It’s a new year, and everyone makes resolutions: Lose weight, stop smoking, eat more vegetables, start exercising. But what about business resolutions?
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A Great Year for Rock Products
By any measure, 2014 was a banner year for Rock Products. With a healthy increase in advertising revenue and ever-expanding editorial coverage, our media reach has never been greater.
Read MoreFrac Sand Market Ready to Explode
There is sand, sand and more sand in our future.
Read MoreTransportation Empowerment Act Fails Us
Let’s get this out of the way right now. The Transportation Empowerment Act is bad for the aggregates industry.
Read MoreYour Comments are Needed
MSHA has published a proposed rule that would amend its existing civil penalty regulations by simplifying the criteria for assessing health and safety violations and increasing emphasis on more serious safety and health conditions, thus providing “improved safety and health for miners.”
Read MoreGet Out of the Pits
A number of years ago, there was a concerted effort among quarry professionals to rid our industry vernacular of the word “pit.” I think it is time to revisit that.
Read MoreThe People Have Spoken
American families heading out for their summer vacation are in for a rude awakening. There is a good chance they are going to lose the family minivan in a pot hole the size of a meteor crater.
Read MoreClock is Winding Down for Highway Bill
It is getting to be “situation critical” for passing a new highway bill. On the heels of the Obama Administration’s Grow America Act, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved S.2322, the MAP-21 Reauthorization Act, a long-term bipartisan bill to reauthorize the nation’s transportation programs for six years at current funding plus inflation, illustrating broad bipartisan support for…
Read MoreGrow America Act a Good Start
If the Foxx is guarding the henhouse, in this case it isn’t a bad thing.
Read MoreIs ConExpo-Con/Agg Too Big?
By now, you have likely heard the news: ConExpo-Con/Agg 2014 was big. REAL big. The show’s total registration of 129,364 soared past the last edition of the show achieving the second-highest attendance in history. The show also set new records for exhibit space, number of exhibitors and education tickets sold.
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