Tag Archive: Editor at Large

Excited to be back at the @caterpillar Edwards Demonstration and Learning Center for a fall trade press event. In-depth presentations. Opera...

The American market is hungry for mini excavators and compact track loaders right now. They are two of the biggest volume categories in off-...

For more than 15 years, Kubota has taken up the mantle of the best-selling compact excavator in the world, according to data from OEM Off-Hi...

Data is the new oil. I heard someone behind me make that statement at an educational session on drones while attending the 20th iteration of...

Earlier this week, I was out in the Pacific Northwest, enjoying the hospitality of the aerial lift experts of Genie. The Terex brand invited...

Continental Engines has a cool new showpiece to proudly display at its offices. Yesterday, the Greenville, S.C.-based engine distributor, wh...

Last week, I was enjoying some suitably spring Minnesota weather. Rain, fog and mud. It was an ideal setting to operate and inspect compact ...

Perkins has been providing tough, dependable diesel engines to power mining, construction, agricultural, industrial and electric power gener...

No one quite pulls together a press event like Caterpillar. They are big. You’re boarding a bus at 7:30 a.m. for all-day discussions w...

Let’s broadly break down the utility vehicle or side-by-side market into four divisions: sport (like those used in racing); pure recre...

Last week, I was enjoying spectacular views of Lake Lanier (a sprawling resort in Georgia about an hour outside of Atlanta). Most of these v...

I need it now. It’s a bratty attitude that is almost customary in our culture. In fact, many companies today have structured businesse...

A diesel engine is conceptually simple. The piston compresses air in the cylinder which raises its temperature. When it’s hot enough t...

Deep in the heart of lower Bavaria, Hatz has been perfecting small engines for more than a century. Its hometown of Ruhstorf an der Rott in ...

To start off my summer, I headed down to Kentucky to hang with some industry friends from Perkins Engines (great people like Nick Morgan and...

We’re getting our boots muddy operating a lot of equipment this spring. One of our big goals for 2018 was to get the Compact Equipment...

Kids and construction. The love affair begins as soon as little ones are just tall enough to peek out the car window and see a mighty excava...

  Charlotte has become a global city-state over the last few decades — the second-largest metro area in the southeastern United S...

Always love the demos @CaterpillarInc press events. Edwards demo area #FTW pic.twitter.com/FQVV9NvbhW — Compact Equipment (@CompactEqu...

Connect is the theme of the 2016 Kubota dealer meeting. We’re making myriad connections at the Gaylord in Grapevine. @KubotaCanadaLtd ...

When I arrived in Peoria last week for Caterpillar‘s spring press event, I was not anticipating the release of a completely new catego...

We love attending Cat press events. Why? Because there’s always a (metric) ton of equipment unveiled. This week, Cat revealed 14 new m...

Champions must constantly train, and in the high-velocity sport of professional Motocross the champions train with Aldon Baker (to the right...