How to Make Sure Batteries Start Equipment Reliably as Voltage Draws Grow

Here’s how your heavy-duty battery maintenance program can get consistent starts from continually improving battery technology

December 5, 2018

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Keeping a battery ready to start a vehicle in all conditions is largely a matter of getting it fully recharged between each start. Innovations such as high-power-density alternators and absorbed-glass-mat and spiral-cell battery construction have made this easier, but vehicle electrical loads continue to climb. Maintenance on new battery styles has changed but it is easier, and certainly no less essential.

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Komatsu Expands Dealer Network with Core Machinery Acquisition

Caterpillar Updates Excavator Line with Grade Tech, New Interface and Payload Upgrades

Training & Education

CM Labs Releases Walkaround Inspection to Motor Grader and Articulated Dump Truck Training Packs

CM Labs Simulations, Inc.

CM Labs’ walkaround inspection exercises are designed to help trainees quickly and effectively learn how to perform inspections.

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Why Ammonia Engines Haven't Taken the Lead Yet

Although there is an incentive to improve the ammonia engine and fuel capabilities and to create a better ammonia engine option, it has not been easy. Ammonia still has a way to go before it can be widely used in engines.

Although ammonia has not been fully nailed down as a fuel just yet, there is ongoing testing and research occurring to find out whether ammonia should be one of the top alternative fuels out there.

How the California Emission Laws Affect Diesel Vehicles

With harsher rules in place, California has been able to address issues that the federal rules were not likely to tackle. California has since been very influential in many areas of the country.

California has played the role of a kind of experimental state. The rest of the country watches to see what happens as California continues to invoke strict regulations.

International Code Council Reveals 2024 Plumbing Code and Mechanical Code

International Code Council

The new changes to the International Plumbing Code and International Mechanical Code will provide the most substantial format changes to the International Codes in 25 years.

The 2024 IPC improves public health through enhanced waste management requirements and plumbing system resilience to natural hazards.

What Contractors Really Think About EPDs

We spoke to five producers who have already completed Environmental Product Declarations, in an effort to gauge the truth about the process, benefits, and what it looks like from the other side.

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What Everyone in the Asphalt Industry Needs to Know About EPDs

National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA)

If you are a producer, paver, or even a maintenance professional, NAPA's Director of Sustainable Pavements, Joseph Shacat wants you to be ahead of the curve when it comes to Environmental Product Declarations.

At center, Joseph Shacat, NAPA Director of Sustainable Pavements, during the Sustainability Committee at NAPA Annual 2023

ANSI Experts Explain New Standards for MEWPs

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

Learn the ins and outs of ANSI’s new MEWP standards and what they mean for equipment owners and users.

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Equipment Management

How to Sell the Telematics ‘Sizzle’ to Construction Company Leadership

Focus on a few key benefits that can lead to a tangible ROI, along with an implementation plan that will help ensure expectations are met

Easy-to-understand graphs are essential when presenting data to leadership. Kevin Schlangen created simple line graphs of monthly progress in target areas. Here are a couple of graphs depicting change in “aggressive driving behaviors” that contribute to unsafe conditions and excessive fuel use.

Fleet Maintenance

9 Questions to Ask Before Integrating a Fleet Management System

At what size do you actually start considering moving manual processes into an automated FMS system?

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How Social Media is Attracting Younger Workers to Construction

A steady drumbeat of engaging posts on the right social media platforms gets the attention of job seekers inside and outside the construction industry

The average age of an employee at Turner Mining Group, where virtually all recruitment is online, is 27.

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Air Conditioning Essentials That Keep Machine Operators Working Cool

Master essential housekeeping chores as well as clues to refrigerant leaking to ensure comfortable operators keep construction sites productive

The most important regular maintenance in an air-conditioning system applies where the refrigerant changes state. Air flow is essential in the condenser and evaporator, and it takes deliberate maintenance to keep these systems working on construction sites.

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How GPS Rovers Improve Construction Project Management

Technology’s ability to accurately measure projects with unprecedented speed offers contractors new ways to monitor progress and maintain quality control

Trimble’s SPS986 GNSS Smart Antenna can function as either a rover or base station. Rovers are common where machines are using GPS-assisted grade control, but their speed and accuracy in measuring site features makes them valuable even without grade automation on site.

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