Ubiquitous on mini-excavators, dozer blades for backfilling and grading have crept up to the medium 20,000- to 40,000-pound excavator size class. As in other machine categories, operators have been ...

Needing fewer machines. “For example, the need for a dozer to clean up after an excavator or a grader to finish after a dozer can be eliminated with machine control,” Clark said.

To tackle a small piece of this, BigRentz—a California-based company that since 2012 has matched contractors with rental ...