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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will soon be providing extra trucks at designated weighbridge areas so that overloaded trucks to transfer extra weight in bid to protect major thoroughfares and bridges.
Advances in hydrostatic (fluid drive) technology for forklift trucks have made them safer, longer-lasting, more reliable less costly to maintain and more environmentally friendly.
So what are the pitfalls when buying or renting a second hand lift truck? Barloworld Handling, one of the UK's largest and most respected suppliers of quality used lift trucks, provides some top tips to help you drive safely through the 'used truck' minefield.
A supply shortage for classes of offshore rigs capable of drilling in up to 10,000 feet of water means that the daily rate that operators pay to rent a high-end, deep-water drilling rig is now $500,000 to $550,000.
Petrojack ASA (OSL:JACK) will release the first quarter earnings for 2008 on Wednesday, May 21. The financial results will be made available on the company’s website at petrojack.no/investor.htm.
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