Earth Max Construction, a contracting company sitting atop Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada, is gaining ground in a niche earthmoving market working for rural municipalities’ public works departments.

In a small, family-owned business, it stands to reason that a family member would wear a lot of hats. Matt Peters, son of the founders of Solid Earth Civil Constructors in Pueblo, Colorado, takes the ...

Elevating scrapers such as this Cat 623G have the advantage of being able to load themselves without the help of a pusher. To the casual observer, the scraper market may seem to be shrinking. But a ...