Good morning. My name is Lorie and I'll be your conference operator. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Terex Corporation Fourth Quarter 2007 Earnings Release Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) Thank you. I will now turn the call over to Ron DeFeo. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Lorie. Good morning ladies and gentlemen and thank you for your interest in Terex today. On the call and available for your questions, is Steve Filipov and Tim Ford, as well as Rick Nichols and Bob Isaman, our group Presidents. Also, in the room this morning is Tom Riordan, our President and Chief Operating Officer and Phil Widman, our CFO. To accommodate our audiences in earlier time zones or anyone unable to listen, there will be a replay of this teleconference. The replay will be available shortly after the conclusion of the call and can be accessed until Thursday, 28th of February at 5 pm Eastern Daylight Time. To access the replay please call 800-642-1687 and international participants can call 706-645-9291 and enter conference ID 342-720-53. Now that the administration is done, I'd like to make a few opening comments. Phil will follow me to discuss the fourth quarter and the full year; Tom Riordan will provide some further operating and market commentary; and I'll come back and give you a summary of the outlook and open it up to your questions. We would ask that any question should be followed with one follow-up question if possible, so that we're fair to everyone on the call. Overall, we are pleased with Terex's operating and financial performance in 2007. This was a pretty important year for us. We faced a number of challenges and we feel we handled them reasonably well, with an ability to continue to build capability for the future. Meaningful shifts took place in our business. These shifts support the overall growth and margin improvement strategies that are being deployed. For the full year, non-U.S. business represented 70% of our total net sales. The sales downdraft from U.S. housing began in mid-2006, so we had a…

Thanks Ron, and good morning. Before I begin, let me remind you that we will discuss expectations of future events and performance of the Company on today's call, and that such expectations are subject to uncertainties related to macro-economic factors, interest rates, governmental actions and other factors. A fuller description of these factors that effect future expectations is included in the press release and our other public filings, which I encourage you to read. We closed out 2007 with a flurry of activity. Net sales reached a record for a quarterly period at $2.6 billion, up 19% excluding the translation impact of foreign currency fluctuations, while our income from operations of $240 million was the second largest quarterly amount in our history. Income from continuing operations increased to $1.67 per share from $0.97 in the prior year period. We generated $396 million in cash from operations as profitability and a turnaround in our working capital performance came through. Return on invested capital reached a record level of 43.3%.The net sales increase in the fourth quarter was driven mainly by the significant level of mining product deliveries, largely mining trucks, which represented 43% of the equipment deliveries for that group in the fourth quarter 2007, compared to 16% in the prior year period. Large crawler and mobile telescopic crane deliveries also accelerated in the current quarter, as a result of throughput improvements. We also had strong volume performance in the Aerial Work Platform and Construction segments. Income from operations increased to $240 million, an operating margin of 9.3%, compared to a $169 million with an operating margin of 8.3% in the prior year. Leverage from the volume growth in our more profitable segments and the positive impact of pricing adjustments more than offset the unfavorable effect from the mix impact from…

Thanks, Phil and good morning everyone. I will cover our current use of end markets, discuss how each of our businesses are performing and then get into some of our key operating initiatives. The end markets for Terex continue to be reasonable strong on average as the trend to improve global infrastructure drives the basic demand for our products. However, there are clear differences between various geographies, and we believe we're generally well-positioned for the current environment. The Aerial Work Platform market continues to be somewhat bifurcated, with North America flat to moderately down and international still relatively strong. The European market which includes Eastern Europe and the Middle East remains quite strong, although expectations for 2008 are for almost a strong growth, compared to the last two years. Asia-Pacific and Latin America are robust as well, and we expect these trends to continue. Globally the construction equipment market for traditional products is quite varied. North America continues to be depressed but stable. Europe overall remains strong, with Eastern European countries continuing their very strong growth and Western Europe showing moderate growth, Middle East, Africa and Asia are very strong markets. The end markets driving Material Processing and Mining products also remain globally strong and still positive in the U.S. These markets are non-residential infrastructure and commodity-based mining categories. With the continuing strength in commodity pricing, we have a robust level of quotations in orders, particularly in Australia and Asia. Cranes is all about the large infrastructure projects under development around the world, and is likely to remain this way for some time. The North American housing market is having a modest negative impact on the small end of the range, but overall the applications where cranes are more desired and profitable are very strong, particularly the mid-sized and larger…

Thanks, Tom, and now I'd like to comment on the 2008 outlook. We surely understand that the financial headwinds are hard to read right now. We look for signs every day of change and how these changes may affect our business. So far, our customers have endured because the work is there and the need remains. And because much of this need is outside the United States, the risk is moderated somewhat. We will obviously pay close attention to the economic conditions and adapt accordingly as the 2008 year progresses. With rental companies in the U.S being much better managers of fleet, we do not expect they will need to access capital markets in 2008 to support their purchases of equipment. In other words, internal cash flow and normal fleet rotation is what we expect. Furthermore, there is a lot we already know about our 2008 opportunities: from our customers; the geography of our business; and the backlog that we have. Each tells us a lot more of what we know, and gives us confidence that we will have another great year at Terex. We think the fundamentals are strong and the negative markets trends in the U.S. and perhaps in some markets in Europe were not overwhelmed by the positive momentum in our business. We specifically expect to substantially grow revenue and believe we will end the year with net sales in the $10 billion to $10.5 billion range. We do think we will get -- we do not think rather we will get the lift from currency that we did in 2007, so this growth is mostly internally generated. Earnings per share are expected to be in the $6.65 to $7.15 range. This is a pretty nice growth over 2007. We expect the split to be about even between the first and second halves of the year. But frankly, as a maker of big equipment, the revenue can be lumpy as you saw in 2007, in particular with our strong fourth quarter. We have a hard time calendarizing the business in a more definitive way. We do believe that first quarter will be about 35% to 40% of our first half however. In summary, we continue to improve. We expect our tomorrow to be better than today, and we see lots of opportunity in the future. Now, let me open it up to your questions.

(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of David Raso of Citigroup.

Hi, good morning. Two questions one on the crane backlog. Historically you do not put anything beyond 12 months in the backlog, nor any slot orders that you have not put pricing on. So, just trying to calibrate truly the demand for cranes looking out, can you somewhat quantify for us how many -- we'll define it as orders but people wanting cranes beyond the next 12 months, that you're already well aware of. But you're just not putting the backlog officially and also how far you guarantying pricing out right now?

Okay that's first question I will turn it over to Rick.

Okay. David I think we've significant backlog falling into 2009, and 2009 is not priced yet. Okay, so we've order slots and commitment out into 2009. But we've reservation on pricing in the 2009 because we want to be very careful of the steel dynamics going forward. So 2009 is beginning to fill from a total calendar year. But we're not going to give you the specific amount on that. But let's put it this way, it's meaningful.

Yes, it's meaningful.

And regarding '08 pricing, so everything that has a delivery date in '08 has a price already, if I mentioned correctly? But is there a price escalator if raw materials move higher than you thought?

Little bit. There is a combination David. We also have fairly good provisioning on steel pricing out of the Europe and into the U.S. also in this business. So, you've a combination of things provisioning from steel as well as some potential in the pricing area.

Okay. And last question, a big picture on the margins. Clearly we can appreciate the costs related to raw materials, and potential risks to the upside there in the cost. But is there a way you can quantify, and there are always some unintended consequences, when you're building a lot of new plans and so forth, but if your midpoint of guidance is implying roughly about a 50 bps margin improvement year-over-year? How much can '08 be dragged down by structural improvement that you're trying to make, clearly recognizing the European manufacturing base with the challenging and so forth? Is there a way you can quantify that, I'm just trying to think about the margin improvement for '09 and beyond? How much of '08 being dragged down?

David, the way I look at this is pretty simple. We won't get '08 unless we invest in the business, and we won't achieve '09 and 2010 unless we invest in the business. So, in a certain sense we can either go backward or we go forward. We're just choosing to go forward. And so the money we spend is what's going to help us unlock the 12% margin opportunity. If the markets are better than we expect, that margin could go up beyond 12%, if they're not, we still think we can hit the 12% because of margin improvements in other areas. So, that's how we're looking at that. I mean, I wish I could be more definitive. But frankly, this is about what happens when the company grows from $3 billion, which we were in 2002, to nearly $10 billion just five years later, you're going to end up spending money in order to position yourself for that next level of growth past that. You want to add something here, Phil?

I was just going to comment that the manufacturing footprint changes are largely not going to be up and running until later in '08. There are some that are starting. So, it's going to be more like CapEx portion next year and I'll call the logistics are getting in organized and maybe margin contributions except for source.

The infrastructure that's going in, is arguably going to be over the next two to four years. But it's difficult to peg exactly what we're going to spend in '08 and '09 and '10 going forward. I think I would echo Ron's comment about it one kind of goes with the other. If we expect growth in emerging markets we need to have a platform to work off there and that's really what it's all about.

