Nod to $1B High-Speed Rail Extension...8
Beck Equipment — Meeting Customer Needs for 50 Years...12
America’s highway bridges need repair. Everyone agrees more money needs to be spent on them. So many bridges are “structurally deficient” that every local TV news team gets to pose a nervous-looking reporter on a local bridge and infer that the structure is apt to collapse the next time they drive across it — if it doesn’t implode on camera under the weight of the reporter. In reality, of course, such collapses are extremely unlikely. Much of the consternation surrounding the nation’s bridges can be explained in the old saw about lies, damned lies, and statistics. That is, there are lots and lots of numbers attesting to the less-than-pristine condition of tens of thousands of highway bridges in the United States, but they do not necessarily add up to impending catastrophe. “It sounds very severe to a layman,” said Glenn A. Washer, a professional engineer and professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri. Washer is not see BRIDGES page 40
Savage Equipment Adds Doosan DX420LC-5 Excavator to Fleet...18
New York State has 1,837 bridges and elevated roadways that are deemed structurally deficient, including the iconic Brooklyn Bridge.
Komatsu Acquires Pine Bush Equipment
Table of Contents.................... 4 Truck & Trailer Section.... 59-65 Recycling Section............ 69-93 Business Calendar.............. 102 Attachment & Parts Section...... ...................................... 103-110 Auction Section............ 114-129 Advertisers Index................ 130
The PBE Group, consisting of Pine Bush Equipment Co. Inc. and East PBE Inc., entered into a purchase agreement Feb. 5, 2018, with Komatsu, through its subsidiary F and M Equipment Ltd., to purchase the assets of PBE group subject to a period of due diligence and final approval of Komatsu Pine Bush Equipment’s Newington, Conn., location. Ltd. (with the exception of cy our parents began as we celebrate 61 years the Kubota line of equipment and parts). “The Boniface family felt strongly that this in business, and although we will not be the [purchase agreement] will strengthen the lega- owners, the Boniface Family remains deeply
committed to you, your business, and our mutual well-being and success,” said Pine Bush Equipment in a prepared statement. “Over the years the business landscape will change. We must adapt and be flexible and responsive to these changes. We must do what’s best for you, our esteemed customers and our group of dedicated employees.” see BONIFACE page 98