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Feature Article #1

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 [...]

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MTS Online | February 3rd, 2009 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

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 [...]

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MTS Online | September 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

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 [...]

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MTS Online | May 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #4

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 [...]

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MTS Online | January 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

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., [...]

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MTS Online | September 1st, 2007 | Continued

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Feature Article #6

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 [...]

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MTS Online | May 1st, 2007 | 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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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3Feb2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Working “Under” the Railroad

Tight spaces and an urgent deadline demanded dependability
Riverside Park, on the northern banks of the Mohawk River in Amsterdam, NY is a great place to relax, maybe get a quick bite to eat, or replenish the water on board your boat as you pass by – until a water main breaks that is. Without water [...]

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1Sep2008 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Five Tons of Steel

Not Just Your Average Scissors
Al Plumb calls things like he sees them. He takes care of his customers and the 97 employees who swarm the ALPCO Recycling Center on Macedon Center Rd. in the Town of Macedon, east of Rochester, simply because “that’s the way you’re supposed to do it.”
It’s been that way since the [...]

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1Sep2008 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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MT Mined Conexpo For Information Its Customers Can Use

Conexpo 2008, (officially known as CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2008) was the largest trade show in 2008 of any industry in North America. It was held March 11 thru March 15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center where a record 144,600 industry professionals from around the world attended.
Monroe Tractor’s own, Janet Felosky, President; Chris Felosky, Product Support Manager; [...]

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1May2008 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Research leads to Takeuchi

It’s a family affair. That’s the only way you can describe what you find at Satimore Landscape and Design just south of the city of Fulton, NY.
Well, you might add a few other descriptive words…young - they’ve only been in business since August of last year, thorough - they know how to do their homework [...]

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1May2008 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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More of the same - It’s a Good Thing

If Frank Affronti from 104 Contractors, Inc. was acting based on reputation (see article page 4) Steve and Mark Lindstrom (father and son), Lake Shore Paving in Jamestown, NY were basing their buying decisions on experience as they added three new Hamm rollers to their paving fleet.
Lake Shore Paving is a full service site contractor [...]

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1May2008 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued