Keeping excavator operating costs down depends not only on managers doing the blocking and tackling such as routine maintenance, but also on taking advantage of ever-evolving technologies such as ...

Caterpillar has introduced three new Next Gen excavators - models 315 GC, 317 and 317 GC - designed to offer higher productivity and lower operating costs to the 15- and 17-ton class of machines.

Excavators and articulated dump trucks are an efficient earthmoving system when everything it set up properly. "You want to size the truck to the excavator or the excavator to the truck," notes ...