This Week’s Dirt

Detroit Diesel Corporation (a Daimler AG company) is a leading manufacturer of on-highway diesel engines for the commercial truck market, and is engaged in the design, manufacture, sale and service of these products. They’ve recently previewed their production-intent version of Daimler’s widely acclaimed BlueTec® technology developed to meet the specific needs and conditions of the trucking industry in North America.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued (more…)

We hope you’ve had a chance to read some of the articles posted on our blog entitled, “This Week’s Dirt”. Our aim at Tracey is to get valuable information out to our customers, keeping them informed and aware of changes in the industry. This includes trends, studies, products and brands.

If you’ll take a look at our home page, you’ll see a link called “Upcoming Trade Shows and Events”. There you’ll find details to the SnowDragon Snow Melter Demonstration in Rochester next Monday, March 2nd, and the following day in Syracuse, March 3rd.

Also, mark your calendars for March 24th, 25th & 26th, when we’ll be holding Sakai Asphalt Compaction Seminars all across New York State. The details will be coming soon.

If you’d like to learn more about any of the product lines that Tracey carries, call a Tracey Representative today. As always, we welcome your comments below.

2003 XL4100-II Gradall $179,000
Inventory #31923, Announced 2/11/09

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We recently received an email about a lady who got up very early one morning, went outside to grab the paper, and noticed that someone had sprayed red paint all around the sides of her neighbor’s brand new beige truck. She went over and woke him up and gave him the bad news. He was, of course extremely upset. 

They stood there trying to figure out what could be done about the problem. Just then another neighbor came out of his house, surveyed the situation and immediately went to get his WD-40 out and cleaned the red paint off with it. Guess what! It cleaned up that paint without harming the original paint on the truck! I’m impressed!!  (more…)

2004 ED150 Kobelco Excavator $65,000
Inventory #72784, Announced 2/17/09

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CONGRESS PRESCRIBES POWERFUL MEDICINE FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND RENEWS THE DEPRECIATION BONUS AND SECTION 179

On Feb. 17, 2009 President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law. It includes significant incentives to encourage equipment purchasing this year. Today, the Associated Equipment Distributors posted the following information as a public service to equipment purchasers.

Depreciation Bonus At A Glance

* Sec. 1201 of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) allows additional first-year depreciation of 50 percent of purchase cost by extending for one year the depreciation bonus created by the 2008 Economic Stimulus Act

* Depreciation bonus helps businesses that buy equipment this year cut their 2009 tax bill (more…)

Tracey Road Equipment held an open house in East Syracuse on Nov. 12. The open house included new product introductions, equipment demonstrations, and food and refreshments. During the open house, emphasis was placed on several products that are new to Tracey Road Equipment. (more…)

Navistar Inc. and Cummins have cancelled an agreement for 2010 and later model trucks which need to meet stricter emission standards.  (more…)