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                                CREDIT AGREEMENT

                            dated as of March 6, 1998



                                      among



                               TEREX CORPORATION,

                          CERTAIN OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES,


                            THE LENDERS NAMED HEREIN,


                           CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON,

                            as Administrative Agent,

                                BANKBOSTON N.A.,

                              as Syndication Agent,

                                       and

                     CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE and
                            FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
                           as Co-Documentation Agents



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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                           

                                    ARTICLE I

                                   Definitions                             Page


SECTION 1.01.   Defined Terms...............................................   2
SECTION 1.02.   Terms Generally.............................................  28
SECTION 1.03.   Exchange Rates..............................................  29


                                   ARTICLE II

                                   The Credits

SECTION 2.01.   Commitments.................................................  29
SECTION 2.02.   Loans.......................................................  30
SECTION 2.03.   Borrowing Procedure.........................................  32
SECTION 2.04.   Evidence of Debt; Repayment of Loans........................  33
SECTION 2.05.   Fees........................................................  33
SECTION 2.06.   Interest on Loans...........................................  35
SECTION 2.07.   Default Interest............................................  35
SECTION 2.08.   Alternate Rate of Interest..................................  36
SECTION 2.09.   Termination and Reduction of Commitments....................  36
SECTION 2.10.   Conversion and Continuation of Borrowings...................  37
SECTION 2.11.   Repayment of Term Borrowings................................  39
SECTION 2.12.   Prepayment..................................................  40
SECTION 2.13.   Mandatory Prepayments.......................................  41
SECTION 2.14.   Reserve Requirements; Change in Circumstances...............  44
SECTION 2.15.   Change in Legality..........................................  45
SECTION 2.16.   Indemnity...................................................  46
SECTION 2.17.   Pro Rata Treatment..........................................  46
SECTION 2.18.   Sharing of Setoffs..........................................  47
SECTION 2.19.   Payments....................................................  47
SECTION 2.20.   Taxes.......................................................  48
SECTION 2.21.   Assignment of Commitments Under Certain Circumstances;
                   Duty to Mitigate.........................................  50
SECTION 2.22.   Swingline Loans.............................................  51
SECTION 2.23.   Letters of Credit...........................................  52
SECTION 2.24.   A/C Fronted Loans...........................................  56
SECTION 2.25.   Reporting Requirements of A/C Fronting Lenders
                   and Issuing Banks........................................  58
SECTION 2.26.   Additional Issuing Banks....................................  59




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                                   ARTICLE III

                         Representations and Warranties

SECTION 3.01.   Organization; Powers........................................  59
SECTION 3.02.   Authorization...............................................  59
SECTION 3.03.   Enforceability..............................................  60
SECTION 3.04.   Governmental Approvals......................................  60
SECTION 3.05.   Financial Statements........................................  60
SECTION 3.06.   No Material Adverse Change..................................  60
SECTION 3.07.   Title to Properties; Possession Under Leases................  60
SECTION 3.08.   Subsidiaries................................................  61
SECTION 3.09.   Litigation; Compliance with Laws............................  61
SECTION 3.10.   Agreements..................................................  62
SECTION 3.11.   Federal Reserve Regulations.................................  62
SECTION 3.12.   Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding
                   Company Act..............................................  62
SECTION 3.13.   Use of Proceeds.............................................  62
SECTION 3.14.   Tax Returns.................................................  62
SECTION 3.15.   No Material Misstatements...................................  62
SECTION 3.16.   Employee Benefit Plans......................................  63
SECTION 3.17.   Environmental Matters.......................................  63
SECTION 3.18.   Insurance...................................................  64
SECTION 3.19.   Security Documents..........................................  64
SECTION 3.20.   Location of Real Property and Leased Premises...............  65
SECTION 3.21.   Labor Matters...............................................  65
SECTION 3.22.   Solvency....................................................  65


                                   ARTICLE IV

                              Conditions of Lending

SECTION 4.01.   All Credit Events...........................................  66
SECTION 4.02.   First Credit Event..........................................  66

                                    ARTICLE V

                              Affirmative Covenants

SECTION 5.01.   Existence; Businesses and Properties........................  70
SECTION 5.02.   Insurance...................................................  70
SECTION 5.03.   Obligations and Taxes.......................................  72
SECTION 5.04.   Financial Statements, Reports, etc. ........................  72
SECTION 5.05.   Litigation and Other Notices................................  73
SECTION 5.06.   Employee Benefits...........................................  73
SECTION 5.07.   Maintaining Records; Access to Properties
                   and Inspections..........................................  74
SECTION 5.08.   Use of Proceeds.............................................  74
SECTION 5.09.   Compliance with Environmental Laws..........................  74



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SECTION 5.10.   Preparation of Environmental Reports........................  74
SECTION 5.11.   Further Assurances..........................................  74
SECTION 5.12.   Interest Rate Protection Agreements.........................  75


                                   ARTICLE VI

                               Negative Covenants

SECTION 6.01.   Indebtedness................................................  76
SECTION 6.02.   Liens.......................................................  77
SECTION 6.03.   Sale and Lease-Back Transactions............................  79
SECTION 6.04.   Investments, Loans and Advances.............................  79
SECTION 6.05.   Mergers, Consolidations, Sales of Assets and Acquisitions...  80
SECTION 6.06.   Dividends and Distributions; Restrictions on Ability of
                   Subsidiaries to Pay Dividends............................  81
SECTION 6.07.   Transactions with Affiliates................................  81
SECTION 6.08.   Business of Borrowers and Subsidiaries......................  81
SECTION 6.09.   Other Indebtedness and Agreements...........................  82
SECTION 6.10.   Capital Expenditures........................................  82
SECTION 6.11.   Consolidated Leverage Ratio.................................  83
SECTION 6.12.   Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio........................  83
SECTION 6.13.   Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio....................  83
SECTION 6.14.   Fiscal Year.................................................  83

                                   ARTICLE VII

                                Events of Default...........................  84
                                


                                  ARTICLE VIII

               The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent............  86


                                   ARTICLE IX

                                  Miscellaneous

SECTION 9.01.   Notices.....................................................  88
SECTION 9.02.   Survival of Agreement.......................................  89
SECTION 9.03.   Binding Effect..............................................  89
SECTION 9.04.   Successors and Assigns......................................  89
SECTION 9.05.   Expenses; Indemnity.........................................  92
SECTION 9.06.   Right of Setoff.............................................  93
SECTION 9.07.   Applicable Law..............................................  93
SECTION 9.08.   Waivers; Amendment..........................................  94
SECTION 9.09.   Interest Rate Limitation....................................  94
SECTION 9.10.   Entire Agreement............................................  95
SECTION 9.11.   WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL........................................  95




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SECTION 9.12.   Severability................................................  95
SECTION 9.13.   Counterparts................................................  95
SECTION 9.14.   Headings....................................................  95
SECTION 9.15.   Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.................  95
SECTION 9.16.   Conversion of Currencies....................................  96
SECTION 9.17.   Confidentiality.............................................  97
SECTION 9.18.   European Monetary Union.....................................  97
SECTION 9.19.   German Borrower.............................................  98


SCHEDULES

Schedule 1.01(a)  Additional Cost
Schedule 1.01(b)  Subsidiary Guarantors
Schedule 1.01(c)  Mortgaged Properties
Schedule 1.01(d)  Existing Letters of Credit
Schedule 1.01(e)  Certain Countries
Schedule 1.01(f)  Inactive Subsidiaries
Schedule 1.01(g)  Subordination Provisions
Schedule 2.01(a)  Lenders; Commitments
Schedule 2.01(b)  Sublimits for Alternative Currency Extensions of Credit
Schedule 3.08     Subsidiaries
Schedule 3.09     Litigation
Schedule 3.17     Environmental Matters
Schedule 3.18     Insurance
Schedule 3.19(d)  Mortgage Filing Offices
Schedule 3.20(a)  Owned Real Property
Schedule 3.20(b)  Leased Real Property
Schedule 4.02(a)  Local Counsel
Schedule 6.01     Indebtedness
Schedule 6.02     Liens
Schedule 6.04     Investments


EXHIBITS

Exhibit A       Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit B       Form of Borrowing Request
Exhibit C       Form of Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement
Exhibit D       Form of Mortgage
Exhibit E       Form of Pledge Agreement
Exhibit F       Form of Security Agreement
Exhibit G       Form of Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement
Exhibit H       Form of Terex Guarantee
Exhibit I-1     Form of Opinion of Eric Cohen
Exhibit I-2     Form of Local Counsel Opinion



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                                            CREDIT  AGREEMENT  dated as of March
                                    6, 1998, among TEREX CORPORATION, a Delaware
                                    corporation   ("Terex"),   TEREX   EQUIPMENT
                                    LIMITED,  a company organized under the laws
                                    of  Scotland  (the   "Scottish   Borrower"),
                                    P.P.M.  S.A., a company  organized under the
                                    laws of the  Republic of France (the "French
                                    Borrower"),  UNIT RIG (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD.,
                                    a  company  organized  under the laws of the
                                    New South Wales,  Australia (the "Australian
                                    Borrower"),  and  P.P.M.  Sp.A.,  a  company
                                    organized  under the laws of the Republic of
                                    Italy (the "Italian Borrower"),  the Lenders
                                    (as defined in Article I), the Issuing Banks
                                    (as defined in Article I) and CREDIT  SUISSE
                                    FIRST  BOSTON,  a bank  organized  under the
                                    laws of Switzerland,  acting through its New
                                    York  branch  ("CSFB"),   as  administrative
                                    agent (in such capacity, the "Administrative
                                    Agent")  and as  collateral  agent  (in such
                                    capacity,  the  "Collateral  Agent") for the
                                    Lenders.


         Terex  intends  to (a)  refinance  indebtedness  outstanding  under the
Existing Credit  Agreement (such term and each other  capitalized  term used but
not defined  herein  having the meaning  given it in Article I) and (b) offer to
purchase (the "Debt Tender  Offer") all its  outstanding  13-1/4% Senior Secured
Notes due 2002 (the  "Existing  Notes") and, in connection  therewith,  seek the
consent (the  "Consent  Solicitation")  of the holders of the Existing  Notes to
amend certain of the provisions of the indenture (the "Existing Note Indenture")
governing the Existing  Notes.  Certain of the  Subsidiary  Borrowers  intend to
refinance  (together  with the  refinancing  referred  to in  clause  (a) of the
preceding sentence,  the "Refinancing")  certain of their existing indebtedness.
In  addition,  following  the  Closing  Date,  Terex  intends  to  acquire  (the
"Acquisition")  all the  outstanding  capital  shares  of O&K  Mining  from  O&K
Orenstein & Koppel AG and to issue the Senior Subordinated Notes.

         The Borrowers  have  requested the Lenders to extend credit in the form
of (a) Tranche A Term Loans to be made on the Closing  Date and on one other day
during the Tranche A Term Loan Availability  Period,  in an aggregate  principal
amount  not in excess of  $175,000,000  (or the  Dollar  Equivalent  thereof  in
Alternative  Currencies),  (b)  Tranche B Term  Loans to be made on the  Closing
Date, in an aggregate  principal amount not in excess of  $200,000,000,  and (c)
Revolving  Loans to be made at any time and from time to time  during the period
from the Closing Date to the  Revolving  Credit  Maturity  Date, in an aggregate
principal  amount at any time  outstanding not in excess of $125,000,000 (or the
Dollar  Equivalent  thereof  in  Alternative  Currencies).  The  Borrowers  have
requested the A/C Fronting Lenders and the Swingline Lender to extend credit, at
any time and from time to time during the period  from the  Closing  Date to the
Revolving  Credit  Maturity Date, in the form of A/C Fronted Loans and Swingline
Loans,  respectively.  The Borrowers  have  requested the Issuing Banks to issue
letters of credit,  in an aggregate face amount at any time  outstanding  not in
excess  of  $35,000,000  (or  the  Dollar  Equivalent   thereof  in  Alternative
Currencies),  to support payment obligations  incurred in the ordinary course of
business by the Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries. The proceeds of the
Term  Loans,  together  with a portion of the  Revolving  Loans,  are to be used
solely (a) on the Closing Date, (i) to effect the  Refinancing,  (ii) to finance
the Debt Tender  Offer,  (iii) to pay  related  fees and  expenses  and (iv) for
working capital purposes and (b) on the date on which the Acquisition is



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consummated,  to fund a portion of the cash  consideration  therefor  and to pay
related fees and expenses,  and the proceeds of the Revolving Loans, A/C Fronted
Loans and Swingline Loans (other than the Loans used for the purposes previously
specified in this sentence) are to be used solely for working  capital and other
general corporate purposes, including the financing of the Acquisition and other
Permitted Acquisitions.

         The Lenders are willing to extend such credit to the  Borrowers and the
Issuing  Banks are  willing to issue  letters  of credit for the  account of the
Borrowers  on  the  terms  and  subject  to the  conditions  set  forth  herein.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:


                                    ARTICLE I

                                   Definitions

         SECTION 1.01.  Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement,  the following
terms shall have the meanings specified below:

         "ABR Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of ABR Loans.

         "ABR Loan" shall mean any ABR Term Loan or ABR Revolving Loan.

         "ABR Revolving Loan" shall mean any Revolving Loan bearing  interest at
a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the
provisions of Article II.

         "ABR Term  Borrowing"  shall  mean a  Borrowing  comprised  of ABR Term
Loans.

         "ABR  Term  Loan"  shall  mean any ABR  Tranche  A Term Loan or any ABR
Tranche B Term Loan.

