The Break Fast Show #826

In today’s show: We get an exclusive low-down on the all-new high reach excavators from Volvo; Shantui unleashes a brand new dozer; we’re on the CASE at a UK quarry operation; and we’re taking a spin with Magni’s new telehandler forks.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue: Why are the thoughts of working men and women continually ignored by the powers that be?

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Operatives Required

Dartford-based M&M Demolition Co Ltd – which is active in London, Essex and its native Kent – is currently seeking CPCS 360 demolition plant operatives and CCDO operatives to help maintain the company’s strong order book.

The successful candidates will possess NPORS or CPCS qualifications and will ideally have prior demolition experience.

To find out more, please email details of your qualifications and experience to: ad@mmdemolition.co. Alternatively, you can call Tel: 0330 3411703.

The Break Fast Show #825

In today’s show: Volvo gets active; Caterpillar – As good as new; We have backhoe loader action from the machine pioneer JCB; and we’re back to backhoes with Bobcat.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue, I want to look at the issue of drugs and alcohol use and abuse on site and ask: Why do we have no tolerance for zero tolerance.

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The Break Fast Show #824

In today’s show: We’re on the road with Develon wheel loaders; watch as a theatre enjoys its final curtain call; we have a New Holland dozer in action; and a French demolition time-lapse.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue, I am hoping to send you into the weekend feeling proud. I will be comparing the temporary nature of politics, industry issues and petty on site arguments with the permanence of that which is created by the demolition and construction industry.

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The Break Fast Show #823

In today’s show: We’re climbing aboard the Cat 6015 mining excavator; Develon predicts the future of construction; Volvo remains focused on carbon reduction; and there’s another new Wacker Neuson wheel loader to admire.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue. Following yesterday’s Autumn Budget, we won’t be discussing what it will cost us as individuals and as an industry, but why.

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The Break Fast Show #822

In today’s wheel loader centric show: We get behind the wheel of Liebherr’s latest loader; we’re walking round a big Cat loader; John Deere goes X-Tier; and Dynaset dampens the dust during the demolition of a Finnish hospital.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue, we will be discussing, yet again, the impending loss of Grandfather Rights for CSCS card holders and what that could mean for individual workers and for the industry as a whole.

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The Break Fast Show #821

In today’s show: We have a rare opportunity to compare and contrast two new competing machines from Bobcat and Wacker Neuson; we’re going large – very large – with the Komatsu PC7000 mining excavator; and we have a battery drill like you have never seen before.

PLUS in Mark’s Morning Monologue, we will be considering how the market dominance of one or two major brands and companies can stifle competition and innovation.

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The Break Fast Show #820

In today’s show: Volvo’s latest short radius excavator; how Liebherr keeps mining fleets moving; Caterpillar – Rebuilding monster mining trucks; and we’re headed back to Las Vegas for a final look at the Komatsu stand.

PLUS in today’s episode of Mark’s Morning Monologue, we ask: Have we made it too difficult to start a new demolition business from the ground up?

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The Break Fast Show #819

In today’s show: Is this new Heracles loader hot or not? JCB’s latest rotary telehandler; dramatic Dutch demolition; fleet management Down Under.

PLUS in today’s episode of Mark’s Morning Monologue, we ask: Why are there so many questions in the UK demolition industry that go unasked and unanswered?

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The Break Fast Show #818

In today’s show: JCB surpasses a major engine milestone; John Deere celebrates a dozer day to remember; OilQuick and Normet forge an alliance; and Komatsu is with you from pit to port.

PLUS in today’s episode of Mark’s Morning Monologue, we uncover the self-perpetuating lie of demolition and construction safety.

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