Speedy introduces live delivery tracking 12 Dec 18: The latest initiative from Speedy Hire in its drive to improve customer service is live delivery tracking to help customers identify exactly where their equipment is.
Tonic favours JCB dumpers 12 Dec 18: A house-building contractor campaigning for improved site dumper safety has given its seal of approval to JCB’s new JCB 7T-1 Hi-Viz model and bought two of them.
A-Plant cuts rates and capex as profits dip 11 Dec 18: A-Plant has reported modest growth for the first half of its financial year but profit margins have suffered.
A-Plant paid £5m for Hoist-it 11 Dec 18: A-Plant has now disclosed that it paid £5m to acquire Hoist-It, the Wigan-based hirer of rack and pinion hoists.
Bumper dumper order from Essex hire company 11 Dec 18: Essex-based hire firm 1st Call Plant has added 55 Thwaites site dumpers to its fleet.
Quarries declare war on trapping incidents 7 Dec 18: The quarrying industry has declared 2019 as the year that it will eliminate incidents of workers getting trapped in running machine.
Chepstow fleet investment reaches new heights 6 Dec 18: Chepstow Plant International has invested £33.5m in its contract fleet of machinery over the past eight months, resulting in the company’s largest single year investment to date.
Untrained concrete pump operator killed trying to clear blockage 5 Dec 18: A concrete pumping company and its sole director have been fined after an employee was struck and killed by concrete.
Red Rhino enters Japan 5 Dec 18: Red Rhino, a UK manufacturer of crushing equipment, has shipped its first order to its new Japanese dealer.
Caterpillar and robotics firm scrap MoU 4 Dec 18: Caterpillar and Australian robotic technology company FBR have agreed to terminate their memorandum of understanding (MoU).
Balfour Beatty fined £333k after rail crush incident 4 Dec 18: Balfour Beatty and London Underground have been ordered to pay out nearly half a million pounds after a construction worker was crushed by a road rail vehicle.
A-Plant acquires Hoist-It 4 Dec 18: A-Plant has taken over Wigan-based Hoist-It Ltd, a specialist provider of rack and pinion hoists.
HE chooses Mecalac site dumpers 4 Dec 18: HE Services (Plant Hire) has ordered 85 site dumpers from Mecalac Construction Equipment UK.
Tipper truck driver killed in spoil heap spill 3 Dec 18: A contractor has been fined £45,000 after the driver of a tipper lorry was killed by his vehicle toppling on a spoil heap.
US robotics firm introduces full-body exoskeleton 30 Nov 18: US-based Sarcos Robotics has introduced an all-electric, battery-powered, full-body industrial exoskeleton that it said can allow a human operator to lift and manipulate up to 90kg for extended work sessions.
Cat introduces telematics app for mobile devices 30 Nov 18: Caterpillar has developed a mobile app that enables equipment owners to see on their mobile telephone how and where their machines are running.
Ashtead reveals succession plan 29 Nov 18: Geoff Drabble, chief executive of A-Plant parent company Ashtead since 2007, will step down next year.
Travis Perkins adds 500 JCB diggers and dumpers 29 Nov 18: Builders’ merchant chain Travis Perkins has added 500 new JCB machines to its Tool Hire division through a purchase order worth more than £7m.
CITB sells card scheme and outsources hundreds of jobs 29 Nov 18: The Construction Industry Training Board has agreed the sale of the Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS) and struck a deal to outsource 337 back-office jobs.
Groundforce introduces its largest prop 29 Nov 18: Hire firm Groundforce, which specialises in excavation support equipment, has launched what it claims is the largest proprietary strut on the market.