Okay that's all. I'm just trying to think through we've a multiyear investment philosophy and I completely appreciate supporting the growth. So I'm not disputing why you are doing it? It's just we should think about '08, '09 '10 clearly the investments if they're going on is a very positive story for the top line but it's a multiyear process. I'm just trying to….

It is and of course David you know that our measurement scheme is returns on capital. So, we're very conscious of this.

Okay. Great. Thank you very much.

Thanks.

Your next question comes from the line of Terry Darling of Goldman Sachs

Thanks. I guess first question is sort of a follow-up in terms of the pace of your internal investments. In the fourth quarter, your eliminations expense jumped up quite a bit in absolute terms and in terms relative to your revenue base. Can you discuss what's driving that and what we should expect in 2008 on that item?

It's Phil Terry. The impact in the fourth quarter on the eliminations regarding the operating expense was largely related to the performance based incentives. You saw the ROIC exceeded our 41.9% objective. That has an effect on performance stock grants that we had as well as annual incentive. So, that was the biggest piece of specific dollar increase that was in there.

Okay. I think there was a reference in the press release that there were some IT and other efficiency enhancement investments in there, so that's not really the big driver there?

Well, there are some in there, but they weren't the biggest piece.

Thank you. And going forward, what should we expect on that?

I don't think we have indicated specific, other than it's in the total guidance that we've given for next year.

Okay. Second question, can you talk in a little bit more detail about your strategy on Financial Services on a longer-term basis, and some language in the press release sounds like you are accelerating some efforts there, and just trying to think about how the unique environment we have in the credit markets, creates an opportunity or a challenge as you try to build that out?

We've built the infrastructure for the Financial Services organization in '07, and we are starting some work on originating and servicing, but our initial plans are more to sell portfolios, but still keep the visibility and connection with the customer. It's going to be a gradual growth. It's not going to something that will be noticeable in terms of the overall balance sheet, and our intention is really to grow incremental sales as opposed to taking sales that we currently get and finance through others. It's really to provide incremental benefit. So the incremental revenue should justify the returns regarding any investment on the balance sheet that we have. We are seeing some effect in the low-end dirt, engaging products in terms of the people that supply those products in terms of credit exposure, but our bread and butter in the US is really more in Aerial Work Platform business, and we still see pretty good activity in that regard. But our intention on the Financial Services Group in the short term, is really to be incremental sales drivers not to make money in Financial Services, but to provide that customer access and intimacy.

We're growing from crawling to walking.

Yeah. I understand just sounded in a press release there is low acceleration going there. Is there anyway you can now give us the amount of capital you've got to invest in the business today and how much investment you're looking to make in 08?

There is nothing invested in terms of on balance sheet there at this stage, but I would say it could grow to $50 million to a $100 million potentially.

Yeah, it's a still very low numbers. Thanks very much.

Yeah, right.

Your next question comes from the line of Jamie Cook of Credit Suisse.

Good morning and congratulations. Ron, I guess my first question when you look at your guidance for the first quarter, it implies that earnings are going to be about 19% of the full year, if you just take your guidance at the midpoint whereas if we looked and I think over the past two years, it has been more in the 30% range. So I'm just trying to figure out is there anything unusual in the first quarter where the year is going to be more backend loaded is at Aerial Work Platforms or if you could just give your thoughts on that?

Jamie, I'd ask you to go back and double check it, 30% number. I don't think that number is correct. Typically, our first quarter is somewhere in the 20% range and the second quarter is 30% to 35% range and I am not going to continue here, because there is no typical with what I was trying to say in my comments. So I don't find anything unusual about our guidance in the first quarter.

Okay. And then I guess just my second question as it relates to Aerial Work Platforms, I think you noted in your prepared comments, I think in North American AWP was a little softer than you thought. Could you just elaborate that and how you see orders trending for the year? Is it more backend loaded as you speak to sort of the windfall customers?

I thin it was more a normal seasonal pattern really and whereas '06 was the less normal seasonal pattern. But let me turn that over to Tim to give some commentary because I think the overall outlook in North American is probably a little better than we thought. Tim?

Yeah Jamie, in the fourth quarter as Tom said our sales were down high single-digits. I think what we saw was customers were reluctant to commit in the environment we saw in the fourth quarter, but as we got late into the quarter and into the early part of '08, the order pattern has actually been quite encouraging. Orders were reasonably strong in the fourth quarter and into the early part of the first quarter with some of the largest customers placing some orders early.

Okay. And then I guess just lastly just to build on that Tim. As you look at, I mean, I guess the concern for most of the investor based out there as well, the first half may look good at this point, and I think people are concerned about potential cancellations in the back half of the year. So I guess what you do at start to mitigate that and are you assuming any of that in your forecast?