         "ABR  Tranche A Term Loan" shall mean any  Tranche A Term Loan  bearing
interest  at a rate  determined  by  reference  to the  Alternate  Base  Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.

         "ABR  Tranche B Term Loan" shall mean any  Tranche B Term Loan  bearing
interest  at a rate  determined  by  reference  to the  Alternate  Base  Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.

         "A/C  Fronted Base Rate" shall mean,  for any day,  with respect to any
A/C Fronted Loan, a rate per annum (rounded upwards,  if necessary,  to the next
1/16 of 1%)  equal  to the  average  rate at  which  overnight  deposits  in the
currency  in  which  the  applicable   A/C  Fronted  Loan  is  denominated   and
approximately  equal in principal amount to such A/C Fronted Loan are obtainable
by the applicable A/C Fronting Lender on such day at its lending office for such
A/C Fronted  Loan in the  interbank  market (or any other  market for  overnight
funds in such  currency  utilized  by such A/C  Fronting  Lender),  adjusted  to
reflect any direct or  indirect  costs of  obtaining  such  deposits  (including
reserve and assessment  costs, to the extent  applicable).  The A/C Fronted Base
Rate  applicable to any A/C Fronted Loan shall be determined for each day by the
A/C  Fronting  Lender in  respect of such Loan and such  determination  shall be
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notify the  applicable  Borrower  and the  Administrative  Agent  promptly  upon
establishing  the A/C Fronted  Base Rate for any A/C Fronted  Loan,  or upon any
change thereto.

         "A/C  Fronted  Base Rate Loans" shall mean any A/C Fronted Loan bearing
interest at a rate  determined  by  reference  to the A/C  Fronted  Base Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.

         "A/C Fronted  Exposure" shall mean, at any time, the Dollar  Equivalent
of the aggregate  principal  amount of all outstanding A/C Fronted Loans at such
time. The A/C Fronted  Exposure of any Revolving Credit Lender at any time shall
equal its Pro Rata  Percentage  of the  aggregate  A/C Fronted  Exposure at such
time.

         "A/C  Fronted  Fixed Rate Loan" shall mean any A/C Fronted Loan bearing
interest at a rate  determined by reference to the Bank Bill Rate or the Italian
Fixed Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article II.

         "A/C Fronted  Loan" shall mean any loan made by an A/C Fronting  Lender
pursuant to its A/C Fronting Commitment.

         "A/C Fronting  Commitment" shall mean, with respect to any Lender,  the
commitment  of such Lender to make Loans  pursuant to Section 2.24, as set forth
on Schedule 2.01(a),  or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such
Lender assumed its A/C Fronting  Commitment,  as applicable,  as the same may be
reduced  from  time  to  time  pursuant  to  Section  2.24(f)  and  pursuant  to
assignments by such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04.

         "A/C  Fronting  Fees" shall have the  meaning  assigned to such term in
Section 2.05(e).

         "A/C  Fronting  Lender"  shall  mean (a)  with  respect  to  Australian
Dollars,  the  Australian  Fronting  Lender,  and (b) with respect to Lire,  the
Italian Fronting Lender.

         "A/C  Participation  Fees" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 2.05(d).

         "Acquired  Indebtedness"  shall mean Indebtedness of a person or any of
its  subsidiaries  (the "Acquired  Person") (a) existing at the time such person
becomes a  Subsidiary  of Terex or at the time it merges  or  consolidates  with
Terex  or  any  of its  Subsidiaries  or (b)  assumed  in  connection  with  the
acquisition  of assets  from such  person;  provided  in each case that (i) such
Indebtedness  was not created in contemplation  of such  acquisition,  merger or
consolidation  and (ii) such  acquisition,  merger or consolidation is otherwise
permitted under this Agreement.

         "Acquired  Person" shall have the meaning  assigned to such term in the
definition of the term "Acquired Indebtedness".

         "Acquisition"  shall  have the  meaning  assigned  to such  term in the
preamble to this Agreement.

         "Additional  Cost" shall mean,  in  relation to any  Borrowing  that is
denominated  in Pounds and is made by the  Scottish  Borrower,  for any Interest
Period, the cost as calculated by the Administrative Agent in accordance with



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Schedule  1.01(a)  imputed to each Lender  participating  in such  Borrowing  of
compliance with the mandatory liquid assets  requirements of the Bank of England
during that Interest Period, expressed as a percentage.

         "Additional  Subordinated  Notes" shall mean  subordinated  notes in an
aggregate  principal amount at any time  outstanding not to exceed  $150,000,000
and issued from time to time by Terex, or assumed in connection with a Permitted
Acquisition,  after the issuance of the Senior Subordinated Notes; provided that
(a) except in the case of  Additional  Subordinated  Notes assumed in connection
with a Permitted Acquisition,  the Net Cash Proceeds thereof are used either (i)
to finance one or more  Permitted  Acquisitions  or (ii) to prepay Term Loans in
accordance with Section 2.13(e),  (b) such subordinated notes do not require any
scheduled  payment  of  principal  prior to a date that is 12  months  after the
Tranche  B  Maturity  Date  and  (c)  the  subordination  provisions  and  other
non-pricing  terms  and  conditions  of  such  subordinated  notes  are no  less
favorable to the Loan Parties and the Lenders than the  analogous  provisions of
the Senior Subordinated Notes.

         "Adjusted  LIBO Rate"  shall  mean,  with  respect to any  Eurocurrency
Borrowing for any Interest Period,  an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards,
if necessary,  to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the LIBO Rate in effect for such
Interest Period multiplied by Statutory Reserves;  provided,  however,  that, if
such Eurocurrency Borrowing is denominated in Pounds and is made by the Scottish
Borrower,  then the  "Adjusted  LIBO Rate"  shall be the LIBO Rate in effect for
such Interest Period plus Additional Cost.

         "Administrative  Agent Fees"  shall have the  meaning  assigned to such
term in Section 2.05(b).

         "Administrative    Questionnaire"    shall   mean   an   Administrative
Questionnaire in the form of Exhibit A.

         "Affiliate"  shall mean, when used with respect to a specified  person,
another person that directly,  or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
Controls  or is  Controlled  by or is  under  common  Control  with  the  person
specified.

         "Aggregate  Revolving  Credit Exposure" shall mean the aggregate amount
of the Lenders' Revolving Credit Exposures.

         "Agreement  Currency"  shall have the meaning  assigned to such term in
Section 9.16.

         "Alternate  Base  Rate"  shall  mean,  for any day,  a rate  per  annum
(rounded upwards, if necessary,  to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the greater of
(a) the Prime  Rate in effect on such day and (b) the  Federal  Funds  Effective
Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%. If for any reason the  Administrative
Agent shall have  determined  (which  determination  shall be conclusive  absent
manifest  error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate
for any reason,  including the inability or failure of the Administrative  Agent
to obtain  sufficient  quotations in accordance with the terms of the definition
thereof,  the Alternate  Base Rate shall be determined  without regard to clause
(b) of the  preceding  sentence  until  the  circumstances  giving  rise to such
inability no longer exist. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change
in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds  Effective Rate shall be effective on the
effective  date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds  Effective
Rate, respectively. The term "Prime Rate" shall mean the rate of interest per



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annum publicly  announced from time to time by the  Administrative  Agent as its
prime rate in effect at its  principal  office in New York City;  each change in
the Prime Rate shall be effective on the date such change is publicly  announced
as being effective.  The term "Federal Funds Effective Rate" shall mean, for any
day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight  Federal funds  transactions
with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as
published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York,  or, if such rate is not so published  for any day that is a Business Day,
the average of the quotations for the day for such transactions  received by the
Administrative  Agent from three Federal  funds  brokers of recognized  standing
selected by it.

         "Alternative  Currency"  shall mean (a) with  respect to Tranche A Term
Loans, Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit, Marks, Pounds and Francs, (b) with
respect to A/C Fronted Loans and Letters of Credit,  Australian Dollars and Lire
and (c) with respect to Letters of Credit,  any other foreign  currency which is
approved by the applicable A/C Fronting Lender and the applicable  Issuing Bank,
in each case in its sole discretion.

         "Alternative  Currency  Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing  comprised of
Alternative Currency Loans.

         "Alternative   Currency   Equivalent"   shall  mean,  on  any  date  of
determination,  with respect to any amount denominated in dollars in relation to
any specified Alternative Currency, the equivalent in such specified Alternative
Currency of such  amount in  dollars,  determined  by the  Administrative  Agent
pursuant to Section 1.03 using the applicable Exchange Rate then in effect.

          "Alternative  Currency  Loan"  shall mean any Loan  denominated  in an
Alternative Currency.

         "Alternative  Currency  Revolving  Credit  Exposure" shall mean, at any
time  with  respect  to any  Alternative  Currency,  the sum of (a)  the  Dollar
Equivalent  of the  aggregate  principal  amount  of all A/C  Fronted  Loans and
outstanding Revolving Loans that are denominated in such Alternative Currency at
such time,  (b) the Dollar  Equivalent  of the aggregate  undrawn  amount of all
outstanding Letters of Credit that are denominated in such Alternative  Currency
at such time and (c) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate  principal amount of
all L/C  Disbursements  in respect of Letters of Credit that are  denominated in
such Alternative Currency at such time.

         "Alternative  Currency  Revolving  Loan"  shall mean a  Revolving  Loan
denominated in an Alternative Currency.

         "Alternative  Currency  Term  Loan"  shall  mean a  Tranche A Term Loan
denominated in an Alternative Currency. Each Alternative Currency Term Loan must
be a Eurocurrency Term Loan.

         "Applicable  Percentage"  shall mean,  for any day, with respect to any
Eurocurrency  Revolving  Loan,  Eurocurrency  Tranche A Term Loan,  Eurocurrency
Tranche B Term Loan, ABR Revolving  Loan, ABR Tranche A Term Loan, ABR Tranche B
Term Loan,  A/C Fronted Loan or with respect to the Facility  Fees,  as the case
may  be,  the   applicable   percentage   set  forth  below  under  the  caption
"Eurocurrency Spread--Tranche A Term Loans and Revolving Loans", "Eurocurrency


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Spread--Tranche B Term Loans",  "ABR  Spread--Tranche A Term Loans and Revolving
Loans",  "ABR  Spread--Tranche  B Term  Loans",  "A/C  Fronted  Loan  Spread" or
"Facility  Fee  Percentage",  as the case may be,  based  upon the  Consolidated
Leverage Ratio as of the relevant date of  determination;  provided that,  until
delivery  of Terex's  financial  statements  pursuant  to Section  5.04(a)  with
respect to its fiscal year ended December 31, 1997,  the  Applicable  Percentage
shall be deemed to be in Category 3:




                                                               ABR
                            Eurocurrency                      Spread--
                              Spread--                       Tranche A
                           Tranche A Term   Eurocurrency    Term Loans                     ABR
Consolidated                 Loans and         Spread--        and           ABR--       Spread--
Leverage Ratio               Revolving        Tranche B     Revolving     A/C Fronted   Tranche B   Facility Fee
                               Loans         Term Loans       Loans       Loan Spread   Term Loans   Percentage
Category 1
                                                                                       
Greater than or equal          2.00%           3.00%         1.00%         1.00%        2.00%        0.5000%
to 5.25 to 1.00

Category 2

Greater than or equal          1.75%           2.75%         0.75%         0.75%        1.75%        0.5000%
to 4.75 to 1.00 but less
than 5.25 to 1.00

Category 3

Greater than or equal          1.50%           2.50%         0.50%         0.50%        1.50%        0.5000%
to 4.00 to 1.00 but less
than 4.75 to 1.00

Category 4

Greater than or equal          1.25%           2.50%         0.25%         0.25%        1.50%        0.5000%
to 3.50 to 1.00 but less
than 4.00 to 1.00

Category 5

Greater than or equal          1.125%          2.50%         0.125%       0.125%        1.50%        0.375%
to 3.00 to 1.00 but less
than 3.50 to 1.00

Category 6                     0.875%          2.25%        -0.125%       0.000%        1.25%        0.375%

Less than 3.00 to 1.00


Each  change  in  the  Applicable  Percentage  resulting  from a  change  in the
Consolidated  Leverage  Ratio  shall be  effective  with  respect  to all Loans,
Commitments and Letters of Credit on the date of delivery to the  Administrative
Agent of the financial  statements and certificates  required by Section 5.04(a)
or (b) based upon the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most


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recent fiscal quarter  included in such financial  statements so delivered,  and
shall remain in effect  until the date  immediately  preceding  the next date of
delivery of such financial  statements and certificates  indicating another such
change.  Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,  at any time after the  occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default,  the Consolidated  Leverage Ratio
shall be deemed to be in Category 1 for purposes of  determining  the Applicable
Percentage.

         "Asset Sale" shall mean the sale, transfer or other disposition (by way
of merger or  otherwise  and  including by way of a Sale and  Leaseback)  by any
Borrower  or any  Subsidiary  to any  person  other  than  any  Borrower  or any
Guarantor  of (a) any capital  stock of any  Subsidiary  (other than  directors'
qualifying  shares) or (b) any other  assets of any  Borrower or any  Subsidiary
(other than  inventory,  excess,  damaged,  obsolete or worn out assets,  scrap,
Permitted  Investments and accounts receivable,  in each case disposed of in the
ordinary course of business and, in the case of accounts receivable,  consistent
with past  practice);  provided  that any asset sale or series of related  asset
sales  described in clause (b) above having a value not in excess of  $1,000,000
shall be deemed not to be an "Asset Sale" for purposes of this Agreement.

