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Blog 5/24/2021
Buying an Excavator? 12 Things to Consider During the Demonstration Over the years I’ve helped a lot of customers evaluate different excavator types and sizes to help ensure they’re buying an excavator best matched to their particular type of work. During a...
Volvo Compact Electric Equipment Lineup
Blog 5/17/2021
Electric Construction Equipment vs. Diesel Performance Comparisons As the product manager for electromobility here in North America, I’ve spent a lot of time helping with the design and development of our new compact electric machines. When some people...
Volvo DD128C - Intelligent Compaction and Direct Density
Blog 4/26/2021
Intelligent Compaction Measurement Value vs. Density Direct: What’s the Difference? We’ve seen a lot of advancements in Intelligent Compaction (IC) over the past few years aimed to reduce the guesswork in the paving process. In fact, the Federal Highway Administration...
Volvo Approved Used Equipment
Blog 4/19/2021
Drive Down the Total Cost of Used Construction & Heavy Equipment with Rebuild Options We’ve written several posts in the past answering questions like: When is a machine rebuild a better option than a replacement? When is certified used equipment a better choice? And when it...
Volvo Excavator loading a Volvo Articulated Truck
Blog 3/22/2021
Do You Have the Right Heavy Equipment for the Bid?  The bidding process in the construction industry has become so competitive in recent years that a lot of the small and mid-size contractors out there may feel like they’re working just to...
Volvo L250H loading an A40GFS at Quarry
Blog 3/15/2021
4 Ways to Lower Operating Costs in Earthmoving and Mining The more you spend, the less you make. It’s a pretty simple concept, but one you should focus on from time to time to evaluate how your business is performing. Is your site optimized to...
Volvo Electric Equipment
Blog 3/8/2021
Volvo Electric Equipment: New Opportunities for Heavy Equipment Jobs One of the things I find myself saying quite often about our new Volvo electric excavator and wheel loader and our concept machines is that we don’t even know yet all the interesting ways...
Volvo EX03 Electric Excavator
Blog 2/22/2021
Electric and Autonomous Heavy Equipment: The Future of Construction and Mining With the electrification of cars, buses, trucks and other transport vehicles many years in the making, it’s only natural that construction equipment is joining in. The goals of zero...
Blog 2/15/2021
How Balloon Payments Work for Heavy Equipment Financing Financing can be confusing. If you’ve ever thought to yourself “How does a balloon payment work?” when financing a new piece of heavy equipment, you’re not alone. While some owners and fleet...
Premium Lubricants
Blog 2/1/2021
4 Ways Premium Lubricants Lower Heavy Equipment Costs and Improve Performance When it comes to maintaining your construction equipment, the lubricants you choose matter. If your dealer or OEM recommends premium lubricants, they may cost a bit more up front, but the...
Inspection by a Heavy Equipment Technician
Blog 12/30/2020
5-Step Diagnostics for Construction Equipment Mechanics This year the owner or fleet manager of your company may have turned to you more often to handle heavy equipment repairs, maintenance or even machine down issues. While it makes sense to...
Winter Maintenance for Construction Equipment
Blog 11/30/2020
9 Tips to Keep Your Construction Equipment in Good Shape During the Cold Winter The winter cold is good reason to make sure you and your operators are inspecting machines thoroughly each day and following proper operating procedures to prevent accidental wear and tear,...
Dig Assist for Volvo Excavators
Blog 11/16/2020
How to use Grade Control for Excavators — Volvo Dig Assist: Part 3 We’ve recently made some updates to our Dig Assist machine control system that improve performance, accuracy and safety for excavator operators of all skill levels. With Dig Assist, your...
Volvo Demolition Cleanup Excavator
Blog 11/2/2020
What to Look for in a Demolition Cleanup Excavator When it comes to excavators used for demolition cleanup, many contractors think of them simply as commodities — machines that are interchangeable with other machines and used for the same...
Volvo EC750D Excavator
Blog 10/19/2020
Dos & Don’ts to Increase Machine Trade-In Values Getting the best price and most value out of a trade-in for your construction equipment can sometimes be a challenge — but understanding a few simple do’s and don’ts can help. Things like...
Demolition Excavator Attachments That Improve Efficiency
Blog 10/12/2020
Demolition Excavators: How Processing can Increase your Profits For those who run high-reach demolition excavators, they know tearing down structures efficiently is the key to profitability — but it’s also the machines on the ground that can really add...
Volvo EC950F excavator loading an A60H articulated truck
Blog 9/28/2020
How to size and get the most out of your Mining Excavators and Haulers In mining, it’s important to match excavators to your haul trucks to lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) for these machines. If they’re mismatched, you’ll be inefficient and burn extra...
Volvo Articulated Hauler A60H and Crawler Excavator EC950E
Blog 9/21/2020
Why the Volvo EC950F and A60H Make the Perfect Pair You know how it feels when you see a bottleneck of haul trucks on your site — knowing they’re lined up waiting to be loaded, all while fuel continues to burn, machine hours tick away, and...
Blog 9/8/2020
How Touchless Construction Machine Diagnosis is Evolving During COVID-19 The recent transition to remote work has prompted an increased reliance on technology and a need to innovate in nearly every business sector. Local brick-and-mortar businesses are...
Blog 8/19/2020
Volvo’s Drive to Electric – Your Questions Answered In 2019, Volvo Construction Equipment became the first construction equipment manufacturer to commit to going fully electric on two full ranges of compact equipment. For those looking to be...
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