Yeah, go ahead Tim.

Yeah. The first half is obviously where we've greater visibility for the year. Our customers have made indications to us on what they expect to spend for the year. The pattern that we've so far for deliveries looks relatively consistent with previous years. So I am not overly concerned at this point about the second half, obviously as we get closer to it we'll have a better look at it. But at this stage, I don't know that I can give you any further guidance on what the second half might look like relative to where we said today.

We're sitting with basically the same amount of backlog as we had a year ago, and the thing that I would say that's encouraging is that, some of the developing markets are starting to use more aerial work platforms. And we're going to hustle to get some of that business in some of those developing markets, because it's a race. But I don't see anything that is significantly different. But we got to pay attention as I said in my 2008 opening comments on outlook.

All right. Thanks. I'll get back in queue.

Your next question comes from the line of Andrew Obin of Merrill Lynch.

Yes. Good morning. Just a follow-up on Terry's comments on the corporate expense. It is fair to assume though that you're not going to have this bonus expense for the first, second and third quarter next year, right?

Yeah. It would, whatever we typically would accrue to our budgeted performance levels so it's more timing issue.

Can I just also ask you a question on the sale of JV, and just trying to reconcile what I see on the cash flow statement? How much was exactly the gain on the sales? Did you read, if I missed then I'm sorry.

I don't think we indicated. Specifically, it's about $3.5 million.

Okay. And so then if I look at the proceeds of sales, it matches the $3 million that we see in the cash flow statement?

That's correct.

Thank you very much.

All right, Andrew

Your next question comes from the line of Henry Kirn of UBS

Good morning, guys.

Good morning, Henry

My first question, if raw material would escalate what kind of lag would you expect before you'd be able to pass through either a surcharge or price increase?

Well, raw materials have been escalating, and we have been passing on price increases ,and that's how we've been running our business each and every day, probably for the last 36 months. So this is not an unusual event. The only thing that's potentially different here is that steel prices could go up a little bit more like they did two or three years ago. And I think we're ready to react if steel prices go up like they did two or three years ago. I think some of our competitors have already announced some price increases on that. But I think, frankly, we did that in anticipation some time ago. So I'm not sitting here fearful of the lag time other than the fact that it just does take a little bit of time and that's kind of have been our plan.

That's already baked into the guidance for '08.

Well, within reason. Steel goes up 30% to 40%, that's not baked in the guidance, okay. So we'll have to adjust accordingly. And there maybe some pain in there, but if I knew that answer, I'm reminded of what my mother used to say to me, if it was a horse, you could ride it and there are certain contingencies that I can only do contingency planning for. Not to really think that that's what's going to happen in our business.

Fair enough. I guess my follow-up is could you talk about what you're doing with the Indian and Chinese facilities? What you tend to manufacture there and whether they're geared for local or export demand?

Rick, why don't you talk about India and Tom, maybe you can talk about, or Tim could maybe talk about China.

Okay. If I started with India, Henry, I think we're a whole concept around the Indian factory is a campus type of way out. The initial products going into that are, the Powerscreen and Pegson truck crushing and screening equipment. The facility is under design, and we're expecting to break ground soon, with late 2008 really beginning to have production rolling out of that factory. That site, more than likely our next follow on products into that region will be products out of the crane group, which will follow on construction very closely behind the materials processing building structure.

Yeah. Tom, why don't you comment on China?

Yeah, I think in China, we've got a number of things going on both in Tianjin, which is up north of Beijing. We've got a joint plant between the cranes team and the mining team. We are in the process of putting together. The impact will probably be early '09, and the AWP business is in the process of final negotiation for, again, another Terex campus site, a couple of hours away from Shanghai that we believe is an appropriate area, and that will again be kind of an '09, '10 process. In each case, we believe we're going to have a mixed development, as I would call it, as it relates to products for the China domestic market and the Asia Pacific region. And then, on an opportunistic basis, looking at export products back to Western Europe, products and/or components back to U.S and Western Europe markets, okay?

Okay. Thanks a lot. Good quarter, guys.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Robert Wertheimer of Morgan Stanley.

Hi. Good morning, everyone.

Hello, Robert.

I just wanted to ask on the gross margin in 4Q, I know it's lumpy so I don't want to get to precise. But you have a sequential decline that's a little big bigger than the sequential declines you've had in the past periods. And I'm wondering if you could, sort of break up what happened there into materials or maybe it was turning on production lines on AWPs in Europe? Just explain the nature of the decline.