         "Assignment  and  Acceptance"  shall mean an assignment  and acceptance
entered  into by a Lender and an assignee,  and  accepted by the  Administrative
Agent,  in the form of Exhibit B or such other form as shall be  approved by the
Administrative Agent.

         "Australian   Dollars"  shall  mean  dollars  in  lawful   currency  of
Australia.

         "Australian  Fronting  Lender"  shall mean Credit  Suisse First Boston,
acting through its Sydney office branch,  and its successors and assigns in such
capacity.

         "Bank Bill Rate" shall mean, in relation to an Interest  Period for any
A/C  Fronted  Fixed  Rate  Loan  denominated  in  Australian  Dollars,  the rate
determined by the A/C Fronting Lender to be the average bid rate displayed at or
about 10:10 a.m.  (Sydney time) on the first day of such Interest  Period on the
Reuters screen BBSY page for a term equivalent to such Interest  Period.  If (a)
for any  reason  there  is no rate  displayed  for a period  equivalent  to such
Interest  Period or (b) the basis on which such rate is displayed is changed and
in the reasonable opinion of the A/C Fronting Lender such rate ceases to reflect
the A/C Fronting  Lender's  cost of funding to the same extent as at the date of
this Agreement,  then the Bank Bill Rate shall be the rate determined by the A/C
Fronting Lender to be the average of the buying rates quoted to the A/C Fronting
Lender by three  reference  banks  selected  by it at or about that time on that
date for bills of exchange that are accepted by an Australian bank and that have
a term equivalent to the Interest Period.  If there are no such buying rates the
rate shall be the rate  reasonably  determined by the A/C Fronting  Lender to be
its cost of funds.  Rates  will be  expressed  as a yield  percent  per annum to
maturity and rounded up, if necessary, to the nearest two decimal places.

         "Board" shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
of the United States of America.

         "Borrowers" shall mean, collectively, Terex, the Scottish Borrower, the
French Borrower,  the Australian  Borrower,  the Italian Borrower and, after its
accession to this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.19, the German Borrower.


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         "Borrowing"  shall  mean a group of Loans of a single  Type made by the
Lenders on a single date and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

         "Borrowing  Request" shall mean a request by any Borrower in accordance
with the terms of Section 2.03 and substantially in the form of Exhibit C.

         "Business Day" shall mean any day other than a Saturday,  Sunday or day
on which  banks in New York City are  authorized  or  required  by law to close;
provided,  however,  that when used in connection with a Eurocurrency  Loan, the
term  "Business  Day" shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for
dealings in dollar deposits in the London  interbank  market,  and, when used in
connection with any Calculation Date or determining any date on which any amount
is to be paid or made available in an Alternative  Currency,  the term "Business
Day" shall also exclude any day on which  commercial  banks and foreign exchange
markets  are not open for  business  in the  principal  financial  center in the
country of such Alternative Currency.

         "Calculation  Date"  shall  mean  (a)  the  date  of  delivery  of each
Borrowing  Request,  (b) the date of issuance  of any Letter of Credit,  (c) the
date of conversion or continuation of any Borrowing  pursuant to Section 2.10 or
(d) such additional  dates as the  Administrative  Agent or the Required Lenders
shall specify.

         "Capital Lease Obligations" of any person shall mean the obligations of
such  person  to pay  rent  or  other  amounts  under  any  lease  of (or  other
arrangement  conveying  the  right  to use)  real  or  personal  property,  or a
combination  thereof,  which  obligations  are  required  to be  classified  and
accounted  for as capital  leases on a balance  sheet of such person under GAAP,
and the  amount of such  obligations  shall be the  capitalized  amount  thereof
determined in accordance with GAAP.

         "Casualty"  shall  have  the  meaning  assigned  to  such  term  in the
Mortgages.

         "Casualty Proceeds" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
Mortgages.

         A "Change  in  Control"  shall be deemed  to have  occurred  if (a) any
person or group (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 as in  effect on the date  hereof)  shall own  directly  or  indirectly,
beneficially or of record,  shares  representing  more than 30% of the aggregate
ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding capital stock of
Terex;  (b) a majority of the seats  (other  than vacant  seats) on the board of
directors of Terex shall at any time be occupied by persons who were neither (i)
nominated by the board of directors of Terex, nor (ii) appointed by directors so
nominated;  (c) any change in control (or similar  event,  however  denominated)
with  respect  to Terex or any of its  Subsidiaries  shall  occur  under  and as
defined  in  any  indenture  or  agreement  in  respect  of  Indebtedness  in an
outstanding  principal  amount in excess of  $5,000,000 to which Terex or any of
its Subsidiaries is a party; or (d) any person or group shall otherwise directly
or indirectly Control Terex.

         "Closing Date" shall mean the date of the first Credit Event.

         "Code"  shall mean the Internal  Revenue Code of 1986,  as amended from
time to time.


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         "Collateral" shall mean all the "Collateral" as defined in any Security
Document and shall also include the Mortgaged  Properties.  Notwithstanding  any
contrary provision contained herein,  until such time as the condition described
in Section 5.11(c) has been satisfied,  the term "Collateral"  shall not include
any inventory or parts therefor of the Company which was manufactured or sold by
Fiatallis Latino American, Ltda, Fiat-Hitachi Excavators,  S.p.A or any of their
subsidiaries or affiliated  companies or inventory or parts therefor which bears
the  tradename  "Fiatallis",  and  any  proceeds  therefrom,  including  without
limitation  accounts,  contract  rights,  chattel paper and general  intangibles
generated in any manner from the sale, lease  demonstration or other disposition
of the inventory or parts therefor (collectively, the "Fiat Collateral").

         "Commitment"  shall mean,  with  respect to any Lender,  such  Lender's
Revolving Credit Commitment, Term Loan Commitments,  A/C Fronting Commitment and
Swingline Commitment.

         "Condemnation"  shall  have the  meaning  assigned  to such term in the
Mortgages.

         "Condemnation Proceeds" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the Mortgages.

         "Confidential  Information  Memorandum"  shall  mean  the  Confidential
Information Memorandum of the Borrowers dated February 1998.

         "Consent  Solicitation" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the preamble to this Agreement.

         "Consolidated  Capital  Expenditures"  shall mean, for any period,  the
aggregate of all  expenditures  (whether paid in cash or other  consideration or
accrued as a liability) by Terex or any of its  Subsidiaries  during such period
that,  in  accordance  with GAAP,  are or should be  included in  "additions  to
property,  plant and equipment" or similar items  reflected in the  consolidated
statement of cash flows of Terex and the Subsidiaries for such period (including
the amount of assets leased by incurring any Capital Lease Obligation); provided
that expenditures for Permitted  Acquisitions shall not constitute  Consolidated
Capital Expenditures.

         "Consolidated   Current   Assets"   shall  mean,  as  of  any  date  of
determination,  the total assets that would  properly be  classified  as current
assets (other than cash and cash  equivalents) of Terex and its  Subsidiaries as
of such date, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

         "Consolidated  Current  Liabilities"  shall  mean,  as of any  date  of
determination,  the total liabilities (other than, without duplication,  (a) the
current portion of long-term  Indebtedness and (b) outstanding  Revolving Loans,
A/C Fronted  Loans and  Swingline  Loans) that would  properly be  classified as
current liabilities of Terex and its Subsidiaries as of such date, determined on
a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

         "Consolidated  EBITDA"  shall mean,  for any period,  Consolidated  Net
Income for such period,  plus,  without  duplication  and to the extent deducted
from revenues in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of
(a) the aggregate amount of Consolidated  Interest Expense for such period,  (b)
the aggregate amount of letter of credit fees paid during such period, (c) the


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aggregate  amount of income and franchise  tax expense for such period,  (d) all
amounts  attributable to depreciation and amortization for such period,  (e) all
non-recurring   non-cash  charges  during  such  period  and  (f)  all  non-cash
adjustments  made to translate  foreign  assets and  liabilities  for changes in
foreign  exchange rates made in accordance with FASB No. 52, and minus,  without
duplication and to the extent added to revenues in determining  Consolidated Net
Income for such period, (i) all non-recurring  non-cash gains during such period
and  (ii)  all  non-cash  adjustments  made  to  translate  foreign  assets  and
liabilities  for changes in foreign  exchange rates made in accordance with FASB
No. 52, all as determined on a consolidated  basis with respect to Terex and the
Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.

         "Consolidated  Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" shall mean, for any period,
the ratio of (a)  Consolidated  EBITDA for such  period to (b) the sum,  without
duplication,  of (i) Consolidated  Interest Expense for such period; (ii) income
or  franchise  taxes  paid in cash  during  such  period;  (iii)  scheduled  and
voluntary payments of principal with respect to all Indebtedness  (including the
principal  portion of Capital  Lease  Obligations  but  excluding  payments  for
inventory  to be sold in the  ordinary  course  of  business)  of Terex  and its
Subsidiaries  on a consolidated  basis during such period (other than repayments
of Indebtedness  (x) pursuant to the Refinancing on or prior to the Closing Date
or (y)  with  the  proceeds  of  other  Indebtedness  permitted  to be  incurred
hereunder or equity);  (iv) payments  permitted pursuant to Section 6.06 made in
cash during such period; and (v) Consolidated  Capital Expenditures made in cash
during such period.

         "Consolidated  Interest Coverage Ratio" shall mean, for any period, the
ratio of (a) Consolidated  EBITDA for such period to (b)  Consolidated  Interest
Expense for such period.

         "Consolidated  Interest  Expense" of Terex and its  Subsidiaries  shall
mean, for any period,  interest  expense of Terex and its  Subsidiaries for such
period,  net of interest income,  included in the  determination of Consolidated
Net Income. For purposes of the foregoing,  interest expense shall be determined
after  giving  effect  to any net  payments  made or  received  by Terex and its
Subsidiaries under Interest Rate Protection Agreements.

         "Consolidated   Leverage   Ratio"  shall  mean,   as  of  any  date  of
determination,  the ratio of (a)  Total  Debt on such date to (b) the sum of (i)
Consolidated  EBITDA  for the most  recent  period  of four  consecutive  fiscal
quarters  ended  on or prior to such  date  and (ii) the Pro  Forma  Acquisition
EBITDA of all Acquired  Persons  acquired during such period of four consecutive
fiscal quarters.  For purposes of calculating the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as
of any date,  if any  portion  of the  Total  Debt  outstanding  on such date is
denominated  in a currency  other than  dollars,  then the  portion,  if any, of
Consolidated  EBITDA or Pro Forma  Acquisition  EBITDA during the period of four
consecutive  fiscal  quarters ending on or prior to such date and denominated in
any such other  currency  shall be translated to dollars using the same exchange
rate as is used to translate such portion of the Total Debt  denominated in such
other currency.

         "Consolidated  Net Income" shall mean,  for any period,  the sum of net
income (or loss) for such period of Terex and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis  determined in accordance  with GAAP,  but  excluding:  (a) the income (or
loss) of any person accrued prior to the date it became a Subsidiary of Terex or
is merged into or  consolidated  with Terex or such person's assets are acquired
by Terex or any of its Subsidiaries;  (b) non-recurring gains (or losses) during
such period; (c) extraordinary gains (or losses), as defined under GAAP during


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such  period;  and (d) the  income  of any  Subsidiary  to the  extent  that the
declaration or payment of dividends or similar  distributions  by the Subsidiary
of that income is  prohibited  by  operation  of the terms of its charter or any
agreement,   instrument,   judgment,   decree,  statute,  rule  or  governmental
regulation applicable to the Subsidiary.

         "Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio" shall mean, as of any date
of determination, the ratio of (a) Total Senior Secured Debt on such date to (b)
the  sum of  (i)  Consolidated  EBITDA  for  the  most  recent  period  of  four
consecutive  fiscal  quarters  ended on or  prior to such  date and (ii) the Pro
Forma Acquisition  EBITDA of all Acquired Persons acquired during such period of
four consecutive  fiscal quarters.  For purposes of calculating the Consolidated
Senior Secured Leverage Ratio as of any date, if any portion of the Total Senior
Secured Debt  outstanding  on such date is  denominated in a currency other than
dollars,  then  the  portion,  if  any,  of  Consolidated  EBITDA  or Pro  Forma
Acquisition  EBITDA during the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending
on or prior to such date and  denominated  in any such other  currency  shall be
translated to dollars using the same exchange rate as is used to translate  such
portion of the Total Debt denominated in such other currency.

         "Control"  shall mean the  possession,  directly or indirectly,  of the
power to  direct or cause the  direction  of the  management  or  policies  of a
person,  whether  through the  ownership  of voting  securities,  by contract or
otherwise,  and the terms  "Controlling"  and  "Controlled"  shall have meanings
correlative thereto.

         "Credit Event" shall have the meaning  assigned to such term in Section
4.01.

         "Debt Tender Offer" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.

         "Default" shall mean any event or condition which upon notice, lapse of
time or both would constitute an Event of Default.

         "Dollar Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Dollar Loans.

         "Dollar  Equivalent"  shall mean,  on any date of  determination,  with
respect to any amount  denominated  in any  currency  other  than  dollars,  the
equivalent  in dollars of such amount,  determined by the  Administrative  Agent
pursuant to Section 1.03 using the applicable Exchange Rate with respect to such
currency at the time in effect.

         "Dollar Loan" shall mean a Dollar Revolving Loan or a Dollar Term Loan.

