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June 21, 2017 • Vol. XXX • No. 13 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
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McMaster Signs Law Meant to Slow Down Drivers
Warrior Tractor Celebrates Milestone…18
Carolina CAT Opens New CAT Rental Store…24
According to Mike Rogalski, the program manager on the project for the Jacksonville District of the USACE, the engineering firm of Hayward Baker Inc., used a trench remixing and design technique that was licensed from a Japanese company.
Twenty-Five-Year Project to Safeguard Fla. Residents Stimmel Steps Down as CEO of Ascendum…28
Table of Contents................ 4 Attachment & Parts Section ...................................... 32-37 Truck & Trailer Section........ ...................................... 38-40 Recycling Section........ 47-60 Auction Section............ 80-84 Business Calendar............ 84 Advertisers Index.............. 86
The gigantic and complex task of rehabilitating the Herbert Hoover Dike around South Florida’s Lake Okeechobee may take close to 25 years when it is finished, but the benefits of the work should ensure the safety of area residents for many decades after that. The huge, 730-sq.-mi. lake, located between West Palm Beach and Fort Myers, is the seventh largest freshwater basin in the United States. Besides serving as the headwaters of the Everglades, the shallow lake, averaging only ft. deep, is also a fish, wildlife and recreation area, as well as a water source for several cities and communities in that part of Florida. But because the lake is located in a tropical state that often sees heavy rain and powerful storms, high water levels and flooding have been a concern there for more than 100 years. The impetus for building the dike initially was to protect local residents after a pair of deadly hurricanes in the area killed thousands in the late 1920s. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) was then tasked with erecting the first of a series of protective barriers around Lake Okeechobee in the 1930s during the administration of President Herbert Hoover. When completed in 1938, the new Herbert Hoover Dike was composed of gravel, rock, limestone, shell and sand. Work continued off and on over the decades to expand the dike so that now it stretches 143 miles around the lake’s perimeter. However, the dike’s advancing age and the threat of more powerful hurricanes, along with telltale signs of water seepage through the old earthen dam, emboldened the federal governBy Eric Olson
CEG CORRESPONDENT
see FLORIDA page 30
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Gov. Henry McMaster ceremoniously signed a law that aims to slow down drivers in highway construction zones to protect workers. The Republican governor held the ceremony at the state Department of Transportation maintenance facility in Aiken. A driver who disobeys traffic control signs or disregards orange cones can be charged with endangering a highway worker. The fine is up to $1,000 if no one is injured. It increases to up to $5,000 if injury results, depending on the severity. It took effect with McMaster’s signature May 19. The bill was approved unanimously after two DOT workers were struck and killed in a hit and run near North Augusta in March. The legislative effort began in 2013 after a highway worker was killed in Williamsburg County in 2013. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
AEM Reveals Steps to Rebuild Infrastructure The Association of Equipment Manufactures (AEM) released The U.S. Infrastructure Advantage, a report that outlines steps lawmakers should take to reclaim the country’s infrastructure advantage. Currently ranked 11th in the world in infrastructure competitiveness, equipment manufacturers believe it is essential to modernize and rebuild America’s core infrastructure network in order to retain the United States’ position as the world’s strongest economy. see AEM page 84