WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued stronger worker safety guidance to help employers and workers implement a coronavirus prevention program and better identify risks which could lead to exposure and contraction. Last week, President Biden directed OSHA to release clear guidance for employers to [...]
Demand for Nonresidential Construction and Public Works Will Decline Amid Ongoing Pandemic Concerns, Worsening State and Local Budgets as Association Officials Call for New Recovery Measures Construction spending in December exhibited sharply varied trends, with downturns from a year earlier in every private category, mixed results for public construction, and double-digit increases in residential construction, according [...]
Average rental revenue declined 1.5 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to respondents to the Baird/RER equipment rental survey, a modest improvement compared to the third quarter when respondents declined 2 percent. This was a modest improvement compared to the third quarter when respondents declined 2 percent compared to the third [...]
The growth of online used equipment marketplaces, and the need to be listed on more than one website, makes highlighting your equipment online even more important. One growing way to be found by shoppers online is to use Google and Bing shopping websites to find ready equipment buyers. Can Google Shopping Work For Equipment Sellers? Visitors [...]
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which reports economic activity from 25 companies representing a cross section of the $900 billion equipment finance sector, showed their overall new business volume for December was $12.1 billion, down 6 percent year-over-year from new business volume in December 2019. Volume was up [...]
Texas and Vermont Have Worst February-December Losses While Virginia and Alabama Add the Most; Arizona, Delaware Have Worst One-Month Job Losses As California, New Hampshire Top Other States Construction employment in December remained below pre-pandemic levels in two-thirds of the states even though 37 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs from November to [...]
Based on data from website market intelligence firms Alexa and SEMRush, along with data from Google Analytics, here are the fastest-growing equipment marketplace websites in 2020. The list was compiled by tracking the December, 2019 to December, 2020 traffic growth of websites that sell used construction equipment. Fastest Growing Equipment Marketplace Websites In 2020 Here are [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced adjustments to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) civil penalty amounts based on cost-of-living adjustments for 2021. In 2015, Congress passed the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act to advance the effectiveness of civil monetary penalties and to maintain their deterrent effect. Under the [...]
Listing your used construction machines on multiple sites is an approach that many sellers use. Doing so makes sense for lots of reasons: More exposure for your machines, To reach a larger base of buyers, Because some buyers like one website over another, and to Quickly sell excess equipment. According to a poll carried out by [...]
CASE Construction Equipment partners each year with Construction Equipment Magazine to produce the Annual Report & Forecast, an in-depth look at how the previous year in the greater construction industry performed compared to expectations, and what the industry anticipates for the year ahead. It goes without saying that 2020 was not what anyone expected. While many [...]
