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December 12, 2012 • Vol. XXV • No. 25 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
Inside
ARTBA-Approved...
ACHP Votes to Reduce Bridge Project Delays
Allied Paving Paves Way for Cat Plant…8
The airport will face the challenge of maintaining day-to-day operations while constructing a new 7,000-space parking deck as quickly as possible.
Gregory Pooles Renews Focus on Paving…12
Charlotte Airport Parking Deck Construction Proceeds Quickly By Peter Hildebrandt CEG CORRESPONDENT
Rit chie Br os. Hol ds Auct ion i n Atlan ta…66
Table of Contents ................4 Attachment Section ....29-32 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................34-36 Recycling Section ........37-47 Parts Section ................48-49 Auction Section ..........62-73 Business Calendar ............64 Advertisers Index ..............74
The Charlotte-Douglas International Airport needs more parking. But this location — the sixth busiest airport in the world — also needs to continue functioning as it has been for years. The airport will face the challenge of maintaining day-to-day operations while constructing a
new 7,000-space parking deck as quickly as possible. The airport’s new facility will be used for both hourly parking in front of the terminal as well as contain the rental car ready-return facilities for the rental cars operating on the field. Currently the rental operation is adjacent to the terminal facility in an area that will be used see AIRPORT page 26
Ritchie Bros. to Hold First Auction in China in 2013 Ritchie Bros. will be holding its first unreserved public auction in China during Spring 2013. Although relatively new to the Chinese heavy equipment market, unreserved industrial auctions have been a quick and easy
method for equipment buyers and sellers to conduct business on a global scale. Ritchie Bros. will bring the certainty of unreserved auctions to Chinese equipment buyers and sellers now that the company’s wholly owned foreign
enterprise application has been approved by the Chinese government — making it the first foreign auction company to receive this approval. Ritchie Bros. has formally leased land in the Tianzhu see RITCHIE page 54
A change in the way the federal government reviews bridge projects for possible historical significance — one longadvocated by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) — could save taxpayers an estimated $78 million and reduce wait times for repair projects on more than 196,000 U.S. bridges. A Nov. 16 decision by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) will allow the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to streamline the historic preservation process for concrete and steel bridges built after 1945 by allowing the projects to go through the regulatory review process as a group, rather than individually. In an Oct. 1 letter supporting the change, ARTBA noted that the approach is similar to how the agency dealt with historic preservation issues impacting rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Interstate Highway System (IHS) under the prior surface transportation reauthorization law. At that time, ARTBA similarly supported exempting large portions of the IHS from historic preservation regulations by identifying areas with historic value beforehand. ARTBA said the new review process “recognizes while there will certainly be instances where active steps to preserve historical portions of the bridges will be necessary, the majority of bridge improvements in this class will not affect anything of historical significance.” For more information, visit www.artba.org.