Are you talking the total company or it is--

We'll, I actually started with total and then I switched to AWP so both. But you had a sequential decline in both.

Let me comment I guess on the mix of on the total company, and then Tim wants to comment specifically on AWP. But we did have as I mentioned it in my comments, a very high mix shift to mining trucks, its quarter-over-quarter this quarter, fourth quarter versus last year was about one margin point on the MPM segment itself. So, that was a pretty significant shift regarding that business. I think some of the investments that we've had in AWP in turn may add to this. But we've more significant investments in our international infrastructure and that's been increasing on a trajectory as we go through the year as well as in some of the other segments as well. And I think it will be construction, infrastructure and regional organization and getting that some of our Asian investments as well. So, I think most of the incremental margin we've looked at, a gross margin level looks reasonable as you explained the mining truck mix, and the S&A growth has really been more in these investments and infrastructure. Tim, if you want to comment on AWP.

Yeah actually for AWP our gross profit improved by 70 basis points in the quarter, which we thought reasonably good about. We had an 80 basis point negative impact in SG&A, which was really as Phil just said driven by our increased investments and selling expense principally international markets like we have in Europe, the Middle East, and some of our Asian markets as well. So, the 10 basis point decline in operating margin was really the function of the investment in our international growth.

And I either repeat, I was looking more at the sequential I do know it's lumpy, believe me, but you are down I think 390 bps sequentially and there was a pretty good 3Q. So, I guess the question was, are you surprised by raw materials or was it maybe turning the plans on that you're staring to expense some stuff or it is just nothing?

No for the quarter I mean the fourth quarter for us is typically a quarter of lower production, and we tend to have obviously higher expenses, as a result of that. In '06, we were producing near full steam right straight through all year and the fourth quarter this year was more of a seasonal pattern.

I'm sorry, let me just straight this up.

Well go ahead.

Well broadly are you surprised of the upside in raw materials in 4Q or no?

No.

No

Okay. Thanks.

No. You're looking at sequentially thinking that our margins are coming down, and frankly that's just a matter of how we schedule our productions through the year. It has nothing to do with our costs going up from a raw materials point of view.

That's helpful thanks.

Okay.

Your next question comes from the line of Charlie Brady of BMO Capital Markets.

Hi, thanks good morning. With respect to the material processing and mining segment, I just want to square up your guidance calls for mid to high teens revenue growth, but you got commentary in your release talking about capacity issues for the impede acceleration of the growth is that you imply then that once additional capacity comes online on a normalized basis you'd see even greater accelerating growth or are you factoring something else into your guidance in case to square that up? And also with regard to Superior Highwall Miners, it looks though they've recently received an order out of Russia that simply been a pretty North American business, and could you comment about some of the opportunities you might be seeing outside North America now that is the part of the Terex family?

Okay I'll let Rick handle that second question in the

Superior Highwall

No, Rick will handle the Superior Highwall.

Okay.

What was the first question, I kind of --

Capacity growth.

In the mining business, I got it. I think, what we've done is we've been working on adding capacity. So, our guidance is based upon what our production we can achieve right now. I think to be honest with you, if we could get capacity up further, our revenue could go faster. So, our guidance is really based upon the productivity improvements we've already implemented, and are soon to implement rather than things that you should expect more of in the future and on Superior Highwall, Rick?

Okay. Yes. We're very excited about Superior Highwall. And I think one of the key elements that drove our thinking of acquiring Superior Highwall is, that it was a predominantly North American, Eastern U.S primarily sales oriented business and opening up Russia, China, India and Australia, where we've key operating entities, already from a mining standpoint, really has significant opportunities to grow that business over a period of time, and it's a great product to add to the portfolio of business we have in mining. So, we're very excited. Russia was a nice deal and there are several others on the table around the world that really are incremental to what that business was when we acquired it.

Perhaps if I could just a quick question on the AWP business could you give us, how much were Telehandlers as part of that segment declining in to nine months was down on 10. What was that for the Q4 and for the year?

I don't think we ever said Telehandlers was down 10%.

Fine. I guess, I'm sorry, it's a partly a percentage of the segment of revenues. It's declined from being around I guess 19% of that segment of revenues, down only 10%.

I see.

Where is that as a percentage of revenues? Where is that on a mix, where that's come in from now?

Yeah. I can't give you that specific number but and we really don't like to give specific individual product line summaries. But I will say generally that our fourth quarter Telehandlers business across the board in our aerial work platform business actually was up year-over-year moderately.

Thanks. That's helpful.

Okay.

Your next question comes from the line of Joel Tiss of Lehman Brothers.

