Can You Pass a Highway Bill Without Earmarks?

In her latest blog, Fawn Johnson, correspondent with the National Journal poses this question to the transportation community.

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Mobile camera systems can monitor construction sites constrantly, offering specific intelligence about site conditions and personnel to anyone with access to the online software.

3 Ways IP Security Cameras Help Maintain COVID-19 Construction Health Guidelines

While construction nationwide has largely resumed after the initial pandemic shut-downs, the primary issue now is how to stay in business under unrelenting threat of disease transmission

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Why Contractors Risk Getting Stuck With the Bill for the Social Security Payroll Tax Deferral

The cost:benefit analysis of President Trump’s campaign-season tax ‘loan’ for employees is convincing big employers to opt out, but the program holds a special risk to construction firms

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We Need to Talk About Suicide in the Construction Industry

An often-overlooked part of workplace safety is mental health; and as the leading occupation for death by suicide, it is time to take psychological safety in the construction industry seriously.

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We Need to Talk About Suicide in the Construction Industry

An often-overlooked part of workplace safety is mental health; and as the leading occupation for death by suicide, it is time to take psychological safety in the construction industry seriously.

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The Contractor's Best Friend Podcast: Should You Buy or Rent New Construction Equipment?

How can contractors determine if it's better to buy or rent their construction equipment?

Built Technologies' Lien Waiver Software Shortcuts Paperwork and Gets Payment Faster

How Built For Contractors integrates with your software to automate the lien paper trail, speeding up payments and slashes administrative burdens.

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CBO: Highway Trust Fund will be Exhausted in 2021

Without Congressional action the Highway Trust Fund, the mechanism for funding highway construction, will be exhausted next fiscal year

Continuing to go the easy route bidding any project against any competition at any price to any customer won’t improve your bottom-line.

Make the Right Construction Bids and Make More Money

Bidding more work, at low price, is never the answer to growing a successful construction business and making money.

2020 Contractors' Top 50 New Products: 50 Productivity Boosters for Your Construction Fleet

In this industry exclusive awards program, construction equipment owners and end users determine the top new products of 2020.

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Announces Over $1.2 Billion in Infrastructure Grants to Airports

More than $1.2 billion in airport safety and infrastructure grants will be awarded through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 405 airports in 50 states and U.S. territories.

Trimble Earthworks Grade Control version 2.0 features Horizontal Steering Control, which automatically controls the machine to follow any horizontal alignment.

10 Technologies Improving All Aspects of Construction

Emerging technologies are enabling operators to more precisely survey and plan the elements of a construction project, perform various construction tasks, and develop and maintain a vital database of construction fleet data.

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Top 10 Most-Read Construction Stories: Week of August 24

Jobsite racism stalls Vegas convention expansion, is COVID-19 work-related insured? best practices to cut construction waste, how toll road leasing could fund infrastructure

EEOC Sues Contractor CCC Group for Racial Harassment

Black employees at construction company’s Ravena, NY, worksite were persistently subjected to racist insults and a noose, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges

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Vandalism of Black Foreman’s Office Stops Work at Las Vegas Convention Center Jobsite

Latest crime in a rash of "racially motivated damage" on construction sites helps explain why an industry starving for labor employs just half of the available black workers

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The Contractor's Best Friend Podcast: Getting the Most Out of Machine Features Part 2

How do contractors stay on top of the ever changing improvements and updates to construction equipment?

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Study Shows States Can Lease Toll Roads to Fund Infrastructure, Pay Off Debt

Amid recession and plummeting revenues, monetizing state-owned toll roads can fund needed transportation projects or pay off debt and other liabilities.

Why Your Construction Business Needs to Compete Online and How to Do It

In this Digging Deeper podcast Gearflow offers tips on online marketing for your business.

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Construction Economic and Employment Outlook with ThinkWhy’s Jay Denton

A look at trends in construction employment prior to the pandemic and how things have changed, the latest employment data and what the future may hold.

During the pandemic, buyers and sellers have been 'pushed' into recognizing the efficiencies of the online equipment auction model.

COVID-19 Pushes Construction Equipment Buyers and Sellers Online

As live auctions shut down, it accelerated the trend to online buying and selling of heavy equipment.

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[NEWS TRACKER] Economists Concerned US Headed Into Dangerous Economic Territory

Economists are concerned that recent Labor Department statistics fail to show the true picture of the economy due to the virus pandemic; plus more construction industry news on the August 20, 2020, edition of Construction News Tracker.

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While Building Starts Rise, Nonbuilding Starts Plunge Lower in July

Total construction starts fell 7% in July due to a significant pullback in the nonbuilding segment.

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[TRANSPORTATION CHAIN] Technology Drives Industries’ Growth and Recovery During and Post-pandemic

The Transportation Chain team discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the trend toward new technology adoption; the evolving market conditions; prospects for rebuilding the workforce; and what may lie ahead.

TruckIt CEO Shares Benefits of E-ticketing

Pace Davis discusses the advantages of e-ticketing in place of paper-based systems.

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Top 10 Most-Read Construction Stories the Week of August 10

How COVID-19 is creating construction workforce opportunities, legal implications of removing pickup truck boxes, advances in wheeled asphalt pavers, how coronavirus makes prefabrication more profitable

Opportunities to Grow the Construction Workforce Amidst the Pandemic

ABC’s Greg Sizemore digs into the opportunities the construction industry has to rebuild its workforce during and because of the pandemic environment.

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Both ABC's Construction Backlog Indicator and Contractor Optimism Fall in July

"The implication is that while many contractors will continue to work through backlog for the balance of 2020, it may be difficult to secure work for 2021," says Anirban Basu, ABC's chief economist.

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The Contractor's Best Friend Podcast: Getting the Most Out of Machine Features Part 1

Brad Humphrey and the Caterpillar experts dig into how to maximize the ability of your construction equipment by leveraging the knowledge and services of Caterpillar dealers.