Like many of my North American media counterparts, as well as manufacturing execs, dealer reps, contractors and others planning to attend the bauma show in Munich last month, I found myself grounded by, of all things, a volcano in Iceland. All that week, I kept thinking about the events I was missing, and lamenting the fact that an innocuous-looking cloud hovering thousands of feet above Europe was keeping me from exploring the "miles of aisles" of construction equipment innovations.
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