Monthly Archive: March 2018
Robots Will Disrupt Construction Industry There’s been a lot of media coverage over the past couple of years about how workers in many industries, construction included, will soon be replaced by robots and artificial...
Aggregate Haulers for big LA construction projects find logistics critical he 519 miles of L.A.’s freeway system. Dodger Stadium. City Hall. All built with concrete filled with rock and sand washed down from Southern California’s...
Fracking & Oil-Field Poised to Break Records his spring America’s oil companies are expected to produce a record 10 million barrels of American crude a day, largely due to another record that is expected...
A San Francisco, Calif., start-up called Embark completed a coast-to-coast test drive of its autonomous semi-truck, the company said last month. Embark hauled Electrolux refrigerators from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, Fla., in the test...
hen the federal government last raised the gas tax, Hillary Clinton was the first lady of the United States. Mark Zuckerberg was a nerdy nine-year-old in suburban New York. America’s interstate highway system was...
Editor’s note: What follows is a quick tutorial on what diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) is and how truck operators should use it. hat is DEF (diesel exhaust fluid)? DEF is the reactant necessary for the...
Fly ash is a fine powder created by the burning of pulverized coal in electric generation power plants. Fly ash is a pozzolan, a substance containing aluminous and siliceous material that forms cement in...
he National Tank Truck Carriers issued the following statement in response to the National Association of Truck Stop Operators’ new report, “Rest Area Commercialization and Truck Parking Capacity 2018.” The report updates a 2010...
ermian’s production growth – the main driver of the second shale revolution as oil prices crept higher over the past 12 months — may be limited not by geological or technological constraints, but by...
on Jordan picked up a handful of damp sand as it cascaded off a broad conveyor belt, eventually bound for trucks or rail cars that will take it to eager buyers in South Texas...