Sunday diversion: Cat worker goes from fat man to Iron Man
Bloomington Pantagraph profiles one John Brown, a Caterpillar employee who went on a fitness kick a couple years back and hasn’t stopped since. He lost 140 pounds in just over two years after winning a...
View ArticleCat exec goes on shooting spree
OK, it was just some birds, on his own land, but it’s a slow news day and right now the best I’ve got is this: Group President Doug Oberhelman going quail hunting with the outdoors writer from the...
View ArticleCaterpillar Operator Challenge: “Toughest Competition on Earth”
This morning I happened upon the blog of Caterpillar Operator Challenge Finals 2008, a scraping-digging-dumping olympiad held in early November at Cat’s proving grounds in Malaga, Spain. The winner:...
View ArticleDon Fites named to Hall of Fame
Last time I lived in Peoria, Don Fites was the man every UAW member loved to hate. Now he’s been voted to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers Hall of Fame. “We are pleased to continue the...
View ArticleFormer rodeo queen now drives a Caterpillar D8 for a living
This piece in the Modesto Bee trots out a woman-in-a-mans-world cliche about every fourth sentence, but I’m posting because my wife says her secret dream is to enroll in Caterpillar Operator School....
View ArticleRemembering Slag
Phil Luciano of the Peoria Journal Star profiles the longest-working employee in Caterpillar history, Glen “Slag” Hilligoss, who died on New Year’s Eve after over 63 years with the company. Slag was a...
View ArticleEx-Caterpillar CEO Lee Morgan dead at 89
Lee Morgan saw Caterpillar through some of its darkest hours in the early 1980s. Everybody who has job there today has him to thank for keeping the doors open as the company lost billions because the...
View ArticleCaterpillar CEO to join Obama’s economic advisory board
President Obama’s assembling his economic dream team: The group also will include Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric, and Jim Owens, the chairman of Caterpillar Inc., which announced last...
View ArticleCaterpillar insiders buying up shares
A site called Gurufocus notes several stock share purchases by Caterpillar brass: Director Daniel M Dickinson bought 3,037 shares of CAT stock last Friday … Director Peter A Magowan bought 15,000...
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