Lucy Barnard

2 weeks ago | internationalrentalnews.com | Lucy Barnard

It’s the International Rental News weekly news quiz - how much attention have you been paying to events in the world of equipment rental over the past seven days? 1) According to estimates by specialist consultancy Off-Highway Research, how much would Donald Trump’s trade tariffs have added to the annual cost of construction equipment imported to the US if charged at the rates announced on 2 April?

2 weeks ago | internationalrentalnews.com | Lucy Barnard

Like manufacturers all over the world, French mobile elevated work platform specialist Haulotte is trying to work out how to react to new US trade tariffs. President Donald Trump imposed a raft of new import taxes on all goods entering the US last week aimed at boosting US manufacturing and which he promised would “make America wealthy again.”The tariffs add an extra 10% on all imports to the US and a higher rate of 20% on imports from the European Union.

2 weeks ago | internationalrentalnews.com | Lucy Barnard

The Hertfordshire-based national plant hire firm has been convicted of three separate offences related to transporting a tracked excavator and associated plant equipment  without submitting the correct movement notification. According to West Midlands Police, officers stopped a heavy goods vehicle transporting the excavator in March 2024 during a Multi Agency Road Safety Operation (MARSO) at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC).

2 months ago | constructionbriefing.com | Lucy Barnard

New US transport Secretary Sean Duffy says the Department of Transport must give funding priority to communities with high birth rates

Apr 1, 2024 | scaffoldmag.com | Lucy Barnard

The world looked on in horror last week as Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after one of its supports was struck by a Singapore-flagged Dali cargo ship. At the time of writing, the search for six missing construction workers thought to have been repairing potholes on the bridge has been called off. Two others were pulled from the water during a search and rescue operation.