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Training & Experience Open Doors

MT broadens service Don’t bother trying to count the number of times that conversations about service in today’s marketplace end with someone saying, “There’s no customer service any more.” Unfortunately, there are too many examples of situations where this statement rings true. That’s why the people at Monroe Tractor have redoubled their efforts to provide [...]

MTS Online | June 22nd, 2010 | Continued

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Getting the Job Done Right

The noonday sun was bright against a deep blue sky and the rain forecast the day before was nowhere in sight. While some people decried a need for rain, Dave Allen was thankful for a glorious spring day as another of his trucks backed into the site of The Gardens, a senior living complex in [...]

MTS Online | December 1st, 2009 | Continued

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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 [...]

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 [...]

MTS Online | February 3rd, 2009 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

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, [...]

MTS Online | September 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #6

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 [...]

MTS Online | May 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #7

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. [...]

MTS Online | January 1st, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #8

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 [...]

MTS Online | September 1st, 2007 | Continued

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Doosan GPS . . . A Total Fleet Management System

John Dancy, Monroe Tractor’s branch sales manager for Rochester and Syracuse, has reported an up-tick in customer interest in Doosan’s GPS capabilities. According to Dancy, Doosan’s GPS is a Total Fleet Management System that will lower his customers’ operating costs. Says Dancy, the Doosan’s GPS provides three-tier protection. “The customer becomes his own first line [...]

22Jun2010 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Kleemann . . .World Leader Joins MT

“We’ve aligned ourselves with the best in the industry.” That’s how Monroe Tractor’s Eastern Regional General Manager, Chuck Miller, describes the recent addition of Kleemann mobile crushers and mobile screens to its product line. Kleemann has been a major player worldwide for more than 150 years, according to Miller. It’s only been since 2006, however, [...]

22Jun2010 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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No Time to Waste

MT is County Waste Solution As sure as the sun comes up in the morning, when Tim Nash arrives at work each day, trucks will be lined up to empty the trash, construction debris, and other solid wastes and recyclables collected in the region around Rensselaer County, east of Albany, NY.  As site manager for [...]

22Jun2010 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Lake Shore to Expand Services

Monroe Tractor Paves the Way It’s always good to discover a business relationship that works for everyone involved. Steve Lindstrom at the Jamestown, NY Lake Shore Paving recognizes just such a relationship with Monroe Tractor. Lindstrom started Lake Shore Paving in 1998, in New York’s westernmost corner near the Pennsylvania border. Like most companies, Lindstrom [...]

22Jun2010 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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The Short & Long Of It Is . . .

Short equipment rentals have created a long relationship with Power & Construction Group, Inc. Most good relationships are built on trust . . . which might just be another way, in a business environment, of saying service. The Power and Construction Group, Incorporated (P&CG) has long been a customer of Monroe Tractor, renting and purchasing [...]

22Jun2010 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Who wouldn’t want . . . A Cameleon On The Team

Okay, a salesman, especially one who also wears a general manager’s hat like Chuck Miller does as the Monroe Tractor Eastern GM, is supposed to be enthusiastic about his company’s products. Double that – for a new product line. Still, the salesman in him wouldn’t be enough to account for Miller’s attitude when it comes [...]

22Jun2010 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Look for That Quality ‘Attitude’

Nobody needs to stretch their imagination to comprehend the impressive, while relatively brief history of Rochester’s DDS Companies. Still, if you should need help wrapping your head around it, consider that the company was founded only eight years ago, then take a quick look at the equipment fleet they identify on their website,  www.ddscompanies.com/01_pages/DDSC_equipment.htm. The [...]

1Dec2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Helping Construction Businesses Save Time and Money

Over the years Monroe Tractor realized that the price it was paying for parts was increasing and becoming overpriced.  “Obviously as these prices continued to increase it began to affect our customers in the wallet,” noted Chris Felosky, Monroe Tractor’s product support manager. It was time to identify an alternative solution. Through some due diligence [...]

1Dec2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued
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Monroe/Doosan Help Sicar Tackle Large Projects

Twenty years ago, Jim Caradori could have been thinking about retiring. He’d already done more in the construction industry than many of his contemporaries, since his discharge from the Marine Corps in 1956. Yet, at age 75, Jim is still tackling large construction projects. As a former Marine, he went right to work with his [...]

1Dec2009 | MTS Online | 0 comments | Continued