Consultation with property owners or communities would end up being a weak defense against the big bulldozers run by the highway crowd.
G.E. competes with Siemens of Germany to sell medical imaging devices, and the market for Caterpillar's big bulldozers is crowded with European and Asian manufacturers, all with sharp elbows.
Caterpillar is also facing mounting competition from a Chinese maker of big bulldozers, Shantui, and an upstart German engineering group, Liebherr, that makes construction cranes but is now competing with Caterpillar for pipe-laying equipment for the petroleum industry.
He also advised me to be in a "nice safe setting" and not to "operate big bulldozers" when I finally did try pot for the first time.
"It's perfect," he says, "because the land is so flat we just put the biggest bulldozer we have through, cut a line five metres wide and 100km long.
No matter how firm one's ground, might it not be dislodged in the face of a yet bigger bulldozer?
The person who wins it each quarter gets a big plastic bulldozer that makes noises.
On the other side a big yellow bulldozer sat idling, and a group of mud-stained contractors exchanged uneasy glances.
How big a bulldozer is she to use?