Good morning. How is it going?

Hi, Joel.

Can you just -- first a clarification, can you give us which segment ASVI is going to go into when you consolidate it.

It will go into our construction segment on a financial reporting basis. I'm sorry.

Yeah. That's not -- we don't include that in our guidance, Joel, till it's acquired. That's what you're getting at.

Yeah. No I just read. I just want to put it all together so I have the right basis and all that.

Yeah. The other point I wanted to make about that before, my guys are going to cut me off, I was going to say that while it will be in the construction segment, I expect it to be part of the overall Terex family. And I think there are other opportunities there that it can add to the whole companies business.

Okay. And the first question, can we just spend a minute on the crane business, you made some comments that some parts of the business are seeing supply demand coming into a little bit better balance, and other areas are still sold out. Can you give us any sense of what parts of the portfolio, what percentage of the portfolio of cranes are seeing the supply-demand getting into better balance? And if you could also tie it back to end markets, is it construction related or are you seeing anything in the infrastructure side of things that would indicate any supply-demand coming into balance.

Well, I want to be careful about supply-demand coming into balance. What we said was, our very small equipment in North America, like a boom trucks and the very smallest cranes we make, we were the only one, but we didn't see any affect of the North American slowdown on it. Virtually in all of the remaining parts of our crane product line, we're running very fast to try and catch up with demand. And I would say that our order rate outstrips our ability to produce at this stage. Rick, you want to add, is there anything?

No. I would agree with that. I think being in the business a very short period of time, I definitely see real opportunity to grow capacity and capability of the cranes business, both locally, and on a much larger geographic basis, and the demand is there, if we can grow that capacity and capability, both from a footprint standpoint and from a supply chain standpoint.

Steve, do you want to add anything from your experience?

No. The only affect that we had is in North America on the smaller boom trucks. Everything else is full out, and I think the other question was a little bit around the markets that are driving it and I think we commented in the statement that, it's really about infrastructure and energy and developing markets. Whether it is nuclear, coal power, renewable energy, liquid natural gas, that's really what's driving the crane business today. And there are a lot of projects still to be done in infrastructure in developed markets, such as North America with highway build. In Europe there is still a lot of development for energy and power, and infrastructure. And when we talk about infrastructure, its hospitals, its schools, it's roads, it's really everything that needs to be done. So I think the outlook is positive. And I don't think that like as Ron said, you know we still are ramping up and we still need to ramp up because demand is still very strong for the product.

And we expect you to sell a bunch more in those developing markets.

I'll right.

And any indication or anything you can help us with on the percent of the portfolio, that's energy related versus construction related?

Joel, that's very hard for us to do. But you're on an important area because energy at Louisiana as a state on a per capita basis has more cranes per state than any other state in the nation. Why is that? It's because of the oil refineries, and it's the gasoline refineries rather that are located there. And every gasoline refinery has to be turned down every number of years, and they use a tremendous amount of cranes. But it's very hard for us to do that. I mean I heard a statistic the other day that wind power has dramatically gone up, and how do the wind propellers get erected? Through the use of cranes. And so it's a tough thing that you're asking us to narrowly focus on per of end use because we sell through rental companies and we don't have that visibility so.

Okay. Just a question. Then the last one any difference in the margins in the area where platforms inside the U.S. versus rest of the world?

I would say generally not although the currency has clearly helped us in the rest of the world, but sometime we have to give up a little bit to get a little bit too, so it's hard for us to discretely analyze that.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Your next question comes from the line of Andy Casey of Wachovia Securities.

Good morning.

Hi, Andy.

Two questions. First, kind of short-term on AWP for backlog, did that include North American rental customer orders for '08 or did those orders come in Q1? And then back of that was that the same pattern in Q4 '06 or did the rental companies ordered in Q4 for'07?

Tim?

The backlog at the end of '07 did not include much in the form of '08 early orders from large customers. So there wasn't a lot of forward ordering at that stage. '06 probably had a little bit more in it than earlier ordering than -- it certainly had more early ordering than we had in '07. That's for sure.

Right. That's right.

Okay. So it's not a direct comparable because of the timing there?

But what we're seeing now Andrew, is probably more consistent with the historical patterns of this business.

Okay. Then, on the construction margin performance. SG&A as a percentage of Q4 sales, decreased more than I expected and it was well below the average for '07, is the Q4 performance a result of the internal improvement work or is that totally a function of strong sales growth?

Yeah. Bob, do you want that question?

I think it's predominant with group wise sales, although, we do have substantial amount of optimization of our current portfolio from across our (inaudible) that standpoint.

