Productivity

04/02/2022

In a UK first Wooldridge Group purchases a new JCB 245XR fitting the machine with an Engcon tiltrotator & Leica Geosystems 3D machine control and operator Aide is very impressed.

31/01/2022

At the Highways UK event in 2021, Peter Haddock talked to supply chain manager Faye Hodgkinson of Tier 1 contractor Morgan Sindall and strategic manager Chris Matthew of Flannery Plant Hire about social value and carbon reduction.

28/01/2022

Peter Haddock talks to industry leader Neil Williams of Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon, about how the business is working with suppliers on a global and local scale to improve safety, productivity and efficiency, whilst supporting operators in the cab.

19/01/2022

How can the industry achieve Net Zero, cut carbon, improve efficiency and reduce fuel costs?

19/01/2022

Peter Haddock talks to Catplant MD Ronnie Harrod onsite with the impressive new Cat 395. We talk about why he continues to invest in Caterpillar equipment with dealer Finning UK & Ireland to support the tasks required to run the quarry, landfill and waste recovery site near Doncaster.

17/01/2022

Surrey-based Wooldridge Group has recently taken delivery of four new JCB 245 XR reduced tailswing machines as part of its ongoing fleet renewal programme. Founded in 1975, the group owns both demolition and groundworks businesses. It's the groundworks team that had added the new machines, as I discovered when I visited one onsite at a prestigious house building site near High Wycombe for Berkley Homes.

14/01/2022

The dividing trench between UK earthworks PLC and the rest of the construction industry is set to be filled in by three simple words' Design for Machines'. They may be simple words, but they are fundamental to a change in approach and mindset that is accelerating through the sector, from large customers like National Highways and HS2 to Tier 1 contractors like Skanska.

10/01/2022

Peter Haddock visited RJC Plant Hire, where he met Depot Manager Kai Freeman to talk about how its two JCB 525-60E's have been performing.

13/12/2021

Peter Haddock talks to product expert, and Rokbak Regional Sales Manager for EMEA, Kenny Price, about the new RA30 and RA40 recently launched ADT's.

10/12/2021

Lucas Haddock visits the Caterpillar Malaga Development and Training centre talking a tour with Senior Operator Trainer Siggy.