It's Hard To Tell The Players Nowadays...
I didn't mean to suggest Terex was gone, it's just sort of fragmented, it's hard to say who owns what part nowadays. I think the crane division is it's own deal, the division that made scrapers is part of Ingersoll-Rand or whoever owns them....do they still make Terex loaders? I know there are Terex off road forklifts, and artic trucks.
Euclid is it's own company and still makes off road trucks, aren't they teamed with Hitachi?
As far as dirt is concerned, you don't see too many Terex/Euclid scrapers around Nebraska, most fleets are Cats. I always wondered if the suspended axle Loadrunners rode anywhere near as good as a cushion hitch Cat, which seems to be the main advantage a Cat has, that, and product support, and the amount of money Cat can hurl at developement.
There is a company in the Kansas City area, Damon Purcell, they prefer
S24's to Cat 631's, and have good luck with them. They have re-engined theirs for more power, (with what, I don't know) and they sure do look bigger than a 631. Very impressive in appearance.
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