         "Dollar  Revolving  Loan" shall mean a Revolving  Loan  denominated  in
dollars and made pursuant to Section 2.01.

         Dollar Term Loan" shall mean a Term Loan  denominated in dollars.  Each
Dollar Term Loan shall be either a Eurocurrency Term Loan or an ABR Term Loan.

         "dollars"  or "$"  shall  mean  lawful  money of the  United  States of
America.

         "Domestic  Subsidiaries"  shall mean all  Subsidiaries  incorporated or
organized  under the laws of the United States of America,  any State thereof or
the District of Columbia.


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         "environment"  shall mean ambient air,  surface  water and  groundwater
(including  potable water,  navigable  water and wetlands),  the land surface or
subsurface  strata,  the workplace or as otherwise  defined in any Environmental
Law.

         "Environmental  Claim" shall mean any written  accusation,  allegation,
notice of violation,  claim, demand, order,  directive,  cost recovery action or
other  cause of action by, or on behalf of, any  Governmental  Authority  or any
person for damages,  injunctive or equitable relief,  personal injury (including
sickness,  disease or death),  Remedial  Action  costs,  tangible or  intangible
property damage,  natural resource  damages,  nuisance,  pollution,  any adverse
effect  on the  environment  caused by any  Hazardous  Material,  or for  fines,
penalties or  restrictions,  resulting from or based upon (a) the existence,  or
the continuation of the existence, of a Release (including sudden or non-sudden,
accidental or non-accidental  Releases), (b) exposure to any Hazardous Material,
(c) the presence, use, handling, transportation,  storage, treatment or disposal
of any  Hazardous  Material or (d) the  violation  or alleged  violation  of any
Environmental Law or Environmental Permit.

         "Environmental  Law"  shall  mean any and all  applicable  present  and
future treaties, laws, rules, regulations,  codes, ordinances,  orders, decrees,
judgments,  injunctions,  notices or binding agreements  issued,  promulgated or
entered into by or with any Governmental  Authority,  relating in any way to the
environment,  preservation or reclamation of natural resources,  the management,
Release or threatened  Release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety
matters,  including the Comprehensive  Environmental Response,  Compensation and
Liability   Act  of  1980,   as  amended  by  the   Superfund   Amendments   and
Reauthorization  Act of  1986,  42  U.S.C.  ss.ss.  9601 et  seq.  (collectively
"CERCLA"), the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act of 1976 and  Hazardous  and Solid Waste  Amendments of 1984, 42
U.S.C.  Section.  6901 et seq.,  the Federal  Water  Pollution  Control  Act, as
amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977,  33 U.S.C.  Section.  1251 et seq., the
Clean Air Act of 1970,  as amended 42 U.S.C.  Section.  7401 et seq., the Toxic
Substances  Control  Act  of  1976,  15  U.S.C.   Section.  2601  et  seq., the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, as amended, 29 U.S.C.  Section. 651
et seq.,  the  Emergency  Planning and Community  Right-to-Know  Act of 1986, 42
U.S.C. Section.  11001 et seq., the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, as amended,
42 U.S.C. Section.  300(f) et seq., the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act,
49 U.S.C.  Section. 5101 et seq., and any similar or implementing state or local
law, and all amendments or regulations promulgated under any of the foregoing.

         "Environmental Permit" shall mean any permit, approval,  authorization,
certificate,  license,  variance,  filing or permission  required by or from any
Governmental Authority pursuant to any Environmental Law.

         "Equity  Issuance"  shall mean any  issuance or sale by any Borrower or
any Subsidiary of any shares of capital stock or other equity  securities of any
such person or any obligations  convertible into or exchangeable  for, or giving
any  person a right,  option or  warrant  to  acquire  such  securities  or such
convertible  or  exchangeable  obligations,  except  in  each  case  for (a) any
issuance  or  sale to any  Borrower  or any  Subsidiary,  (b)  any  issuance  of
directors'  qualifying  shares,  (c)  sales  or  issuances  of  common  stock to
management  or employees of any  Borrower or any  Subsidiary  under any employee
stock option plan, stock purchase plan,  retirement plan, deferred  compensation
plan or other employee benefit plan in existence from time to time to the extent
that (i) the proceeds from all sales and issuances  described in this clause (c)
shall not exceed in the  aggregate  $1,000,000  in any fiscal  year of Terex and


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(ii) the shares of common  stock  issued  pursuant  to this clause (c) shall not
exceed  10% of the  common  stock  of  such  Borrower  or  such  Subsidiary,  as
applicable.

         "ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as the same may be amended from time to time.

         "ERISA  Affiliate"  shall mean any trade or  business  (whether  or not
incorporated)  that,  together with Terex, is treated as a single employer under
Section  414(b) or (c) of the Code,  or solely for  purposes  of Section  302 of
ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section
414 of the Code.

         "ERISA  Event"  shall mean (a) any  "reportable  event",  as defined in
Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations  issued  thereunder,  with respect to a
Plan;  (b) the  adoption  of any  amendment  to a Plan that  would  require  the
provision of security pursuant to Section  401(a)(29) of the Code or Section 307
of ERISA; (c) the existence with respect to any Plan of an "accumulated  funding
deficiency"  (as  defined in Section  412 of the Code or Section  302 of ERISA),
whether or not waived;  (d) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or
Section  303(d) of ERISA of an application  for a waiver of the minimum  funding
standard with respect to any Plan;  (e) the  incurrence  of any liability  under
Title IV of ERISA with respect to the  termination of any Plan or the withdrawal
or partial  withdrawal of Terex or any of its ERISA  Affiliates from any Plan or
Multiemployer  Plan;  (f) the receipt by Terex or any ERISA  Affiliate  from the
PBGC  or a plan  administrator  of any  notice  relating  to  the  intention  to
terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer  any Plan; (g)
the  receipt  by Terex or any  ERISA  Affiliate  of any  notice  concerning  the
imposition of Withdrawal  Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan
is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization,  within the meaning of
Title IV of ERISA; (h) the occurrence of a "prohibited transaction" with respect
to which Terex or any of its Subsidiaries is a "disqualified person" (within the
meaning of Section  4975 of the Code) or with respect to which Terex or any such
Subsidiary  could  otherwise be liable;  (i) any other event or  condition  with
respect to a Plan or  Multiemployer  Plan that could  reasonably  be expected to
result in liability of any Borrower; and (j) any Foreign Benefit Event.

         "Eurocurrency   Borrowing"   shall  mean  a  Borrowing   comprised   of
Eurocurrency Loans.

         "Eurocurrency  Loan"  shall  mean any  Eurocurrency  Revolving  Loan or
Eurocurrency Term Loan.

         "Eurocurrency  Revolving Borrowing" shall mean a Eurocurrency Borrowing
comprised of Eurocurrency Revolving Loans.

         "Eurocurrency  Revolving  Loan" shall mean any  Revolving  Loan bearing
interest  at a rate  determined  by  reference  to the  Adjusted  LIBO  Rate  in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.

         "Eurocurrency  Term  Borrowing"  shall mean a  Borrowing  comprised  of
Eurocurrency Term Loans.

         "Eurocurrency  Term Loan"  shall mean any  Eurocurrency  Tranche A Term
Loan or Eurocurrency Tranche B Term Loan.


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         "Eurocurrency  Tranche A Term Loan" shall meany any Tranche A Term Loan
bearing  interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.

         "Eurocurrency  Tranche B Term Loan"  shall mean any Tranche B Term Loan
bearing  interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.

         "Event of  Default"  shall have the  meaning  assigned  to such term in
Article VII.

         "Excess Cash Flow" shall mean, for any fiscal year of Terex, the excess
of (a) the sum, without duplication,  of (i) Consolidated EBITDA for such fiscal
year,  (ii)  extraordinary  or  non-recurring  cash  receipts  of Terex  and its
Subsidiaries,  if any,  during such fiscal year and not included in Consolidated
EBITDA  and  (iii)  reductions  to  non-cash  working  capital  of Terex and its
Subsidiaries for such fiscal year (i.e.,  the decrease,  if any, in Consolidated
Current Assets minus Consolidated  Current Liabilities from the beginning to the
end of such fiscal  year),  over (b) the sum,  without  duplication,  of (i) the
amount of any cash  income  taxes  payable  by Terex and its  Subsidiaries  with
respect  to  such  fiscal  year,  (ii)  cash  interest  paid  by  Terex  and its
Subsidiaries  during such fiscal year, (iii) Consolidated  Capital  Expenditures
committed  or made in cash in  accordance  with  Section 6.10 during such fiscal
year (and not deducted from Excess Cash Flow in any prior year),  (iv) scheduled
principal  repayments of Indebtedness made by Terex and its Subsidiaries  during
such fiscal year,  (v) optional and  mandatory  prepayments  of the principal of
Term Loans and  reductions of Revolving  Credit  Commitments  during such fiscal
year, but only to the extent that such  prepayments  and reductions do not occur
in  connection  with a  refinancing  of all or any  portion of the  Loans,  (vi)
extraordinary or non-recurring expenses and losses to the extent paid in cash by
Terex and its Subsidiaries,  if any, during such fiscal year and not included in
Consolidated  EBITDA and (vii)  additions to non-cash  working  capital for such
fiscal year (i.e.,  the increase,  if any, in Consolidated  Current Assets minus
Consolidated  Current  Liabilities  from the beginning to the end of such Fiscal
Year);  provided that, to the extent otherwise  included  therein,  the Net Cash
Proceeds  of  Asset  Sales  and  Equity  Issuances  shall be  excluded  from the
calculation of Excess Cash Flow.

         "Exchange  Rate" shall mean,  on any day,  with respect to any currency
other than dollars (for purposes of  determining  the Dollar  Equivalent) or any
Alternative  Currency  (for purposes of  determining  the  Alternative  Currency
Equivalent with respect to such  Alternative  Currency),  the rate at which such
currency may be exchanged into dollars or the applicable  Alternative  Currency,
as the case may be,  as set forth at  approximately  11:00  a.m.,  New York City
time, on such date on the applicable Bloomberg Key Cross Currency Rates Page. In
the event that any such rate does not appear on any Bloomberg Key Cross Currency
Rates Page,  the Exchange  Rate shall be  determined  by reference to such other
publicly  available  service  for  displaying  exchange  rates  selected  by the
Administrative   Agent  for  such  purpose,   or,  at  the   discretion  of  the
Administrative Agent, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average
of the spot rates of exchange of the  Administrative  Agent in the market  where
its foreign  currency  exchange  operations in respect of such currency are then
being  conducted,  at or about  10:00  a.m.,  local  time,  on such date for the
purchase of dollars or the applicable  Alternative Currency, as the case may be,
for delivery two Business Days later;  provided that, if at the time of any such
determination,  for  any  reason,  no  such  spot  rate  is  being  quoted,  the
Administrative Agent may use any other reasonable method it deems appropriate


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to determine such rate, and such determination  shall be presumed correct absent
manifest error.

         "Existing  Credit  Agreement" shall mean the Revolving Credit Agreement
dated as of April 7, 1997,  among Terex, the  Subsidiaries  listed therein,  the
lenders party thereto and BankBoston, N.A., as agent.

         "Existing Issuing Bank" shall mean BankBoston, N.A.

         "Existing  Letter of Credit"  shall mean each  letter of credit that is
(a) issued by an Existing  Issuing Bank, (b) outstanding on the Closing Date and
(c) listed in Schedule 1.01(d).

         "Existing Note Indenture"  shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in the preamble to this Agreement.

         "Existing  Notes"  shall have the meaning  assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.

         "Facility Fee" shall have the meaning  assigned to such term in Section
2.05(a).

         "Fee Letter" shall mean the Fee Letter dated January 30, 1998,  between
Terex and the Administrative Agent.

         "Fees" shall mean the Facility Fees, the  Administrative  Agent's Fees,
the A/C Participation  Fees, the A/C Fronting Fees, the L/C  Participation  Fees
and the Issuing Bank Fees.

         "Financial  Officer" of any corporation  shall mean the chief financial
officer, a Vice  President-Finance,  principal accounting officer,  Treasurer or
Controller of such corporation.

         "Floor  Plan  Guarantees"  shall  mean  Guarantees  (including  but not
limited to  repurchase  or  remarketing  obligations)  by Terex or a  Subsidiary
incurred in the ordinary  course of business  consistent  with past  practice of
Indebtedness  incurred by a franchise dealer, or other purchaser or lessor,  for
the purchase of inventory  manufactured  or sold by Terex or a  Subsidiary,  the
proceeds of which  Indebtedness is used solely to pay the purchase price of such
inventory to such franchise  dealer or other purchaser or lessor and any related
reasonable fees and expenses (including financing fees); provided, however, that
(a) to the extent  commercially  practicable,  the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is
secured by a perfected  first  priority  Lien on such  inventory in favor of the
holder of such  Indebtedness  and (b) if Terex or such Subsidiary is required to
make payment with respect to such Guarantee,  Terex or such Subsidiary will have
the right to receive either (i) title to such inventory, (ii) a valid assignment
of a perfected  first  priority Lien in such inventory or (iii) the net proceeds
of any resale of such inventory.

         "Foreign  Base Rate  Loans"  shall mean Loans  (other  than A/C Fronted
Loans) in any Alternative  Currency the rate of interest  applicable to which is
based upon the rate of interest per annum maintained by the Administrative Agent
as the rate of interest (in the absence of a eurocurrency rate) determined by it
with the approval of a majority in interest of the Lenders participating in such
Loan to be the average rate charged to borrowers of similar quality as the


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applicable Borrower of such Loans in such Alternative Currency.  Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary  contained  herein,  Loans may be made or maintained as
Foreign Base Rate Loans only to the extent specified in Section 2.02(f), 2.08 or
2.15.

