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Original Equipment

October 2006

Joystick control for Cat M-Seriesmotor graders

The main story behind Caterpillar's new seven-model lineup of M-Series motor graders is not that they meet U.S. EPA Tier 3 and EU Stage IIIa emissions regulations—which they do—but rather that they feature some "revolutionary" concepts in motor-grader design. Most notable is a pair of joysticks that replace as many as 15 levers and a steering wheel to control machine functions.
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