Okay. With the backlog at least near term that should be roughly sustainable prior to ASVI inclusion?

Yeah. Prior to ASVI. Right.

That's correct

Okay. Thank you very much

Your next question comes from the line of Chris [Walter] of Robert W Baird

Good morning, guys. A quick clean up questions. Do you have the revenue impact of Highwall in the quarter and how much backlog it added?

It's insignificant in terms of the revenue in the quarter. I am not going to give a specific amount.

I think we bought the business in middle of November. So basically it's insignificant and…

(inaudible), Bob?

Yeah. I don't even think we could find it.

What about the backlog contribution?

We're not going to give that out. That's specific in rental.

Okay. Could you talk about the pricing environment you're facing, particularly in North America versus Europe and to what extent, a more active Terex Financial Services help you compete in that regard?

In the pricing environment

Well, I think the pricing environment continues to be little uncertain, stable at the moment, but frankly, I think there is some concerns we mentioned earlier, on steel pricing what the impact is going to be, Ron had mentioned and we've seen some more competition being right on front with some fairly aggressive price increases, or moderating it, but excluding this factor, frankly, it's been a quite fairly moderate point in terms of pricing both from a raw material standpoint and the finished products standpoint from our perspective.

Is there any material difference between North America and Europe at this point?

No, frankly Europe may be a little bit more aggressive in terms of the pricing environment both our finished product as well as the raw material but not substantially so.

Okay. Thank you.

I'll comment on the financial services, if my voice holds out then I'll try to answer. But what we're really trying to do with that financial services group, is provide good creative solutions to customers that need that avenue to purchase the equipment. So, when you talk about incremental orders, what's the cost per month of that equipment? Can we go in with a solution that is creative and flexible to meet the customers need, and I think that we're growing and trying to improve in that area, and particular in North America and certain areas in Europe. We've investment and a JV in Europe as well, which provides some of that coverage currently. But it's a growing opportunity for us.

Thank you.

Your next question comes from the line of Kent Green of Boston American Asset Management.

Yeah. I just had a quick question on the margins over the mining equipment segment. Has there been any pricing on the trucks that are there, or is it just too many producers because we're hearing a lot of comment about big cranes in the mining equipment, which are getting very good price increases?

Well I think the truck business; this is Rick by the way Kent. The truck business has been somewhat of a challenging business for us over a long period of time. We've done a good job of increasing margins in the business. But it still is on a relative basis, a lower margin product then our excavator products or our drill products or our new Superior Highwall mining products. So, when you've a larger sales mix move to a lower margin project, I think it just swings the portfolio a bit. And historically, we've been quite outsourced with our mining truck business in an effort to keep our fixed cost down given the fact that this business is so lumpy. 60% of our total cost is from the drive system and the engine and we don't make either one of those. So, we've a better margin than as a distributor, but not as a good a margin as if we were a true manufacturer.

Just a follow-up question the crane competitor has made a lot to do about division, the crane care, 24 hour service, parts of business that kind of stuff, where it's up to 15% or 20% of their total sales. Have you started such an initiative, or is it ongoing, or could you disclose whether there is any indication that you'd want to increase this part of your business?

Steve, do you want to comment on that?

Sure yes. Ken, I'd say that we're doing a similar program, it's much more by geography for example in North America our crane service team is located in Wilmington, North Carolina and we've a 24 hour on call service in Europe it's based in Germany and we've a facility now in Dubai. So, I'd say that we're doing similar things as our competitors to serve our customers. But we still have much more work to do. I think this is an opportunity for not only the cranes business, but Terex in general to improve on and we need to continue developing it. I think that the competitor you're talking about probably market it does a good marketing job with it rather than how we go to market but opportunity and we're doing it.

Yeah. And I'd say our parts and service business is probably not a lot different from a revenue perspective. So it's just I think marketing wise, maybe we could blow our horn a little bit better, and I think that's something we'll consider and general in the aftermarket for all Terex products in the future.

Thank you.

(Operator Instructions) Your next question comes from the line of Robert Marcin of Defiance Asset Management.

Good morning guys. Congratulations on a great year, and it looks as though the global infrastructure lives despite the U.S. housing market and structural finance market issues?

Thanks.