         "Foreign Benefit Event" shall mean, with respect to any Foreign Pension
Plan,  (a) the  existence  of  unfunded  liabilities  in  excess  of the  amount
permitted  under any  applicable  law,  or in excess of the amount that would be
permitted absent a waiver from a Governmental Authority, (b) the failure to make
the required  contributions or payments,  under any applicable law, on or before
the due date for such contributions or payments,  (c) the receipt of a notice by
a Governmental Authority relating to the intention to terminate any such Foreign
Pension Plan or to appoint a trustee or similar  official to administer any such
Foreign  Pension  Plan, or alleging the  insolvency of any such Foreign  Pension
Plan and (d) the  incurrence of any  liability in excess of  $5,000,000  (or the
Dollar  Equivalent  thereof  in  another  currency)  by  Terex  or  any  of  its
Subsidiaries  under  applicable  law on  account  of  the  complete  or  partial
termination of such Foreign  Pension Plan or the complete or partial  withdrawal
of any participating  employer therein, or (e) the occurrence of any transaction
that is prohibited  under any applicable law and could reasonably be expected to
result in the  incurrence of any liability by Terex or any of its  Subsidiaries,
or the imposition on Terex or any of its Subsidiaries of any fine, excise tax or
penalty resulting from any  noncompliance  with any applicable law, in each case
in excess of $5,000,000 (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof in another currency).

         "Foreign  Pension  Plan"  shall  mean  any  benefit  plan  which  under
applicable law is required to be funded through a trust or other funding vehicle
other than a trust or funding vehicle  maintained  exclusively by a Governmental
Authority.

         "Foreign  Subsidiary"  shall mean any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic
Subsidiary.

         "Francs" and "Ffr" shall mean francs in lawful currency of the Republic
of France.

         "GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in effect in
the United States applied on a consistent basis.

         "German  Borrower"  shall  mean  O&K  Mining,  but only  following  the
consummation  of the  Acquisition  and the  accession  to this  Agreement by O&K
Mining pursuant to Section 9.19.

         "Governmental Authority" shall mean the government of the United States
of America, the United Kingdom,  Germany,  France, Italy,  Australia,  any other
nation or any political  subdivision  thereof,  whether state or local,  and any
agency,  authority,  instrumentality,  regulatory body,  court,  central bank or
other entity exercising executive, legislative,  judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

         "Guarantee" of or by any person shall mean any  obligation,  contingent
or  otherwise,  of such person  guaranteeing  or having the  economic  effect of
guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other person (the "primary obligor") in any
manner,  whether  directly or  indirectly,  and including any obligation of such
person,  direct or indirect,  (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds
for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or to purchase (or to advance


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or supply  funds for the  purchase  of) any  security  for the  payment  of such
Indebtedness,  (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the
purpose  of  assuring  the owner of such  Indebtedness  of the  payment  of such
Indebtedness  or (c) to maintain  working  capital,  equity capital or any other
financial  statement  condition  or  liquidity  of the primary  obligor so as to
enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness; provided, however, that the
term "Guarantee" shall not include (i) endorsements for collection or deposit in
the  ordinary  course of business and (ii) Floor Plan  Guarantees  except to the
extent that they appear as debt on the Borrower's balance sheet.

         "Guarantee  Agreements" shall mean the Subsidiary  Guarantee  Agreement
and the Terex Guarantee Agreement.

         "Guarantors" shall mean Terex and the Subsidiary Guarantors.

         "Hazardous   Materials"   shall  mean  all  explosive  or   radioactive
materials,  substances or wastes,  hazardous or toxic  materials,  substances or
wastes,  pollutants,  solid,  liquid or gaseous wastes,  including  petroleum or
petroleum    distillates,    asbestos   or   asbestos   containing    materials,
polychlorinated  biphenyls  ("PCBs") or  PCB-containing  materials or equipment,
radon gas,  infectious or medical  wastes and all other  substances or wastes of
any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

         "Hedging  Agreement" shall mean any Interest Rate Protection  Agreement
or any foreign currency exchange agreement, commodity price protection agreement
or  other  interest  or  currency  exchange  rate  or  commodity  price  hedging
arrangement not entered into for speculation.

         "Inactive  Subsidiary"  shall mean each  Subsidiary  of Terex listed on
Schedule  1.01(f) until such time as such  Subsidiary  shall become a Subsidiary
Guarantor.

         "Indebtedness" of any person shall mean, without  duplication,  (a) all
obligations  of such person for borrowed  money or advances of any kind, (b) all
obligations  of such person  evidenced  by bonds,  debentures,  notes or similar
instruments,  (c) all obligations of such person upon which interest charges are
customarily  paid, (d) all obligations of such person under  conditional sale or
other title  retention  agreements  relating to property or assets  purchased by
such  person,  (e) all  obligations  of such  person  issued or  assumed  as the
deferred  purchase  price of  property  or services  (excluding  trade  accounts
payable and accrued  obligations  incurred in the ordinary  course of business),
(f) all  Indebtedness  of others  secured  by (or for  which the  holder of such
Indebtedness has an existing right,  contingent or otherwise,  to be secured by)
any Lien on  property  owned or  acquired  by such  person,  whether  or not the
obligations secured thereby have been assumed, (g) all Guarantees by such person
of Indebtedness of others, (h) all Capital Lease Obligations of such person, (i)
all   obligations  of  such  person  in  respect  of  interest  rate  protection
agreements,  foreign currency exchange  agreements or other interest or exchange
rate hedging  arrangements  and (j) all obligations of such person as an account
party in respect of letters of credit and bankers' acceptances. The Indebtedness
of any person shall include the  Indebtedness  of any  partnership in which such
person is a general partner, to the extent such Indebtedness is recourse to such
person either expressly or by operation of law.


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         "Indemnity,  Subrogation  and  Contribution  Agreement"  shall mean the
Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement,  substantially in the form of
Exhibit D, among the  Borrowers,  the  Subsidiary  Guarantors and the Collateral
Agent.

         "Interest  Payment Date" shall mean, with respect to any Loan, the last
day of the Interest  Period  applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a
part and, in the case of a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing  with an Interest  Period of
more than three  months'  duration,  each day that  would have been an  Interest
Payment Date had  successive  Interest  Periods of three  months'  duration been
applicable to such  Borrowing,  and, in addition,  the date of any prepayment of
such  Borrowing or  conversion  of such  Borrowing to a Borrowing of a different
Type.

         "Interest Period" shall mean (a) as to any Eurocurrency Borrowing,  the
period  commencing on the date of such  Borrowing and ending on the  numerically
corresponding day (or, if there is no numerically corresponding day, on the last
day) in the calendar month that is 1, 2, 3 or 6 months  thereafter  (and, in the
case of an Alternative  Currency  Borrowing maturing or required to be repaid in
less than one month,  the date thereafter  requested by the applicable  Borrower
and agreed to by the  Administrative  Agent),  as the  applicable  Borrower  may
elect, (b) as to any ABR Borrowing or Borrowing bearing interest by reference to
the A/C Fronted Base Rate,  the period  commencing on the date of such Borrowing
and  ending  on the  earliest  of (i) the next  succeeding  March  31,  June 30,
September  30 or December  31, (ii) the  Revolving  Credit  Maturity  Date,  the
Tranche A Maturity Date or the Tranche B Maturity Date, as applicable, and (iii)
the date such  Borrowing  is  converted  to a Borrowing  of a different  Type in
accordance  with  Section 2.10 or repaid or prepaid in  accordance  with Section
2.11 or 2.12,  (c) as to any A/C  Fronted  Fixed Rate Loan  bearing  interest by
reference to the Bank Bill Rate, the period  commencing on the date of such Loan
and ending on the date (more than 7 but not more than 92 days thereafter) as the
Australian  Borrower  may  elect  and (d) as to any  A/C  Fronted  Loan  bearing
interest by reference to the Italian  Fixed Rate,  the period  commencing on the
date of such Loan and ending on the numerically  corresponding day (or, if there
is no numerically corresponding day, on the last day) in the calendar that is 1,
2 or 3 months thereafter, as the Italian Borrower may elect; provided,  however,
that if any Interest  Period would end on a day other than a Business  Day, such
Interest  Period  shall be extended to the next  succeeding  Business Day unless
such next  succeeding  Business Day would fall in the next  calendar  month,  in
which case such Interest  Period shall end on the next  preceding  Business Day.
Interest shall accrue from and including the first day of an Interest  Period to
but excluding the last day of such Interest Period.

         "Interest Rate Protection  Agreement" shall mean any interest rate swap
agreement,  interest  rate cap  agreement,  interest  rate collar  agreement  or
similar  agreement  or  arrangement  designed  to protect  any  Borrower  or any
Subsidiary  against  fluctuations  in interest  rates,  and not entered into for
speculation.

         "Issuing Bank" shall mean CSFB and BankBoston, N.A.

         "Issuing  Bank Fees"  shall have the  meaning  assigned to such term in
Section 2.05(c).

         "Italian  Facilities"  shall mean the credit  facilities of the Italian
Borrower  existing  on the  date of  this  agreement  with  Medio  Credito,  Min
Industria, PO MI, Carisp, Rolobanca, Banco Sicilia, First S. Paolo Torino,


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Credito Bergamasco, S. Geminiano, Banco Nazionale del Lavaro and Pop Emilia.

         "Italian Fixed Rate" shall mean,  with respect to any A/C Fronted Fixed
Rate  Loan  denominated  in Lire,  the  rate  per  annum  (rounded  upwards,  if
necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1% and adjusted for reserve requirements, if any)
determined by the Italian  Fronting Lender at  approximately  11:00 a.m. (London
time) on the date which is two  Business  Days prior to or the  beginning of the
relevant Interest Period (as specified in the applicable  Borrowing  Request) by
reference to page 3740 of the Telerate screen, or such other page as may replace
such rate as the Telerate screen which displays the British Bankers' Association
Interest  Settlement  Rates for  deposits  in Lire,  for a period  equal to such
Interest  Period;  provided  that,  to the extent that an  interest  rate is not
ascertainable  pursuant to the  foregoing  provisions  of this  definition,  the
"Italian  Fixed Rate" shall be the  interest  rate per annum  determined  by the
Italian  Fronting  Lender to be the  average  of the  rates  per annum  (rounded
upwards,  if  necessary,  to the  next  1/16  of 1%  and  adjusted  for  reserve
requirements,  if any) at which  deposits in Lire are offered for such  relevant
Interest Period to major banks in the London interbank market in London, England
by the Italian Fronting Lender at approximately  11:00 a.m. (London time) on the
date which is two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period.

         "Italian  Fronting  Lender"  shall  mean  BankBoston,   N.A.,  and  its
successors and assigns in such capacity.

         "Judgment  Currency"  shall have the  meaning  assigned to such term in
Section 9.16.

         "L/C  Commitment"  shall mean the  commitment  of each  Issuing Bank to
issue Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.23.

         "L/C  Disbursement"  shall  mean a payment or  disbursement  made by an
Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.

         "L/C  Exposure"  shall  mean at any time  the sum of (a) the  aggregate
undrawn amount of all  outstanding  Letters of Credit  denominated in dollars at
such time,  (b) the Dollar  Equivalent  of the aggregate  undrawn  amount of all
outstanding  Letters of Credit  denominated  in  Alternative  Currencies at such
time, (c) the aggregate  principal amount of all L/C Disbursements in respect of
Letters of Credit  denominated  in dollars that have not yet been  reimbursed at
such time and (d) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of all
L/C  Disbursements  in respect of Letters of Credit  denominated  in Alternative
Currencies  that have not yet been  reimbursed at such time. The L/C Exposure of
any Revolving  Credit  Lender at any time shall mean its Pro Rata  Percentage of
the total L/C Exposure at such time.

         "L/C Participation Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.05(c).

         "Lenders" shall mean (a) the financial  institutions listed on Schedule
2.01(a) (other than any such financial institution that has ceased to be a party
hereto  pursuant  to  an  Assignment  and  Acceptance)  and  (b)  any  financial
institution  that has  become  a party  hereto  pursuant  to an  Assignment  and
Acceptance.  Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,  the term "Lenders"
shall include the A/C Fronting Lenders and the Swingline Lender.


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         "Letter of Credit" shall mean (a) any letter of credit issued  pursuant
to Section 2.23 and (b) any Existing Letter of Credit.

         "LIBO Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing, the
rate per annum determined by the  Administrative  Agent at  approximately  11:00
a.m.  (London  time) on the date which is two  Business  Days prior to or,  with
respect to Eurocurrency Borrowings denominated in Pounds, at approximately 11:00
a.m.  (London time) on the same day as, the  beginning of the relevant  Interest
Period (as specified in the  applicable  Borrowing  Request) by reference to the
British Bankers'  Association  Interest Settlement Rates for deposits in dollars
or the relevant Alternative Currency, as applicable (as set forth by any service
selected by the  Administrative  Agent which has been  nominated  by the British
Bankers'  Association  as an  authorized  information  vendor for the purpose of
displaying  such rates),  for a period equal to such Interest  Period;  provided
that, to the extent that an interest rate is not  ascertainable  pursuant to the
foregoing  provisions of this definition,  the "LIBO Rate" shall be the interest
rate per annum determined by the  Administrative  Agent to be the average of the
rates  per  annum at which  deposits  in  dollars  or the  relevant  Alternative
Currency, as applicable,  are offered for such relevant Interest Period to major
banks in the London  interbank market in London,  England by the  Administrative
Agent at  approximately  11:00  a.m.  (London  time)  on the  date  which is two
Business Days prior to or, with respect to Eurocurrency  Borrowings  denominated
in Pounds,  at  approximately  11:00 a.m.  (London time) on the same day as, the
beginning of such Interest Period.

