As a manufacturer and a rental house, Pro-Tec Equipment has the luxury of sometimes instantly adding new equipment to our rental fleet.  We are able to solve problems quickly that a normal shoring rental operation may not.  Of course with this blessing comes a curse.  There will come a time when we don’t have most of our eighteen 28’ or longer trench shields rented.  When that happens, there will be a hungry, smelly, 800 lb gorilla in the controller’s office wondering how such a thing happened.

In Michigan, we have faced the struggles that the rest of the nation is now experiencing for the better part of this decade.   Read the rest of this entry »