04/12/2024 | Environmental

Irish manufacturer EXVO has entered the battery powered market with a new range of wheeled and soon to be launched tracked skid steers, both with removable batteries.

29/11/2024 | Productivity

How is mobile mapping and drone data combining with AI tools to help us map the UK?

29/11/2024 | People-Skills

🎥 The Big Bauma Show Build-Up: Planning, People, and Purpose with Peter Haddock & Jack Saward

28/11/2024 | Productivity

To find out more Peter Haddock took a walk around the heavy excavator facility in Uttoxeter with Assembly Manager Tom Whitaker.

27/11/2024 | People-Skills

Dive into a JCB apprenticeship, where incredible opportunities await just like those Tilly Beene experienced!

27/11/2024 | Environmental

The Biggest, Greenest Machine we have ever seen… In this video, Peter Haddock got to ride in and chat about the LiuGong Europe DR50C-E rigid dump truck with Kim Massey of the Rental Group in Norway at its Total Electric Solutions Day.

26/11/2024 | Productivity

The Sunbury on Thames-based Groundworks and Civil Engineering company has purchased a range of Hitachi tracked excavators, including one ZX210LC-7 and four ZX130LCN-7’s.

26/11/2024 | Productivity

For this episode, Peter Haddock talks to Mark Sabbato of Kier Transportation about water and drainage next to attenuation ponds on the £460m National Highways funded project. 

26/11/2024 | Productivity

“Sites need to know what is under the ground, how to protect operators from hitting utilities, all whilst doing things more efficiently.

25/11/2024 | Productivity

Develon and Leica Geosystems create a tailored 3D Machine Control solution for its DD130-7 Dozer

25/11/2024 | Productivity

It's a first for 16 year old Lucas at the ‪Liebherr Group‬ 75th anniversary in Germany, where he had the opportunity to interview Berenike Nordmann on a LTM 1100 5.3, the product specialist on wheeled and crawler cranes.

22/11/2024 | People-Skills

Peter Haddock recently spoke to Will Sherwood at its two day training session devised by its leadership team to upskill colleagues at the Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon 'The School' in Shropshire.

22/11/2024 | People-Skills

Yesterday, Lucas attended On The Tools Awards 2024, where he spoke to Steve Kerslake, the founder of Construction Sport. Lucas spoke to Steve to gain a better understanding of construction sport and how the charity helps people in construction.

21/11/2024 | People-Skills

A game-changer for avoiding buried utilities and much more, introducing NUAR, the National Underground Asset Register. At Highways UK, Peter Haddock caught up with NUAR expert Holger Kessler of AtkinsRealis for an in-depth look at how it will transform the industry.

20/11/2024 | Productivity

Seeing underground enhances safety and reduces utility strikes for Explore Plant and Transport Solutions as it invests in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) with Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon.

20/11/2024 | Productivity

Peter Haddock recently visited Aaron Walsh, its founder, to talk about his journey, which started going ‘all in’ in 2019 to battling through the pandemic.

20/11/2024 | People-Skills

Seeing underground enhances safety and reduces utility strikes for Explore Plant and Transport Solutions as it invests in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) with Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon.

19/11/2024 | Productivity

Launched in March 2024, the compact crane has an all new ‘active assistance’ operating system.

18/11/2024 | People-Skills

Peter Haddock talks to Luke Thomas, workshop engineer at United Plant Services 

15/11/2024 | Environmental

What's the new EXVO EX245R electric Skid Steer like to operate? Peter Haddock spoke to Conor Traynor after he demonstrated the machine in a builders merchant yard. 

15/11/2024 | Productivity

In this episode, Peter Haddock talks to Frank Gowdy of MTS Suction Systems UK Ltd, who highlights key components and talks through the assembly process in the factory in Germersheim, Germany.

14/11/2024 | People-Skills

From making work sites more sustainable to recruiting and retaining tomorrow’s workforce, the Construction Plant-hire Association’s (CPA) 9th Annual Conference held on 7th November 2024 at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre near Coventry discussed future trends and challenges facing hire firms.

14/11/2024 | Safety

The JCB 245X from Flannery was put to work on the Costain Group PLC M6 motorway project.

13/11/2024 | Environmental

Exciting electric moments at the Rental Group ‘Total Electric Solutions Event’ in Norway, with our new electric guru, Kim Massey.

08/11/2024 | People-Skills

“Hire rates will always be a challenge. And we have to work with the Government and stakeholders to be realistic about the targets they are trying to set for the sector…..” says Steve