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McCann Provides Equipment and Service
for Indiana Toll Road Project

• 20+ Case machines on the job
• GlobalTracs® on all equipment for timely maintenance
• McCann provides automatic maintenance during off hours
• Missing machine recovered in Michigan through
GlobalTracs® system

Tight Budget for Arduous Project
Since the fall of 2006, Indiana Toll-Roads Contractors LLC, a joint venture, between Ferrovial Agroman Indiana LLC and Rieth-Riley Construction Co., has been widening the Indiana Toll Road from two lanes to three between mileposts 10.6 and 20.27. The project includes removing upper decks and rebuilding columns and supports.

“By the fall of 2006, the project started and has been in full gear ever since,” Jim Wiseman of Indiana Toll-Roads Contractors LLC said. “We’ve pretty much worked even through the winters because of our tight timeframe. The project requires a crew of 125 to 200 workers on any given day. It is slated to be complete in December 2010.

“We’re finding surprises on a daily basis sometimes. There’s everything from fiber optic lines to hidden sewers that have been there for a hundred years. When you’re right next to one of the biggest steel mills in the world, you can imagine what’s underground.

“We’re under a strict time limitation, so any chance that we can work, even in inclement weather, we’re out there working. In the last winter, we really had a major effort through the winter and through rainstorms.”

Automatic Machine Maintenance On Time, After Hours
Because of the size of the project, Wiseman commented that Indiana Toll-Road Contractors has been using Case equipment, rented from McCann Industries, for the project.

“It’s worked out absolutely wonderfully,” Wiseman said. “We’ve had a wide variety of Case equipment out there, and it has performed beautifully.”

Currently, there are 13 machines on the job: six Case excavators—two CX210s, a CX225, two CX330s and a CX290; two 721E Case wheel loaders; two SV208 vibratory compactors; an SV212 vibratory compactor; two 850K dozers; and a 580 Super M. Wiseman added that on average there are 15 to 25 machines working at the job site every day.

The Qualcomm GlobalTracs® system is installed on all of the equipment, and the system doesn’t just track stolen equipment. It also tracks things like when to change the oil. McCann monitors the service needs of the equipment wirelessly through the Qualcomm system.

“They know when it’s time for servicing, whether it’s a 100 hour service, a 500 hour service, or a 1,000 hour service, whether it needs an oil change or it’s time for filters or it’s time for transmission fluids,” Wiseman said. “At that point, McCann calls us, and we give them approval to go forward.”

Like clockwork, McCann does the maintenance and then sends an invoice. “And it’s done. It’s one stop shopping. It’s been really effective and very easy to track that way,” Wiseman noted. “There’s been minimal downtime. McCann has been just absolutely phenomenal as far as being able to service our needs, being there on a timely basis.”

Mike Maloney at McCann Industries added, “Our service manager, Tom Crawford, coordinates with the Indiana Toll-Road Contractors field personnel. They determine when the most opportune time is to service the equipment to keep the disruption to a minimum, so we go out evenings or on a Saturday or when we know the machine is down to get the maintenance done. Most of the maintenance is done right on-site.”

Case Machine Located in Michigan
The Qualcom Tracs system came in handy almost instantly and saved Indiana Toll-Road Contractors a valuable piece of iron. In November 2008 Maloney called Wiseman to ask if one of the machines was where it was supposed to be. It had moved off the Indiana job site to the corner of I-94 and a side street in South Haven, Michigan.

“These machines are locked into an area based on their Qualcom GlobalTracs GPS signals,” Wiseman explained. “You can set boundaries and say, ‘If this machine goes past Broadway on the west and Tennessee Avenue on the east, send an alert,’ and McCann gets alerted through the system that the machine is on the move.”

A supervisor was dispatched to check on the machine, but it was nowhere to be found. The South Haven police were notified and within a couple of minutes, the machine was located in the parking lot of the local Ramada Inn.

“That’s a testament to the GlobalTracs system,” Wiseman said.

(This article was excerpted from an article titled, "Joint Venture Tackles Indiana Toll Road Project," by Maura Bohart and Peter Suanlarm, which appeared in Construction Equipment Guide's November 14, 2009, Midwest Edition.)

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