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Makinex is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Mi-T-M Corporation based in Peosta, Iowa. Mi-T-M, founded in 1971, is a leading designer and manufacturer of high quality industrial equipment. In line with Makinex growth in the North American Market over the past year, coupled with sales success of our range of Dual Pressure Washer Trolleys around the world, led Makinex to source an experienced partner like Mi-T-M to take their product to the next level.
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CRA’s 2015 Equipment and Party Rental Rally Tradeshow will be held January 26-28 in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the South Point Casino Hotel & Convention Center, a great venue with the convenience of having the convention center and hotel on the same property. Exhibit days are January 27-28. CRA welcomes our newest exhibitors – see the following 21 articles for information about these new exhibitors. Click on "Learn More" for a complete list of tradeshow exhibitors.
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ABC Trading Solutions provides the global trading community with communications needs – flexible voice and data, connectivity, services and mission-critical applications, helping them attain their business targets and meet compliance obligations. They find a company's exact requirements and bring together the products and services that are right for them. Changing regulations, distinctive business goals and regional differences make challenges and requirements unique for every customer. As a technology provider to capital markets worldwide, ABC Trading Solutions' primary goal is to provide solutions to meet business needs.
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American Pneumatic Tools (APT) is a leading provider of exceptional tools for the construction and industrial markets. For decades, the APT brand has represented quality, performance and innovation in the pneumatic tool industry. APT's ever expanding product line now offers a complete range of pneumatic, hydraulic tools, light compaction, concrete finishing and portable power, all with excellent product reliability, competitive pricing, ergonomic designs, and a warranty second to none.
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Arlen & Associates represents EDCO and Groundhog products.

 

Headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California, Atlas Chairs and Tables (ACT) offers a variety of folding chairs, folding tables and event merchandise at low prices! If you are looking for high quality merchandise, low prices and an array of styles, sizes and colors, then you will be extremely satisfied with their products. All Atlas Chairs & Tables items come with a one-year warranty.
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For more than 65 years, Bay Alarm has provided more than typical security companies – they are committed to the California communities they are a part of and the professional organizations that are dedicated to keeping those communities educated, safe and protected. Bay Alarm takes great pride in their work and the guarantee that their products, workmanship and services always exceed expectation. Employees have an average tenure of 10 years with Bay Alarm, are background checked, licensed by the state of California, and many of them receive more than 2,000 hours of training during their time with the company.
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BeeHoppy provides light mounts, custom cases ... and the next generation of tent lighting! 200 watts in 3- or 4-channel configuration using industrial RGB or RGBW LEDs in an IP-65 water resistant casing provide you with labor savings on install versus PAR lighting of comparable light output. Basic event lighting is easily determined – use one light per center pole to wash the tent top with vibrant color! Choose any color of the rainbow for your event. Light can be bright or dimmed and can pulse and change color with music. One light produces enough lumens to light up a 40’x40’ tent/area. We simply outshine and outlast our competition!
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Beal Enterprises, owned by Rick Beal, is the "offspring" of Marion Beal Sales (a wholesale distributor/warehouse in California established by Rick's mom in 1978). Previously, Marion and Rick both worked at Doly Mfg, now EZEE Mfg, a metal fabrication company that manufactures hand trucks, engine hoists, tow bars, bumper hitches and other equipment. Doly Mfg. was owned by Rick's grandfather, Edward Bruce. Beal Enterprises is proud to represent ASM, Hero, Louisville Ladder, Desa Heaters, MBW, and some local long-time suppliers, such as EDIC, EZEE Mfg, JP Nolan, and New Haven Moving Equipment. Beal Enterprises also maintains a warehouse for some of their manufacturers, including DeWalt Power Tools, Porta-Nail, MBW and Wagman Powertrowel Blades.
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Block And Roll Tent Ballast Solutions provides an innovative way to manage and move cement tent ballasts. In recent years, the demand for ballasting or weighting tents has increased. The addition of underground utilities in many areas introduces a liability for tent installers, while many facilities are concerned about staking in their parking lots. As a result, many large city properties, parks and sporting venues do not permit staking. The system allows for easy and safe handling of heavy cement blocks with or without a forklift. Block And Roll blocks can be stacked for increased weight and easy storage. The company offers equipment to handle blocks from 300 lb. to 700 lb. without the use of a fork lift.
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Ditch Witch, with four locations in California, serves the underground industry, providing equipment and services to find, place, and re-habilitate California's underground infrastructure. Ditch Witch Bay, Central California, Southern California and El Cajon provide trenchers, rock saws, directional drills, vacuum rentals, mini-excavators, chain, teeth, and sprockets, genuine Ditch Witch parts and Ditch Witch electronics, as well as micro trenching, hammerhead products and factory-trained technicians.
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Granite Industries Inc. was founded in 1997 by Steven J. Wyse, who brings 43 years of scaffold manufacturing experience to the company. Today, Granite is one of the largest U.S. scaffold manufacturers. They have warehouses around the country and currently have 150,000 square feet of manufacturing and storage on 10 acres of land in Archbold, Ohio. In addition to scaffold, Granite Industries is a leader in staging, seating, carts and fencing products. Their products are often exclusive Granite designs and lead the industry in safety and quality.
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IronPlanet® is a leading online auction marketplace for buying and selling used construction and agricultural equipment. Their equipment is inspected and guaranteed, and their convenient, reliable and easy-to-use auction approach minimizes hassles and maximizes both buyer and seller satisfaction.
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NACH is a professional representative agency for manufacturers in the construction, rental, Industrial, HVAC, welding and safety markets. They pride ourselves in representing the most innovative products in the Industry. With more than 28 years of experience in the various trades of construction, they will continue to provide customers with the best knowledge, service and support.
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Joint Venture Sales, Inc. represents a number of manufacturers and has been established since January 1999. Click on "Learn More" to see the list of companies we represent for Northern California and Northern Nevada.
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Niftylift is one of the largest manufacturers of cherry pickers, boom lifts, access platforms, lift platforms, aerial platforms and work platforms in Europe and sells throughout Europe, the USA, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia and South Africa. They specialize in compact, low-weight articulating booms that offer maximum performance with minimal environmental impact. They use advanced 3D modelling software together with rigorous testing to optimize every aspect of product design and to ensure that every Niftylift work platform delivers outstanding performance without compromising on functionality or reliability.
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Pontrelli Fountain offers the highest quality beverage fountains – they are the only fountains with all stainless steel parts and a no-splash design. Pontrelli fountains are handcrafted to provide customers with years of dependable service and are made with stainless steel tubing and parts to prevent rust or wear and tear. Pontrelli installs each of their fountains with heavy duty motors that can handle any density of beverage, including pulp. The fountains also include a no-splash design, gleaming mirror finish, illuminated column, easy cleaning and maintenance, and a choice of figurine or stainless steel post. Pontrelli also manufactures chocolate fountains, serving bowls and trays.
