Is your equipment secure from thieves? Equipment chop shops and theft rings are on the rise throughout the U.S. including here in New England, according to a recent study by Westwood, Mass.- based ...

Seventy-eight percent of respondents in a survey of businesses used at least one form of financing when acquiring equipment in FY 2015, according to the U.S. Equipment Finance Market Study: 2016-2017 ...

Construction equipment theft is not rare, with 46% of respondents reporting that they have experienced a theft on their job site, and nearly a third, 31%, having been stolen from more than once, ...

In a recent column, my comments covered the need for contractors to do their homework, including determining machine and crew rates, tech rates, burden rates, profit margin, etc. I discussed the ...