With all the initiatives you have, this is not a question but just an observation. How about one of the initiatives to improve your forecasting capabilities two years ago, you guided that to $6.7 to $7 billion and $3 and you did $7.7 billion and $0.04 a share on earnings. Last year you guided to $82 billion to $85 billion in revenue, and $5 to $5.40 in earnings, and delivered $9.1 billion and almost $6 a share in earnings. So, with all those initiatives, maybe we could put something together that gets us closer to an outlook that's closer to the fundamentals, or are we're being very conservative on an ongoing basis, where we're being not only surprised by how strong this global infrastructure boom really is? My question is regarding the mining business with what's happening with iron ore prices and coal shortages and all this stuff. What inning, are we in the mining infrastructure spend cycle, and as the follow up is there still more bolt on transactions we could do in the mining business at less than two times revenues? Thank you very much.

Less than two times revenues?

Yeah, Ron we've become a gross stock acquirer out there with the last two transactions. We've

The future is what determines how you make decisions of course. And I think your comment about forecasting and trust me I think Tom Riordan has had that conversation with a number of our operating teams. But frankly…

Although being said, we've got a team in Ron's office currently polishing-up this crystal ball.

Just you guys being very conservative, I hope, anyway. On the mining business, where do we stand in your opinion and still opportunity for bolt-on. I just can't imagine the excavator business or the drilling business not just booming for another few years with all of the new projects in iron ore and coal etcetera that are all in the place of global mining companies?

I think we're in the fourth or fifth innings here. I'd say a very good future potential in my opinion. I think we in the industry believe that we're in a protracted global commodities boom. I think, what's driving that is the same thing that everybody else says, and that is basically 2 billion to 3 billion people coming into the modern age. And with those 2 billion or 3 billion people coming into the modern age, the requirements for copper, iron ore, coal, oil, and all the things that drive consumption of some of our products is going to be high. So I'm very positive about that. Our ability to find both on acquisitions in the mining area, we're working on them. I think they're impossible to handicap and I don't think anybody should look at us and say, we're going to do a huge mining deal because we are not. But I think there are opportunities in certain markets to do things and complement on mining business and we're oriented to do that.

Thank you very much. Congratulations on a great 2007. Looking forward to being a significant shareholder into a great 2008.

Thanks Bob

Your next question comes from the line of Seth Weber of Bank of America.

Hi, thanks. Good morning, everybody.

Good morning, Seth

Good morning, Seth.

Just of my questions have been frankly asked and answered, but couple of quick clarifications and sorry, if I missed it, but could you give the aerial split U.S international for the fourth quarter and what you think that will be for next year? And then a follow-up question is, I think last quarter you talked about, there were some backlog that, maybe 10% of the backlog that didn't get shipped. I mean, was that part of the tailwind here for the fourth quarter? Is that reconciled at this point or is that still kind of out there?

Let me answer the second question, we still have approximately I think, 10% or say, high single digits to 10 that's past due. It's largely in the crane's group, the rest of the segments seem to be catching up in terms of what we have.

And I think that's important, Phil, to point out because it will cause some lumpiness in our cash flow.

That' right.

Because we're still working to try and get those orders through the system, but I think we did catch-up. They were actually even more, I mean we caught up on some of the longest term ones, but what went into the bucket also was pretty substantial. And on that split between North America and Europe, I don't have that at this time. Tim, do you have that at your finger tips?

Yes, I do. For the fourth quarter, North America was actually below 50% and our international business was greater than 50%.

Okay.

For the year it was about 55%-45%.

Okay. Great. The year ended pretty much where we thought it would end then.

Okay. And then for 08, it should be little bit, maybe more than 50% international than it sounds like.

No. I wouldn't say that necessarily more than 50% international. I would say, we are probably in the 50-50 or a little bit more North America than international.

Okay. Thanks very much guys.

Okay.

Our next question comes from the line of Steve Barger of KeyBanc. Steve Barger – KeyBanc: Hi, good morning.

Hi, Steve. Steve Barger – KeyBanc: Just a quick one on the guidance, your assumption for share counts 104 million, which is I think basically flat year-over-year but you have the buyback in place. Does the guidance account for any share buyback?

Share count is not as easy to calculate as you might think with the accounting rules that we have. Share count change is based on stock price levels and also the performance based shares that we have. Our stock grants are linked to performance of the Company. So, we have included all of those factors, including share buybacks and our estimates. And I'm not going to give you specifics as to how much in either direction at this stage? Steve Barger – KeyBanc: Okay. Thanks very much.

Welcome.

At this time, there are no further questions. I would now like to turn the call back to Ron DeFeo for closing remarks.

All right. Thank you very much Lorie and thank you everyone on the call. We appreciate your interest in Terex this morning. Please call Tom Gelston, Phil Widman, myself or others if you need follow-up information. Thank you.

Thank you. That does conclude today's Terex Corporation's fourth quarter 2007 earnings release conference call. You may now disconnect.