         "Lien" shall mean, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of
trust,  lien,  pledge,  encumbrance,  charge or security  interest in or on such
asset,  (b) the  interest  of a vendor or a lessor  under any  conditional  sale
agreement,  capital lease or title  retention  agreement (or any financing lease
having  substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating
to such asset and (c) in the case of securities,  any purchase  option,  call or
similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.

         "Lire" and "Lit" shall mean lire in lawful currency of Italy.

         "Loan Documents" shall mean this Agreement,  the Guarantee  Agreements,
the  Security   Documents  and  the  Indemnity,   Subrogation  and  Contribution
Agreement.

         "Loan Parties" shall mean the Borrowers and the Guarantors.

         "Loans" shall mean the Revolving Loans, the Term Loans, the A/C Fronted
Loans and the Swingline Loans.

         "Margin  Stock"  shall  have  the  meaning  assigned  to  such  term in
Regulation U.

         "Marks"  and "DM"  shall  mean  deutsche  marks in lawful  currency  of
Germany.

         "Material Adverse Effect" shall mean (a) a materially adverse effect on
the  business,  assets,  operations,   prospects  or  condition,   financial  or
otherwise,  of  Terex  and its  Subsidiaries,  taken as a  whole,  (b)  material
impairment of the ability of the Loan Parties to perform their obligations under
the Loan  Documents  or (c)  material  impairment  of the rights of or  benefits
available to the Lenders under any Loan Document.


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         "Mortgaged  Properties"  shall  mean  the  owned  real  properties  and
leasehold and subleasehold interests specified on Schedule 1.01(c).

         "Mortgages"  shall  mean  the  mortgages,  deeds  of  trust,  leasehold
mortgages,  assignments  of leases and rents,  modifications  and other security
documents  delivered  pursuant  to clause (i) of Section  4.02(j) or pursuant to
Section 5.11, each substantially in the form of Exhibit F.

         "Multiemployer Plan" shall mean a multiemployer plan as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.

         "Net Cash Proceeds"  shall mean (a) with respect to any Asset Sale, the
cash  proceeds  (including  cash  proceeds  subsequently  received  (as and when
received) in respect of non-cash consideration  initially received and including
all insurance settlements and condemnation awards in excess of $250,000 from any
single  event or series of  related  events),  net of (i)  transaction  expenses
(including reasonable broker's fees or commissions, legal fees, accounting fees,
investment banking fees and other professional fees,  transfer and similar taxes
and Terex's good faith  estimate of income  taxes paid or payable in  connection
with the receipt of such cash proceeds),  (ii) amounts provided as a reserve, in
accordance with GAAP, including pursuant to any escrow arrangement,  against any
liabilities  under any  indemnification  obligations  associated with such Asset
Sale (provided that, to the extent and at the time any such amounts are released
from such reserve,  such amounts shall  constitute Net Cash Proceeds),  (iii) in
the case of insurance  settlements and condemnation  awards,  amounts previously
paid by Terex and its Subsidiaries to replace or restore the affected  property,
and (iv) the principal  amount,  premium or penalty,  if any, interest and other
amounts on any  Indebtedness  for  borrowed  money which is secured by the asset
sold in such Asset Sale and is required to be repaid with such  proceeds  (other
than any such  Indebtedness  assumed by the purchaser of such asset);  provided,
however,  that,  with  respect  to the  proceeds  of any Asset Sale or series of
related  Asset  Sales in an amount of less than or equal to  $50,000,000  in the
aggregate,  if (A) Terex shall deliver a certificate  of a Financial  Officer to
the  Administrative  Agent at the time of receipt  thereof setting forth Terex's
intent to reinvest  such  proceeds in  productive  assets of a kind then used or
usable in the business of Terex and its Subsidiaries  within 300 days of receipt
of such  proceeds and (B) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
shall be continuing at the time of such  certificate  or at the proposed time of
the  application of such  proceeds,  such proceeds shall not constitute Net Cash
Proceeds except to the extent not so used at the end of such 300-day period,  at
which time such proceeds shall be deemed to be Net Cash  Proceeds,  and (b) with
respect  to any  Equity  Issuance  or  any  other  issuance  or  disposition  of
Indebtedness,  the cash proceeds  thereof,  net of all taxes and customary fees,
commissions,  costs and other expenses  (including  reasonable  broker's fees or
commissions,  legal fees,  accounting  fees,  investment  banking fees and other
professional  fees, and  underwriter's  discounts and  commissions)  incurred in
connection therewith.

         "O&K Mining" shall mean O&K Mining GmbH, a company  organized under the
laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.

         "Obligations"  shall mean all obligations  defined as  "Obligations" in
any of the Guarantee Agreements and the Security Documents.


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         "Payment  Location"  shall  mean an  office,  branch or other  place of
business of any Borrower.

         "PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty  Corporation referred to
and defined in ERISA.

         "Perfection   Certificate"   shall  mean  the  Perfection   Certificate
substantially in the form of Annex 2 to the Security Agreement.

         "Permitted  Acquisitions" shall mean acquisitions of not less than 100%
(other than directors'  qualifying  shares) of the outstanding  capital stock or
other  equity  interests  of any  corporation,  partnership,  a division  of any
corporation  or any similar  business unit (or of all or  substantially  all the
assets and business of any of the  foregoing)  engaged in a Related  Business so
long as (a) in the  case of each  such  acquisition  of  capital  stock or other
equity  interests,  such  acquisition was not preceded by an unsolicited  tender
offer for such capital  stock or other  equity  interests by Terex or any of its
Affiliates,  (b)  Terex  shall  have  delivered  to the  Administrative  Agent a
certificate  certifying that at the time of and immediately  after giving effect
to such  acquisition,  no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing,  and (c) either  (i) the total  consideration  with  respect to such
acquisition shall not exceed $2,500,000,  (ii) Terex shall have delivered to the
Administrative  Agent  a  certificate   certifying  that  at  the  time  of  and
immediately after giving effect to such  acquisition,  the Pro Forma Acquisition
EBITDA of the entity acquired  pursuant to such acquisition shall not exceed 25%
of the sum of such Pro Forma  Acquisition  EBITDA plus  Consolidated  EBITDA, in
each case for the period of four  fiscal  quarters  ended on the last day of the
most recent fiscal quarter ended prior to the date of such  acquisition or (iii)
(A)  Terex  shall  have  delivered  to the  Administrative  Agent a  certificate
certifying  that at the time of and  immediately  after  giving  effect  to such
acquisition,  the ratio of (1) the Total Debt of Terex and its  Subsidiaries  on
the date of such acquisition  (including all Indebtedness incurred in connection
with or resulting from such acquisition that would constitute Total Debt) to (2)
the sum of (x) Pro Forma  Acquisition  EBITDA of the entity acquired pursuant to
such  acquisition,  (y) Pro Forma  Acquisition  EBITDA  for all  other  Acquired
Persons  acquired  during the period of four  consecutive  fiscal  quarters most
recently  ended  prior  to the  date of such  acquisition  and (z)  Consolidated
EBITDA,  in each case for the period of four fiscal quarters most recently ended
prior to the date of such acquisition,  shall be at least 0.15 to 1.00 less than
the Consolidated  Leverage Ratio required  pursuant to Section 6.11 on such date
and  (B)  such  corporation,  partnership,  division,  business  or  assets,  as
applicable, are located in the United States (or the principal place of business
with respect thereto and  substantially all of the applicable assets are located
in the United  States) or in any country  included  on Schedule  1.01(e) or on a
list approved by the Required Lenders prior to the date of such acquisition. For
purposes of  determining  compliance  with clause  (c)(i)  above,  the principal
amount of  Indebtedness  assumed  in  connection  with an  acquisition  shall be
included in calculating the consideration therefor.

         "Permitted Investments" shall mean:

                  (a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and
         interest on which are unconditionally  guaranteed by, the United States
         of America (or by any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are
         backed by the full faith and credit of the United  States of  America),
         in each case  maturing  within  one year  from the date of  acquisition
         thereof;


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                  (b)  investments in commercial  paper maturing within 270 days
         from  the date of  acquisition  thereof  and  having,  at such  date of
         acquisition,  the highest  credit  rating  obtainable  from  Standard &
         Poor's Ratings Service or from Moody's Investors Service, Inc.;

                  (c)   investments  in   certificates   of  deposit,   banker's
         acceptances and time deposits maturing within one year from the date of
         acquisition  thereof  issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money
         market deposit  accounts  issued or offered by, (i) the  Administrative
         Agent or any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the
         laws of the United  States of  America  or any State  thereof or (ii) a
         commercial  banking  institution  organized  and  located  in a country
         recognized  by the United  States of  America,  in each case that has a
         combined  capital and surplus  and  undivided  profits of not less than
         $250,000,000 (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof in another currency);

                  (d) repurchase  obligations with a term of not more than seven
         days for  underlying  securities  of the types  described in clause (a)
         above entered into with any bank meeting the  qualifications  specified
         in clause (c) above;

                  (e)   investments   in  money   market   funds  which   invest
         substantially  all their assets in securities of the types described in
         clauses (a) through (d) above; and

                  (f)  other   short-term   investments   utilized   by  Foreign
         Subsidiaries  in accordance with normal  investment  practices for cash
         management  not exceeding  $1.0 million in aggregate  principal  amount
         outstanding at any time.

         "person" shall mean any natural  person,  corporation,  business trust,
joint venture,  association,  company,  limited liability company,  partnership,
other  business  entity or  government,  or any agency or political  subdivision
thereof.

         "Plan"  shall mean any  employee  pension  benefit  plan  (other than a
Multiemployer  Plan)  subject to the  provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section
412 of the Code or Section  307 of ERISA,  and in respect of which  Terex or any
ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were  terminated,  would under Section 4069
of ERISA be deemed to be) an "employer" as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.

         "Pledge  Agreement" shall mean the Pledge  Agreement,  substantially in
the form of Exhibit G, between  Terex,  its  Subsidiaries  party thereto and the
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

         "Pounds" and "(pound)" shall mean pounds sterling in lawful currency of
the United Kingdom.

         "Pro Forma Acquisition EBITDA" shall mean with respect to any entity or
business unit acquired or to be acquired in a Permitted Acquisition,  the amount
of  Consolidated  EBITDA of such entity or  business  unit (as if such entity or
business  unit  were  Terex)   determined   by  Terex  and   acceptable  to  the
Administrative Agent in its reasonable  discretion,  based upon and derived from
financial information delivered to Administrative Agent prior to consummation of
such Permitted Acquisition for the four-quarter period ending on the last day of
the  immediately  preceding  fiscal  quarter of such entity or business unit for


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which such  financial  information  for such  entity or  business  unit has been
delivered  to the  Administrative  Agent,  adjusted by the  estimated  amount of
non-recurring  revenues  and  expenditures  with respect to the business of such
entity or business unit, as calculated by Terex and acceptable to Administrative
Agent  in its  reasonable  discretion.  On each  subsequent  determination  date
occurring within one year after the consummation of a Permitted Acquisition, the
entity's Pro Forma  Acquisition  EBITDA shall include the Pro Forma  Acquisition
EBITDA  only for those  fiscal  quarters  in the  trailing  four-quarter  period
occurring prior to the closing of such Permitted Acquisition.

         "Pro Rata  Percentage" of any Revolving Credit Lender at any time shall
mean the percentage of the Total Revolving Credit Commitment represented by such
Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment.

         "Purchase Money  Indebtedness"  shall mean any Indebtedness of a person
to any seller or other person incurred to finance the acquisition  (including in
the case of a Capital Lease Obligation, the lease) of any after acquired real or
personal  tangible  property or assets  related to the  business of Terex or the
Subsidiaries  and  which  is  incurred  substantially   concurrently  with  such
acquisition and is secured only by the assets so financed.

         "Refinancing Indebtedness" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 6.01(n).

         "Register" shall have the meaning given such term in Section 9.04(d).

         "Regulation  G" shall  mean  Regulation  G of the Board as from time to
time in effect  and all  official  rulings  and  interpretations  thereunder  or
thereof.

         "Regulation  U" shall  mean  Regulation  U of the Board as from time to
time in effect  and all  official  rulings  and  interpretations  thereunder  or
thereof.

         "Regulation  X" shall  mean  Regulation  X of the Board as from time to
time in effect  and all  official  rulings  and  interpretations  thereunder  or
thereof.

         "Related  Business"  shall mean any business in the manufacture or sale
of  capital  goods  or parts  or  services,  or  otherwise  reasonably  related,
ancillary or  complementary  to the businesses of Terex and the  Subsidiaries on
the date hereof.

         "Release" shall mean any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying,  discharging,   injecting,  escaping,  leaching,  dumping,  disposing,
depositing,  dispersing,  emanating or migrating of any  Hazardous  Material in,
into, onto or through the environment.

