January 2010 Table of Contents

Features

• 8Building the Business: Hold on to Your Star Employees
  A combination of advancement opportunities, financial incentives and industry image building will help you retain the best and brightest workers
• 10Featured Contractor: Greener Pastures
  Iowa’s Able Home Builders thrives after it cultivates an energy efficiency specialty
• 16Cover Story: Carry the Load
  The best equipment around is no good to a contractor without the means to get it to a jobsite. That’s where these workhorses step in – flatbed, enclosed cargo and dump trailers that are ready to pull their own weight and get ’er done

Columns

• 6Office Matters: Resolve to De-Clutter
  Ring in the new year with a clear work surface and every shred of paperwork put in its place
• 20Product News: Product News
  Featuring many new industry products.
• 22Tool Talk: Tool Box Tips
  Take care of your tool box and it will protect your most important on-the-job assets
• 24Auctions: Auction Listings
  I.R.A.Y. HEAVY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AUCTION MARCH 5; WAYNE PIKE HEAVY EQUIPMENT AUCTION MARCH 20
• 28Industry News: Industry News
  Hecht Named Marketing Manager for John Deere; Kenworth T370 Participates in Hybrid Truck Users Forum; Total Construction Predicted to Drop in 2010; Lindemulder Named Head of Construction Association