Heavy equipment refers to heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction tasks, most frequently ones involving earthwork operations.
They are also known as heavy machines, heavy trucks, construction equipment, engineering equipment, heavy vehicles, or heavy hydraulics.
They usually comprise five equipment systems: implement, traction, structure, power train, control and information.
Heavy equipment functions through the mechanical advantage of a simple machine, the ratio between input force applied and force exerted is multiplied.
Some equipment uses hydraulic drives as a primary source of motion...
Construction Equipment is published monthly. Each issue typically includes Product Evaluations and Buying File as new products are introduced into the market. In addition, the magazine coveres fleet-management topics, including the monthly column Equipment Executive.
Every December, Construction Equipment ranks new products introduced that year in a feature called "Top 100 New Products.
As of June 2013, total BPA circulation was