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Feature Article #1

Adirondack Excavator & Reliability

Trades in Reliability and Dependability
Whether it’s a small job or a big one, it makes no never-mind to Chris Crandall. As he plies his trade in the neighborhoods along the shores of upstate New York’s Lake George, he can take justifiable pride in a hard-earned reputation for the quality of his work – built on [...]

MTS Online | August 18th, 2009 | Continued

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Better Pricing, Higher Quality & More Choices

It was just about a year ago that MT Solutions wrote about Monroe Tractor (MT) being pleased with the way its plan to provide added service to its customers was working. As a matter of fact Chris Felosky, MT’s product support manager, was quoted as saying “Everybody loves it when a plan comes together.”
At the [...]

MTS Online | February 3rd, 2009 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Monroe Tractor acquires S. C. Hansen
If five pounds of a good thing is really valuable, what’s the value of 10 pounds?
Put another way, if you’ve come to appreciate doing business with a company that has used every one of its 57 years to refine and enhance the quality of its products and service, how much [...]

MTS Online | September 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #4

LeeBoy Reputation Seals the Deal

Don’t ever under estimate the power of a reputation. Whether that’s the reputation of a product, a business or an inpidual it can make a huge difference.
It did to Frank Affronti, owner of 104 Contractors, Inc. a site contractor from Ontario, NY. Affronti is no newcomer to the industry, having started his business more than [...]

MTS Online | May 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

What’s a Rodeo All About?

Bright summer sun, dust kicking up as the competition heated up, hot dogs and soft drinks, loud rockin’ music, and lotsa kids.
It was the first time since 2001 that the rodeo was in town but by the time the sun was high, no one seemed to be thinking about how long it had been. It [...]

MTS Online | January 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #6

Call it the Swiss Army Knife of backhoes.

Who would have thought?
While still a teenager attending college at the University of Maine, Howard Fraser got bitten by the bug…the backhoe bug that is. “I can still remember how much I enjoyed that early opportunity to climb up on a backhoe and go to work,” he says today from his office at Carrier Corp., [...]

MTS Online | September 1st, 2007 | Continued

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Feature Article #7

Putting the Money Where Our Mouth Is

“Put your money where your mouth is, buddy.” Who hasn’t heard that retort, probably more than we’d like. It’s one of those things that is easy to say, but not necessarily as easy to accomplish.
For example, how often have we heard businesses proclaim their dedication to doing what’s good for their customers? Alternatively, who hasn’t [...]

MTS Online | May 1st, 2007 | Continued

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Hard Hat Expo – a Team Effort

Once again the Hard Hat Expo, staged at the New York State Fairgrounds March 11 and 12, attracted some 150 exhibitors and literally thousands of contractors, municipalities and corporations from across the state of New York. And, once again Monroe Tractor garnered its share of attention with a jam-packed exhibit of popular construction equipment.
Despite blaring [...]

18Aug2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Vibroscreen Proves Versatile for Kodiak Excavating

The management team at Monroe Tractor understands that in the heavy equipment business, customer service is the product for sale. While the company represents numerous equipment manufacturers, whose excavators, skid steers, backhoes, pavers and other machines are on display at each Monroe location, customers could easily purchase similar machines from other area equipment dealers. Monroe [...]

18Aug2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Monroe Tractor Adds Rosco Broom

Monroe Tractor has been a LeeBoy dealer since the mid-60s. This year it has added the Rosco brand of products to its line of equipment designed for service in the paving industry. Rosco is a LeeBoy company, having been purchased by LeeBoy in 2001.
Tony Wight, the LeeBoy/Rosco sales rep who works with Monroe Tractor, worked [...]

18Aug2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Winners, Winners and more Winners

Sometimes you just have to throw a party and invite all your friends.
At least it seems logical that this might have been the attitude as the staff of the Albany branch of Monroe Tractor prepared for Friday, May 15.
It was a day designed as celebration and demonstration. In the nine months since being acquired by [...]

18Aug2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Service Above Self

Monroe Tractor recently garnered recognition from two different directions – first from the local community of Henrietta, and then by a key vendor – Doosan.
It all began with the Rush-Henrietta Rotary Club, building on the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self.”
Rush-Henrietta Rotary President Walter V. Springer, Jr. announced that the club was seeking nominations by [...]

18Aug2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Largest Equipment Operator Chooses LeeBoy

Gary Pooler, the founder and president of Pooler Enterprises, Inc., is recognized by his smile and his low-key, unpretentious manner. He started out as a diesel mechanic repairing and maintaining heavy construction equipment. That was 1986. When a couple customers were unable to pay for his services he started renting scrapers on an hourly basis.
Today, [...]

3Feb2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Be Prepared!

Whether its  off-season maintenance or preventive maintenance, it’s all part of MT’s efforts to . . .
On February 11, 2009 the Boy Scouts of America will begin the final year of its first century. It was founded on February 10, 1910 with the now famous motto – “Be Prepared.” Millions of young men and women [...]

3Feb2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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In ’08-’09 It’s About Getting the Job Done

1995 fire is history
On July 13, 1995 the nearly century old Town of Tonawanda highway department building began to burn. Before it was over, the old, factory-style building dating back to the very early twentieth century (between 1910 ad 1920) was totally destroyed and along with it most of the equipment that had helped the [...]

3Feb2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued