The Contractor's Best Friend
Brought to you by ForConstructionPros.com and Caterpillar, TCBF: The Contractor’s Best Friend Podcast, is the ultimate “motivational and informational” podcast, perfect for your commute. Tailored specifically for contractors on-the-go, you’ll learn essential tips and tricks needed to develop your business and increase your ROI.Caterpillar experts are here to answer your questions: https://www.cat.com/en_US/by-industry/construction/tipstechandtools.html
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S5E18: Using Data to Make Decisions
How Data Can Save Time, Money in Construction
15 min
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S5E17: Transition of a Foreman
How to Become a Construction Foreman
14 min
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S5E16: Contractors’ Top Industry FAQs Part 2
Matching Equipment to the Construction Job
12 min
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S5E15: Contractors’ Top Industry FAQs Part 1
Battling Safety Fatigue in Construction
13 min
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S5E14: Quick Wins for Operators
How can you take your operators to the next level?
14 min
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S5E13: Uptime - A Contractor’s Perspective on P...
Chris Seger of Pavecon offers a user's perspective on leveraging product support and service from an equipment provider.
13 min
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S5E12: Quick Wins for Contractors
What are the advantages to partnering with a dealer versus doing it yourself?
14 min
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S5E11: Best Investments in Technology
Making the right investments in construction technology.
11 min
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S5E10: Electric Machines – the Next Generation
Electric construction equipment offers many value drivers for construction contractors.
14 min
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S5E9: Build a Better Virtual Training Program
What can construction contractors do to keep employees engaged with virtual training?
15 min
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S5E8: Machine Choices – Other Versatile Machines
The variety of equipment models available today creates versatile options to meet the needs of big or small projects.
15 min
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S5E7: Keys to More Effective Virtual Meetings
How to optimize virtual meetings to make them most effective.
14 min
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S5E6: Spotting Talent in Today’s Workforce
15 min
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S5E5: Machine Choices – Matching Machines to Pr...
Best practices on how to choose the right equipment to match the job.
13 min
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S5E4: The Impact of Electric Machines – Part 2
Part two of the discussion focuses on the maintenance aspect of electric construction equipment.
12 min
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S5E3: The Impact of Electric Machines – Part 1
Caterpillar's electric drive construction equipment is saving fuel and increasing component longevity.
10 min
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S5E2: Customer Perspective - What’s the Value/...
How customer value agreements can improve equipment uptime.
13 min
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S5E1: How Has COVID-19 Impacted Contractors?
Caterpillar and contractors learned to adapt to the new normal.
12 min
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S4E13: Taking a Scheduled Maintenance Break
A proactive approach to scheduled maintenance drives better uptime for construction equipment.
17 min
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S4E12: Taking Care of Your Construction Equipme...
If you don't measure your equipment undercarriage regularly you're throwing money out the window
13 min
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S4E11: Healthy Habits That Keep Everyone Working
Construction sites are getting safer, but contractors need to keep personal health and safety at the forefront as well on the jobsites and in their companies.
15 min
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S4E10: How Construction Contractors Can Find an...
Traditional recruiting methods don't work as well today, so contractors need to start thinking outside the box.
17 min
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S4E9: Take Time for Training
Despite a solid effort across the industry, construction contractors should be investing more time and money in training.
15 min
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S4E8: Managing Machines and Growing Margins
Contractors should be reviewing telematics data at least daily and using that data to drive decisions that improve profits and decrease costs.
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S4E7: Is Your Crew Really Ready for an Emergency?
Assess the potential emergencies your crew could face and create proactive plans so all are prepared
17 min