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🤖 Equipment rental just entered the AI chat era. @UnitedRentals launched an AI-powered Equipment Agent inside ChatGPT — allowing users to ask about trench depths, lift heights, machine specs, and rental recommendations through a conversational interface. https://t.co/rD71I98hwB

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🛠️ Telematics tells you where the machine is. Maintenance software helps you decide what to do next. This article explores how @Fleetio is helping fleets connect the two: inspections, PMs, work orders, telematics inputs, and more into one workflow. https://t.co/Rnv6NWgGml

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Windshields break. Dump trucks eat rocks. It’s a bad combo. 🤕 @MackTrucks new ImpactShield (with Corning Fusion5 glass) is built to take the hit — and keep trucks working. We also break down Mack's revamped Granite trucks coming out later this year. https://t.co/oPkdzARS3Q

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Construction equipment maintenance should have a plan independent from the overall fleet's plan. It should accomplish 4 goals:

• Identify the mission and vision
• Document responsibilities and performance
• Initiate objectives
• Communicate value

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🤖 AI is everywhere in construction marketing, but according to a new Dewalt survey, only 8% of construction pros actually use it. In this Weekly Iron video, Miles Cooksy breaks down where AI is really showing up on jobsites and why adoption is still slow.

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🌉 Everyone remembers the Golden Gate Bridge. Fewer remember the massive earthmoving that made it possible. In the 1930s, contractor Macco Construction tackled huge cuts through the Marin Hills. He also pioneering rubber-tired pull scrapers from R.G. LeTourneau.

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Komatsu's new 270,000-sq-ft Mesa, Arizona, parts hub is part of a bigger trend: $5B+ invested in North American manufacturing over 10 years; $650M in infrastructure upgrades; new reman capabilities; expanded parts distribution. Komatsu is cooking. https://t.co/mmC3eDITah

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🚧 ADT maintenance starts where the punishment happens most: the tires and articulation joint. This article gathers advice from @JohnDeere, @VolvoCEGlobal, @DevelonNA and @CaterpillarInc on tire selection, haul road conditions, auto-lube systems, and more. https://t.co/rSjxypXNjV

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Owned assets in one system. Rental equipment in another. Spreadsheets everywhere. Sound familiar?
One contractor unified everything and recovered $40K in billing credits. It's visibility. https://t.co/GqiSo5p64S

What's your biggest headache managing rentals?

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🛠️ Horsepower sells, but easy maintenance keeps owners happy. The Takeuchi TL11R3 is the company's first CTL with EH controls, but the undercarriage and service features are just as interesting. What's more important to you:

⚙️ Performance
🔧 Serviceability
💰 Ownership costs?

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⚠️ OTR tires are too expensive to manage reactively. Our advice:

✔️ Monthly fleet surveys
✔️ Pressure discipline
✔️ Tread monitoring
✔️ Wheel and component inspections
✔️ Tire monitoring technology

What's the #1 cause of tire failures in your operation? 🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞

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⚙️For skid steer and CTLs, specs matter, but here's a question more contractors are asking: How does this machine "feel" after 8 hours? Compact loader selection is changing. Learn how with this excellent article via @BobcatCompany

Dig it: https://t.co/4YN7mA3dnh

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🎥 Miss some Weekly Iron videos lately? Here are four worth circling back to. We spotlight: The wild Prinoth Panther T23r rotating crawler carrier; Kubota’s 112-hp SVL110-3 CTL; @TeletracNavman's fleet utilization reality check; and more.

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☀️ Summer heat is brutal on construction equipment grease. Lubrication problems build slowly through heat, longer run times, contamination, and overlooked maintenance habits. This guide via @Chevron explores how summer impacts grease performance. https://t.co/PN6r4LKUE8

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🚨New machine alert: Kobelco SK850LC-11 revamps its biggest excavator.

💪 512 hp
⛏️ 90,598 lbf of bucket force
⚖️ Standard onboard weighing
👀 Three-camera visibility system
📱 10-inch touchscreen

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🐑 Ever wonder why it's called a sheepsfoot roller? Because before compactors existed, contractors used actual sheep. The animals' hooves penetrated and consolidated soil. Engineers copied the concept, placing rows of "feet" around a drum to mimic thousands of tiny hoof prints.

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📡 Telematics is no longer just dots on a map. This story looks at how Solera is combining hardware, AI dashcams, asset tracking, geofencing, engine diagnostics, and fleet software to help contractors move from reactive maintenance to proactive management. https://t.co/3BAfsSnWfD

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"Where is that excavator we rented?" If you've ever asked that question, well this story is for you. One contractor recovered $40,000 in rental credits after gaining visibility into both rented and owned equipment through a single management platform. 💰 https://t.co/Qev4LQF8RD

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🤖 Your fleet probably has telematics data, but are you actually using it? @ClueInsights says contractors are sitting on valuable machine data from systems like VisionLink, JDLink, Komtrax, Samsara, and more. Check out how this platform can use it: https://t.co/nt2XJQ5nYa

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Can an articulated dump truck do more than haul dirt? Some contractors are converting ADTs into scraper tractors to boost utilization, reduce idle iron, and tackle mass excavation with equipment already in the fleet. Not everyone agrees it's a good idea. https://t.co/2WV6MirtRr