Entries Tagged Utility Locating

Locators are an essential part of plumbing repair work because they enhance safety and save time by minimizing delays. Locators quickly and...

In each issue, Cleaner magazine captures the work that contractors do through both words and pictures. When photographers accompany profiled contractors on job sites, more...

As a member of the Common Ground Alliance, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers is supporting National Safe Digging Month in April and asking its 1,000-plus members...

The Common Ground Alliance (CGA), a national nonprofit trade association dedicated to protecting underground utility lines and the people who dig near...

Many people walk over them everyday without noticing. But the colorful paint marking buried utilities underneath sidewalks and roads is essential to...

Ground Penetrating Radar Systems started like most construction service companies: relatively small, based out of a single region, providing services just to...

How well do you know the APWA Uniform Color Code? Are you up to date on industry standard abbreviations? Excavation is dangerous work...

Whether they’re replacing a sewer main or planting a tree, excavators rely on a code of marks and indicators to avoid underground...

With some machines, a consistent regimen of preventive maintenance is critical. Oil needs to be changed out and components need to be...

Soil type plays a big role in contractors’ ability to accurately locate underground utilities in advance of an excavation job. For example, ground-penetrating...

Vacuum Truck Rentals welcomes CalhounVacuum Truck Rentals announced Donald Calhoun as the newest member of its sales team. He will serve the...

In today’s sophisticated, high-tech world, consumers increasingly demand tangible evidence to back work estimates. Just as patients expect to see the X-ray...

Utility lines for electricity, phone, cable TV and many others are increasingly being buried underground, making repairs to water pipelines more and...

The vScan M utility avoidance tool from Vivax-Metrotech helps contractors prevent damage to buried utilities. It allows the excavating operator to check...