Decisions, decisions

摘要

Our 2013 Salary Survey (PW, April 2013) found that you're still feeling the recession's pinch. When money's tight and work must get done, it can be hard to know what to do with an aging piece of equipment. Should you buy new or used? Or rent? Every winter for more than a decade, a New York highway department rented a Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas Inc. wheel loader to help plow and remove an average of 33 inches of snow. Two years ago, as one of his three wheel loaders approached 15 years of service, superintendent Marc Pfeifer decided to replace it with the same model he had been renting.