         "Remedial  Action"  shall  mean (a)  "remedial  action" as such term is
defined  in  CERCLA,  42 U.S.C.  Section  9601(24),  and (b) all  other  actions
required by any Governmental  Authority or voluntarily  undertaken to: (i) clean
up, remove,  treat,  abate or in any other way address any Hazardous Material in
the environment;  (ii) prevent the Release or threat of Release, or minimize the
further Release of any Hazardous  Material so it does not migrate or endanger or
threaten to endanger public health, welfare or the environment; or (iii) perform
studies and  investigations  in connection with, or as a precondition to, (i) or
(ii) above.


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         "Required  Lenders"  shall  mean,  at any time,  Lenders  having  Loans
(excluding  Swingline  Loans and A/C Fronted  Loans),  L/C  Exposure,  Swingline
Exposure,  A/C  Fronted  Exposure  and  unused  Revolving  Credit  and Term Loan
Commitments  representing  at  least  51% of the  sum of all  Loans  outstanding
(excluding  Swingline  Loans and A/C Fronted  Loans),  L/C  Exposure,  Swingline
Exposure,  A/C  Fronted  Exposure  and  unused  Revolving  Credit  and Term Loan
Commitments at such time. For purposes of  determining  the Required  Lenders on
any date, any amounts denominated in an Alternative Currency shall be translated
into dollars at the Dollar  Equivalent in effect on the most recent  Calculation
Date.

         "Responsible  Officer"  of any  corporation  shall  mean any  executive
officer  or  Financial  Officer  of such  corporation  and any other  officer or
similar official thereof  responsible for the  administration of the obligations
of such corporation in respect of this Agreement.

         "Revolving  Credit  Borrowing"  shall  mean a  Borrowing  comprised  of
Revolving Loans.

         "Revolving Credit  Commitment" shall mean, with respect to each Lender,
the  commitment  of  such  Lender  to  make  Revolving   Loans  and  to  acquire
participations  in L/C  Disbursements,  Swingline  Loans and A/C  Fronted  Loans
hereunder as set forth on Schedule 2.01(a),  or in the Assignment and Acceptance
pursuant  to which such Lender  assumed  its  Revolving  Credit  Commitment,  as
applicable, as the same may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section
2.09 and (b) reduced or increased  from time to time pursuant to  assignments by
or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04.

         "Revolving  Credit  Exposure" shall mean, with respect to any Lender at
any time,  the sum of (a) the  aggregate  principal  amount  of all  outstanding
Dollar Revolving Loans of such Lender at such time, (b) the Dollar Equivalent of
the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Revolving Loans of such Lender
that are Alternative Currency Loans at such time and (c) the aggregate amount of
such Lender's L/C Exposure,  Swingline Exposure and A/C Fronted Exposure at such
time.

         "Revolving  Credit Lender" shall mean a Lender with a Revolving  Credit
Commitment.

         "Revolving Credit Maturity Date" shall mean March 6, 2004.

         "Revolving Loans" shall mean the revolving loans made by the Lenders to
any Borrower  pursuant to clause (c) of Section 2.01.  Each Revolving Loan shall
be a Eurocurrency Revolving Loan or an ABR Revolving Loan.

         "Sale and Leaseback" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6.03.

         "Secured  Parties" shall have the meaning  assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.

         "Security  Agreement" shall mean the Security Agreement,  substantially
in the form of Exhibit H, between Terex, its Subsidiaries  party thereto and the
Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.


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         "Security Documents" shall mean the Mortgages,  the Security Agreement,
the Pledge  Agreement and each of the security  agreements,  mortgages and other
instruments  and  documents  executed  and  delivered  pursuant  to  any  of the
foregoing or pursuant to Section 5.11.

         "Senior Subordinated Notes" shall mean the senior subordinated notes to
be issued by Terex in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed  $200,000,000;
provided  that such senior  subordinated  notes  shall (a) require no  scheduled
payments of principal prior to the date that is 12 months later than the Tranche
B Maturity Date, (b) be subject to subordination provisions no less favorable to
the  Lenders  than  those  described  in  Schedule  1.01(g)  and  be  reasonably
satisfactory in all other respects to the Administrative Agent.

         "Statutory  Reserves"  shall mean a fraction  (expressed as a decimal),
the  numerator  of which is the number one and the  denominator  of which is the
number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any
marginal,  special,  emergency or supplemental  reserves) expressed as a decimal
established  by any  Governmental  Authority  to which banks are subject for any
category  of  deposits  or  liabilities  customarily  used to fund  loans  or by
reference to which  interest  rates  applicable  to Loans are  determined.  Such
reserve,  liquid  asset or  similar  percentages  shall  include  those  imposed
pursuant  to  Regulation  D of the Board  (and for  purposes  of  Regulation  D,
Eurocurrency  Loans  denominated  in  dollars  shall  be  deemed  to  constitute
Eurocurrency  Liabilities).  Loans shall be deemed to be subject to such reserve
requirements  without benefit of or credit for proration,  exemptions or offsets
that may be available from time to time to any Lender under  Regulation D or any
other applicable law, rule or regulation.  Statutory  Reserves shall be adjusted
automatically  on and as of the  effective  date of any  change  in any  reserve
percentage.

         "subsidiary" shall mean, with respect to any person (herein referred to
as the "parent"),  any corporation,  partnership,  association or other business
entity (a) of which securities or other ownership  interests  representing  more
than 50% of the  equity or more than 50% of the  ordinary  voting  power or more
than 50% of the general partnership interests are, at the time any determination
is  being  made,  owned,  controlled  or held,  or (b) that is,  at the time any
determination  is  made,  otherwise  Controlled,  by the  parent  or one or more
subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more  subsidiaries of the
parent.

         "Subsidiary" shall mean any subsidiary of Terex.

         "Subsidiary Borrowers" shall mean, collectively, the Scottish Borrower,
the French Borrower,  the Australian  Borrower,  the Italian Borrower and, after
its accession to this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.19, the German Borrower.

         "Subsidiary  Guarantee  Agreement" shall mean the Guarantee  Agreement,
substantially  in the form of Exhibit I, made by the  Subsidiary  Guarantors  in
favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

         "Subsidiary  Guarantors"  shall  mean each  person  listed on  Schedule
1.01(b)  and each other  person that  becomes  party to a  Subsidiary  Guarantee
Agreement as a Guarantor,  and the permitted successors and assigns of each such
person.


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         "Swingline  Commitment"  shall  mean the  commitment  of the  Swingline
Lender to make loans pursuant to Section 2.22.

         "Swingline  Exposure"  shall mean at any time the  aggregate  principal
amount at such time of all outstanding  Swingline Loans. The Swingline  Exposure
of any Revolving  Credit Lender at any time shall equal its Pro Rata  Percentage
of the aggregate Swingline Exposure at such time.

         "Swingline Lender" shall mean CSFB.

         "Swingline  Loan"  shall  mean any loan  made by the  Swingline  Lender
pursuant to its Swingline Commitment.

         "Terex  Guarantee   Agreement"  shall  mean  the  Guarantee   Agreement
substantially in the form of Exhibit K, made by Terex in favor of the Collateral
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

         "Term  Borrowing"  shall mean a Borrowing  comprised  of Tranche A Term
Loans or Tranche B Term Loans.

         "Term Loan  Commitments"  shall mean the Tranche A Commitments  and the
Tranche B Commitments.

         "Term  Loan  Repayment  Dates"  shall  mean  the  Tranche  A Term  Loan
Repayment Dates and the Tranche B Term Loan Repayment Dates.

         "Term Loans" shall mean the Tranche A Term Loans and the Tranche B Term
Loans.

         "Total  Debt"  shall  mean,  as of any date of  determination,  without
duplication,  the aggregate  principal  amount of  Indebtedness of Terex and its
Subsidiaries  outstanding as of such date,  determined on a  consolidated  basis
(other than Indebtedness of the type referred to in clause (i) of the definition
of the term  "Indebtedness",  except to the extent of any unreimbursed  drawings
thereunder).  For purposes of  calculating  the Leverage  Ratio on any date, the
amount of Total Debt on such date shall be reduced by the amount,  if any,  that
cash on the balance  sheet of Terex and its  consolidated  Subsidiaries  on such
date exceeds $5,000,000.

         "Total  Revolving  Credit  Commitment"  shall  mean,  at any time,  the
aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments, as in effect at such time.

         "Total   Senior   Secured   Debt"  shall  mean,   as  of  any  date  of
determination,  the sum of the  aggregate  principal  amount  of all  (a)  Loans
outstanding as of such date, (b) unreimbursed L/C Disbursements as of such date,
(c) Capital Lease  Obligations of Terex and the  Subsidiaries  outstanding as of
such  date and (d) other  Indebtedness  of Terex  and the  Subsidiaries  that is
secured by any assets of Terex and the Subsidiaries.

         "Tranche A  Commitment"  shall mean,  with respect to each Lender,  the
commitment of such Lender to make Tranche A Term Loans hereunder as set forth on
Schedule  2.01(a),  or in the Assignment  and Acceptance  pursuant to which such
Lender assumed its Tranche A Commitment,  as applicable,  as the same may be (a)
reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09 and (b) reduced or increased


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from time to time  pursuant  to  assignments  by or to such  Lender  pursuant to
Section 9.04.

         "Tranche A Maturity Date" shall mean March 6, 2004.

         "Tranche A Term Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing  comprised of Tranche
A Term Loans.

         "Tranche A Term Loan  Availability  Period"  shall mean the period from
and  including the Closing Date, to and including the earlier of (a) the date of
consummation of the Acquisition and (b) June 30, 1998.

         "Tranche  A Term  Loan  Closing  Date"  shall  mean  each date on which
Tranche A Term Loans are made.

         "Tranche A Term Loan Repayment Date" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 2.11(a)(i).

         "Tranche A Term Loans" shall mean the term loans made by the Lenders to
any Borrower  pursuant to clause (a) of Section  2.01.  Each Tranche A Term Loan
shall be either a Eurocurrency Term Loan or an ABR Term Loan.

         "Tranche B  Commitment"  shall mean,  with respect to each Lender,  the
commitment of such Lender to make Tranche B Term Loans hereunder as set forth on
Schedule  2.01(a),  or in the Assignment  and Acceptance  pursuant to which such
Lender assumed its Tranche B Commitment,  as applicable,  as the same may be (a)
reduced from time to time  pursuant to Section 2.09 and (b) reduced or increased
from time to time  pursuant  to  assignments  by or to such  Lender  pursuant to
Section 9.04.

         "Tranche B Maturity Date" shall mean March 6, 2005.

         "Tranche B Term Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing  comprised of Tranche
B Term Loans.

         "Tranche B Term Loan Closing Date" shall mean the Closing Date.

         "Tranche B Term Loan Repayment Date" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 2.11(a)(ii).

         "Tranche B Term Loans" shall mean the term loans made by the Lenders to
Terex pursuant to clause (b) of Section 2.01.  Each Tranche B Term Loan shall be
either a Eurocurrency Term Loan or an ABR Term Loan.

         "Transactions"  shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.02.

         "Type",  when used in respect of any Loan or Borrowing,  shall refer to
the Rate by reference to which interest on such Loan or on the Loans  comprising
such  Borrowing is  determined  and the currency in which such Loan or the Loans
comprising such Borrowing is denominated.  For purposes hereof,  the term "Rate"
shall include the Adjusted LIBO Rate, the Alternate Base Rate and the rate with


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respect to any Foreign Base Rate Loan,  and currency  shall include  dollars and
any Alternative Currency permitted hereunder.

         "wholly owned Subsidiary" of any person shall mean a subsidiary of such
person of which securities  (except for directors'  qualifying  shares) or other
ownership  interests  representing  100% of the  equity or 100% of the  ordinary
voting power or 100% of the general  partnership  interests are, at the time any
determination is being made, owned,  controlled or held by such person or one or
more wholly owned  subsidiaries of such person or by such person and one or more
wholly owned  subsidiaries  of such person;  provided that each of Terex Cranes,
Inc., P.P.M. Cranes, Inc., P.P.M. S.A., and any future wholly owned subsidiaries
of any of the foregoing shall be deemed to be wholly owned Subsidiaries, in each
case so long as Terex  or one or more  wholly  owned  Subsidiaries  maintains  a
percentage  ownership  interest  in such  entity  equal to or greater  than such
ownership  interest  (on a fully  diluted  basis)  on the  later of (a) the date
hereof or (b) the date such entity is  incorporated  or acquired by Terex or one
or more wholly owned Subsidiaries.

         "Withdrawal  Liability" shall mean liability to a Multiemployer Plan as
a result of a complete or partial  withdrawal from such  Multiemployer  Plan, as
such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

         SECTION 1.02.  Terms  Generally.  The definitions in Section 1.01 shall
apply  equally  to both the  singular  and  plural  forms of the terms  defined.
Whenever the context may require,  any pronoun shall  include the  corresponding
masculine,  feminine  and neuter  forms.  The words  "include",  "includes"  and
"including"  shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without  limitation".
All references  herein to Articles,  Sections,  Exhibits and Schedules  shall be
deemed  references  to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and  Schedules to,
this Agreement unless the context shall otherwise  require.  Except as otherwise
expressly  provided  herein,  (a) any  reference  in this  Agreement to any Loan
Document  shall  mean  such  document  as  amended,  restated,  supplemented  or
otherwise  modified  from  time to time and (b) all  terms of an  accounting  or
financial  nature shall be construed in accordance  with GAAP, as in effect from
time to time; provided, however, that if Terex notifies the Administrative Agent
that Terex wishes to amend any covenant in Article VI or any related  definition
to eliminate the effect of any change in GAAP  occurring  after the date of this
Agreement on the  operation of such  covenant  (or if the  Administrative  Agent
notifies Terex that the Required Lenders wish to amend Article VI or any related
definition for such purpose),  then Terex's  compliance with such covenant shall
be  determined  on the basis of GAAP in effect  immediately  before the relevant
change in GAAP became  effective,  until either such notice is withdrawn or such
covenant is amended in a manner satisfactory to Terex and the Required Lenders.