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Third-generation potato farmer Ron Offutt worked in the fields alongside his father throughout his school years and post-college until 1968 when the opportunity to expand the family enterprise led to the purchase of a John Deere dealership in Casselton, North Dakota. The store soon prospered and customers came to know it as a trusted industry resource and a place where they would receive individualized care and respect. RDO Equipment Co. grew to become a provider of state-of-the-art products and support for the agriculture and construction industries. Today, the company owns and operates more than 60 dealerships in nine states, selling quality brands such as John Deere, Vermeer and Topcon, and employing more than 1,900 people who focus on agriculture, construction, environmental, tree care, underground and machine control. In addition, the company currently operates in several international partnerships, including multiple locations in Mexico, Russia, Ukraine and Australia.
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Royal is a national supplier of custom forms and business supplies with distribution to all 50 states. Since their inception in 1959, their primary goal has been to provide quality printing, experienced customer service, and a professionally monitored forms management program with multiple ship points to clients. Royal produces and distributes a variety of continuous, snap-apart, register and laser forms, demand style point-of-sale invoices and many varieties of promotional products. Royal's specialties include laser cut sheet shells and stock forms for many types of software packages. They can also handle short-run cut sheet, letterhead and envelope imprinting.
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An industry leader since 1965, Sullair uses its expertise to provide superior compressed air solutions. In 1968, after establishing itself in markets that use portable compressors, Sullair introduced stationary rotary screw compressors for the industrial market. Later, responding to market need for clean and dry air in specialized applications, Sullair developed air treatment systems for their compressors. Today, with manufacturing facilities on three continents and a worldwide distribution network, Sullair serves customers in every corner of the globe. Sullair’s facilities located in the United States, China and Australia are ISO 9001 certified to assure the highest quality standards in manufacturing. Dedicated training centers at all three sites offer hands-on compressor training to its channel partners and customers in multiple languages.
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The Auction Company (TAC) is proud to be one of the largest construction equipment and vehicle auction houses in Southern California catering to local, national and international buyers and sellers. TAC offers a complete, hassle-free service, beginning with quality, effective advertising and ending with prompt payouts to our sellers. Our eight-page, full-color brochure highlights our vast inventory, and is sent to over thirty thousand of the industry’s prominent buyers prior to each auction. Our detailed brochure is also available online for easy access to information on items available for purchase in our upcoming auction. Our personable and knowledgeable staff will work to provide you with the utmost in quality service, ensuring that all of your auction needs and expectations are met and exceeded. We at the Auction Company put you, our customers, first!
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Wirant Sales Inc. was established in 1975 to service the construction industry. They furnish a wide variety of construction equipment to national and independent rental companies and to construction, industrial, and traffic and barricade equipment dealers, covering California, Nevada and Arizona. They offer sales training, product demonstrations, and after sales support to customers. Their past experience working many years for Multiquip, JLG, and Grove, and past ownership of an independent rental company provide them with the knowledge to provide the right product to meet requirements, and the ability to quickly help with after-sales technical support to maximize product performance and uptime.
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The CalChamber Alert Newsletter addressed the issue of mandated employee sick leave in their December 5 newsletter. With the signing of the legislation mandating that employers provide employees with paid sick leave starting July 1, 2015, many employers are questioning what options they have to comply with the new law and how existing or newly adopted employer policies will coordinate with this new mandate.
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The latest proposal by the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to revise Proposition 65 warning requirements should be of concern to business, the California Chamber of Commerce warns in a video report. The revised regulation would not add more meaningful information regarding how businesses present Proposition 65 warnings and would further increase the risk of litigation. CalChamber Policy Advocate Anthony Samson says in the latest CalChamber Capitol Report that there is cause for alarm, first due to the "sheer costs to the business community," which will be extraordinary. Second, the proposal will do far more to alarm consumers and less to inform them, he says. Finally, the proposal will invite "extraordinary new avenues for increased litigation under Proposition 65."
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) December Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) forecasts that Brent crude oil prices will average $68 per barrel (bbl) in 2015, with prices up to $5/bbl below the annual average early in the year. The forecast for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil spot prices averages $63/bbl in 2015. The current values of futures and options contracts show high uncertainty regarding the price outlook. For example, WTI futures contracts for March 2015 delivery traded during the five-day period ending December 4 averaged $67/bbl. Implied volatility averaged 32 percent, establishing the lower and upper limits of the 95 percent confidence interval for the market's expectations of WTI prices at the expiration of the March 2015 contract at $51/bbl and $89/bbl, respectively. Last year at this time, WTI for March 2014 delivery averaged $96/bbl and implied volatility averaged 19 percent, with only a $30/bbl spread between the corresponding lower and upper limits of the 95 percent confidence interval.
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All diesel-fueled trucks, buses, trailers and transportation refrigeration units operating in California, including those based out of state, have requirements to reduce air pollution and improve the state's overall air quality.
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The regulation requires diesel trucks and buses that operate in California to be upgraded to reduce emissions. Newer, heavier trucks and buses must meet PM filter requirements beginning January 1, 2012. Lighter and older, heavier trucks must be replaced starting January 1, 2015. By January 1, 2023, nearly all trucks and buses will need to have 2010 model year engines or equivalent. The regulation applies to nearly all privately and federally owned diesel-fueled trucks and buses and to privately and publicly owned school buses with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 14,000 pounds.

What's New:
Early Access to Economic Hardship and Agricultural Vehicle Extensions (September 12, 2014): Advisory MSC 14-13 provides early access to the economic hardship extension and compliance options for cattle trucks and other agricultural vehicles.
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The small off-road engine (SORE) category consists of off-road, spark-ignition engines below 25 horsepower, including small utility equipment, lawn mowers and weed trimmers. This category does not include compression-ignition engines, watercraft or recreational vehicles. The following includes general information regarding small off-road engines and ARB's SORE program: Small Off-Road Engines Fact Sheet and Certification Guidelines – online access to relevant certification documents for manufacturers.
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In December 2011 major amendments to the Off-Road Diesel Vehicle Regulation, which include delaying the first compliance date to no earlier than January 1, 2014, became effective. The changes to the regulation are reflected in the fact sheets, advisories and answers to frequently asked questions available on the Knowledge Center for the Off-Road Diesel Vehicle Regulation web page.
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The Truck and Bus Regulation will reduce diesel-exhaust emissions from privately owned and federal government diesel trucks and buses. Privately and publicly owned school buses have different requirements and do not need to be reported. This CARB site has the Truck Regulations Upload and Compliance Reporting System (TRUCRS).

Who Needs to Report for 2014?
• Small Fleet Option – Closed as of January 31, 2014
• PM Filter Phase-In Option – Closed as of January 31, 2014
• Agricultural Vehicle – Open January 2015 and closed thereafter
• NOx Exempt Area Operation – January 31 of any year
• Log Truck Phase-In – January 31 of any year until 2015
• Low-Use – January 31 of any year
• Low-Mileage Work Truck Option – January 31 of any year

Vehicle owners that already reported will need to update their vehicle and owner information as it changes. If you bought or sold vehicles from your fleet, installed filters or upgraded engines on any of your vehicles you must report that information within 30 days of the change. If you reported for a mileage-based extensions such as the low-mileage construction truck extension, the agricultural vehicle extension or the low-use exemption, you must report your vehicle's January 1 odometer reading by January 31 each year. Also, if you sell a vehicle that was using the extension, then you must report the ending odometer reading.
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Owners or operators of portable engines and certain other types of equipment can register their units under the Air Resources Board's (ARB) Statewide Portable Equipment Registration Program (PERP) in order to operate their equipment throughout California without having to obtain individual permits from local air districts.

Portable Diesel Engine Airborne Toxic Control Measure
On January 1, 2013, the Portable Engine Airborne Toxic Control Measure (ATCM) fleet emission standards went into effect. The ATCM required owners of portable engines to submit a Fleet Compliance Report to the Air Resources Board by March 1, 2013. The next Fleet Compliance Report will be due March 1, 2017.

Changes to Fleets
The ATCM also requires owners to ensure the average PM emission level for their fleet does not fall out of compliance due to changes in the fleet. Owners of portable diesel engine fleets who are adding or removing engines are strongly encouraged to re-calculate their fleet average. Other changes, such as modifying a registration to be low-use or emergency only-use, can also affect the fleet emissions average.

We recommend that once you have completed the calculator, save it and update it any time your portable fleet changes. Diesel-engine owners submitting applications for PERP registration for the first time must include a Fleet Compliance Report. This includes transfer of existing registrations for engines you have purchased.
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On July 26, 2007, the Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted a regulation to reduce diesel particulate matter (PM) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions from in-use (existing), off-road, heavy-duty diesel vehicles in California.
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The ARB's Heavy-Duty Vehicle Inspection Program and Periodic Smoke Inspection Program were adopted into law in 1988 to control excessive smoke emissions and tampering from heavy-duty diesel trucks and buses. The regulations Title 13 CCR, sections 2180-2189 for HDVIP and Title 13 CCR, sections 2190-2194 for PSIP, which govern these programs, were last amended in 2013.

The HDVIP program requires heavy-duty trucks and buses to be inspected for excessive smoke and tampering and for engine certification label compliance. Any heavy-duty vehicle traveling in California, including vehicles registered in other states and foreign countries, may be tested. Tests are performed by ARB inspection teams at border crossings, CHP weigh stations, fleet facilities and randomly selected roadside locations. Owners of trucks and buses found in violation are subject to minimum penalties starting at $300 per violation.
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This area of the Off-Road Mobile Sources website pertains to off-road, large spark-ignition (LSI) equipment greater than 25 horsepower, including farm, construction and industrial equipment, powered by gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and other alternate fuels. Typical applications that use LSI engines include forklifts, specialty vehicles, airport service vehicles, large turf-care equipment, portable generators and a wide array of other agricultural, construction and general industrial equipment. The U.S. EPA has sole authority to control new farm and construction equipment under 175 horsepower.
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Driving Toward a Cleaner California (DTCC) is a coalition of owner-operators, farmers, construction contractors and other business and community leaders committed to working with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to craft a sensible truck and bus replacement rule that both cleans the air and keeps California's economy moving forward. However, we have to apologize – with a high volume of news, we have been overwhelmed with keeping up with the latest industry news. Our staff will be working on getting you the latest updates. In the meantime, you may also visit our sister affiliate site for the latest on CARB, AB32 and any related news to the industry. Click on "Learn More" to access this site.
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