         SECTION  1.03.   Exchange   Rates.  On  each   Calculation   Date,  the
Administrative  Agent shall  determine the Exchange Rate as of such  Calculation
Date to be used for  calculating  relevant  Dollar  Equivalent  and  Alternative
Currency  Equivalent  amounts.  The Exchange  Rates so  determined  shall become
effective  on such  Calculation  Date,  shall  remain  effective  until the next
succeeding  Calculation Date and shall for all purposes of this Agreement (other
than any provision  expressly  requiring the use of a current  Exchange Rate) be
the Exchange  Rates  employed in converting  any amounts  between the applicable
currencies.


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                                   ARTICLE II

                                   The Credits

         SECTION  2.01.  Commitments.  Subject to the terms and  conditions  and
relying upon the  representations  and warranties  herein set forth, each Lender
agrees,  severally  and not  jointly,  (a) to make  Tranche A Term  Loans to the
Borrowers,  in dollars (in the case of Terex),  Marks (in the case of the German
Borrower), Pounds (in the case of the Scottish Borrower) and Francs (in the case
of the French  Borrower)  on the Closing  Date and on a single  additional  date
prior to the earlier of the  expiration of the Tranche A Term Loan  Availability
Period and the  termination  of the Tranche A Term  Commitment of such Lender in
accordance with the terms hereof, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
its Tranche A Term Commitment;  provided, however, that the Dollar Equivalent of
the  Alternative  Currency  Term Loans in any  Alternative  Currency made by all
Tranche A Lenders  shall not exceed the sublimit for such  Alternative  Currency
set forth on Schedule  2.01(b),  (b) to make  Tranche B Term Loans to Terex,  in
dollars,  on the  Closing  Date in  accordance  with  the  terms  hereof,  in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed its Tranche B Term Commitment,  and (c)
to make Revolving  Loans to the Borrowers,  at any time and from time to time on
or after the date hereof, and until the earlier of the Revolving Credit Maturity
Date and the  termination of the Revolving  Credit  Commitment of such Lender in
accordance with the terms hereof,  in dollars (in the case of Terex),  Marks (in
the case of the German Borrower),  Pounds (in the case of the Scottish Borrower)
and Francs (in the case of the French Borrower) in an aggregate principal amount
at any time outstanding  that will not result in such Lender's  Revolving Credit
Exposure exceeding such Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however,
that the  Alternative  Currency  Revolving  Credit  Exposure with respect to any
Alternative Currency shall not exceed the sublimit for such Alternative Currency
set forth in Schedule 2.01(b).  Within the limits set forth in clause (c) of the
preceding  sentence and subject to the terms,  conditions  and  limitations  set
forth herein,  the Borrowers  may borrow,  pay or prepay and reborrow  Revolving
Loans. Amounts paid or prepaid in respect of Term Loans may not be reborrowed.

         SECTION  2.02.  Loans.  (a) Each Loan (other than A/C Fronted Loans and
Swingline  Loans) shall be made as part of a Borrowing  consisting of Loans made
by  the  Lenders  ratably  in  accordance  with  their   applicable   Tranche  A
Commitments,   Tranche  B  Commitments  or  Revolving  Credit  Commitments,   as
applicable;  provided,  however, that the failure of any Lender to make any Loan
shall not in itself relieve any other Lender of its obligation to lend hereunder
(it being  understood,  however,  that no Lender  shall be  responsible  for the
failure of any other  Lender to make any Loan  required to be made by such other
Lender).  Except for Loans deemed made  pursuant to Section  2.02(f),  the Loans
comprising any Borrowing shall be in an aggregate  principal  amount that is (i)
an  integral  multiple  of  $100,000  (or the  Alternative  Currency  Equivalent
thereof) and not less than  $2,500,000 (or the Alternative  Currency  Equivalent
thereof)  or (ii) equal to the  remaining  available  balance of the  applicable
Commitments.  As provided in Section  2.03,  each request for a Borrowing  shall
state the amount requested in dollars (whether or not such Borrowing is to be an
Alternative Currency Borrowing). To the extent any Tranche A Term Loans are made
as  Alternative  Currency  Loans,  such Loans shall  continue to be  Alternative
Currency Loans  (denominated  and payable in the  Alternative  Currency in which
such  Loans  are  advanced)  for as long  as they  are  outstanding  under  this
Agreement.


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         (b) Subject to Sections 2.08, 2.15 and 2.24, (i) each Dollar  Borrowing
shall be  comprised  entirely  of ABR Loans or  Eurocurrency  Loans as Terex may
request  pursuant to Section 2.03 and (ii) each Alternative  Currency  Borrowing
shall be comprised entirely of Eurocurrency Loans. Each Lender may at its option
make any  Eurocurrency  Loan by causing any  domestic or foreign  branch of such
Lender to make such Loan;  provided  that any  exercise of such option shall not
affect  the  obligation  of the  applicable  Borrower  to  repay  such  Loan  in
accordance  with the terms of this  Agreement.  Borrowings of more than one Type
may be outstanding at the same time; provided,  however,  that no Borrower shall
be entitled to request any Borrowing that, if made, would result in more than 15
Eurocurrency  Borrowings  outstanding hereunder at any time. For purposes of the
foregoing,  Borrowings  having  different  Interest  Periods or  denominated  in
different  currencies,  regardless  of whether  they  commence on the same date,
shall be considered separate Borrowings.

         (c) Except with respect to Loans made pursuant to Section 2.02(f), each
Lender  shall make each Dollar Loan to be made by it  hereunder  on the proposed
date thereof by wire transfer of immediately  available funds to such account in
New York City as the  Administrative  Agent may  designate  not later than 11:00
a.m.,  New York City time,  and the  Administrative  Agent shall,  promptly upon
receipt  thereof,  credit the amounts so received to an account as designated by
Terex, in the applicable Borrowing Request or, if a Borrowing shall not occur on
such date because any condition  precedent  herein specified shall not have been
met, return the amounts so received to the respective Lenders. Each Lender shall
make each  Alternative  Currency Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed
date thereof by wire transfer of immediately  available funds to such account in
the jurisdiction of the applicable  Alternative  Currency as the  Administrative
Agent may designate  for such purposes not later than 11:00 a.m.,  local time of
such  jurisdiction,  and the Administrative  Agent shall,  promptly upon receipt
thereof,  credit the  amounts so  received  to an account as  designated  by the
applicable Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request or, if a Borrowing shall
not occur on such date because any condition  precedent  herein  specified shall
not have been met, return the amounts so received to the respective Lenders.

         (d) Unless the  Administrative  Agent shall have received notice from a
Lender  prior  to the  date of any  Borrowing  that  such  Lender  will not make
available to the  Administrative  Agent such Lender's portion of such Borrowing,
the  Administrative  Agent may assume  that such  Lender  has made such  portion
available  to the  Administrative  Agent  on  the  date  of  such  Borrowing  in
accordance  with  paragraph  (c)  above and the  Administrative  Agent  may,  in
reliance upon such assumption, make available to the applicable Borrower on such
date a  corresponding  amount.  If the  Administrative  Agent shall have so made
funds  available  then,  to the extent that such Lender shall not have made such
portion  available to the  Administrative  Agent, such Lender and the applicable
Borrower  severally  agree to repay to the  Administrative  Agent  forthwith  on
demand such  corresponding  amount together with interest thereon,  for each day
from the date such amount is made available to such Borrower until the date such
amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of any Borrower,
the interest rate applicable at the time to the Loans  comprising such Borrowing
and (ii) in the case of such Lender,  a rate  determined  by the  Administrative
Agent to represent its cost of overnight or short-term  funds in the  applicable
currency (which  determination  shall be conclusive  absent manifest error).  If
such Lender shall repay to the Administrative  Agent such corresponding  amount,
such amount shall  constitute  such Lender's Loan as part of such  Borrowing for
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         (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement,  no Borrower
shall  be  entitled  to  request  any  Interest   Period  with  respect  to  any
Eurocurrency  Borrowing or A/C Fronted  Fixed Rate Loan that would end after the
Revolving  Credit  Maturity Date or the Tranche A Maturity Date or the Tranche B
Maturity Date, as the case may be.

         (f) If any Issuing Bank shall not have  received  from any Borrower the
payment  required to be made by it pursuant to Section  2.23(e)  within the time
specified  in  such  Section,   such  Issuing  Bank  will  promptly  notify  the
Administrative  Agent of the L/C Disbursement and the Administrative  Agent will
promptly notify each Revolving  Credit Lender of such L/C  Disbursement  and its
Pro Rata  Percentage  thereof.  In the case of Letters of Credit  denominated in
dollars,  each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to the  Administrative  Agent not later than 2:00 p.m., New York
City time, on such date (or, if such Revolving Credit Lender shall have received
such notice later than 12:00  (noon),  New York City time, on any day, not later
than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the immediately following Business Day),
an amount in dollars  equal to such  Lender's  Pro Rata  Percentage  of such L/C
Disbursement (it being understood that such amount shall be deemed to constitute
an ABR  Revolving  Loan of such Lender and such payment  shall be deemed to have
reduced the L/C Exposure), and the Administrative Agent will promptly pay to the
applicable  Issuing  Bank  amounts so received by it from the  Revolving  Credit
Lenders.  In the case of  Letters  of Credit  denominated  in  Marks,  Pounds or
Francs,  each Revolving  Credit Lender shall pay by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m., local time
of the  jurisdiction  of such  Alternative  Currency,  on such  date (or if such
Revolving Credit Lender shall have received such notice later than 12:00 (noon),
local time of such jurisdiction,  on the immediately following Business Day), an
amount in such  Alternative  Currency equal to such Lender's Pro Rata Percentage
of such L/C  Disbursement  (it being understood that such amount shall be deemed
to constitute an  Alternative  Currency  Revolving  Loan of such Lender and such
payment   shall  be  deemed  to  have  reduced  the  L/C   Exposure),   and  the
Administrative Agent will promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Bank amounts so
received  by it from the  Revolving  Credit  Lenders.  In the case of Letters of
Credit  denominated  in any  Alternative  Currency  except for Marks,  Pounds or
Francs,  the  Administrative  Agent shall notify each Revolving Credit Lender of
the Dollar  Equivalent  of the L/C  Disbursement  and of such  Revolving  Credit
Lender's Pro Rata Percentage thereof, and each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay
by wire transfer of immediately  available funds to the Administrative Agent not
later than 2:00 p.m.,  New York City time,  on such date (or, if such  Revolving
Credit Lender shall have received such notice later than 12:00 (noon),  New York
City time,  on any day,  not later than 10:00 a.m.,  New York city time,  on the
immediately following Business Day), an amount in dollars equal to such Lender's
Pro Rata  Percentage of such L/C  Disbursement  (it being  understood  that such
amount shall be deemed to constitute  an ABR  Revolving  Loan of such Lender and
such  payment  shall  be  deemed  to have  reduced  the L/C  Exposure),  and the
Administrative Agent will promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Bank amounts so
received by it from the Revolving Credit Lenders.  The Administrative Agent will
promptly pay to the applicable  Issuing Bank any amounts received by it from any
Borrower pursuant to Section 2.23(e) prior to the time that any Revolving Credit
Lender  makes any  payment  pursuant to this  paragraph  (f);  any such  amounts
received by the Administrative Agent thereafter will be promptly remitted by the
Administrative  Agent to the Revolving  Credit Lenders that shall have made such
payments and to the applicable  Issuing Bank, as their interests may appear.  If
any Revolving  Credit Lender shall not have made its Pro Rata Percentage of such
L/C Disbursement  available to the Administrative  Agent as provided above, such
Lender and the applicable Borrower severally agree to pay interest on such


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amount,  for each day from and  including the date such amount is required to be
paid in accordance  with this paragraph to but excluding the date such amount is
paid, to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank
at (i) in the case of any Borrower,  a rate per annum equal to the interest rate
applicable to Revolving Loans pursuant to Section 2.06(a),  and (ii) in the case
of such Lender,  for the first such day, a rate determined by the Administrative
Agent to represent its cost of overnight funds in the applicable  currency,  and
for each day thereafter, (x) if such L/C Disbursement is denominated in dollars,
the Alternate Base Rate, and (y) if such L/C  Disbursement  is denominated in an
Alternative Currency, the applicable Foreign Base Rate.

         SECTION  2.03.  Borrowing  Procedure.  In order to request a  Borrowing
(other than a Swingline Loan, an A/C Fronted Loan or a deemed Borrowing pursuant
to  Section  2.02(f),  as to which  this  Section  2.03  shall not  apply),  the
applicable Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy to the Administrative Agent a
duly  completed  Borrowing  Request  (or  telephone  the  Administrative  Agent,
promptly  confirmed with a written and duly completed  Borrowing Request) (a) in
the  case  of a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing  (other  than an  Alternative  Currency
Borrowing), not later than 12:00 (noon), New York City time, three Business Days
before  a  proposed  Borrowing,  (b)  in the  case  of an  Alternative  Currency
Borrowing,  not later than 12:00 (noon),  local time of the jurisdiction of such
Alternative  Currency,  three  Business  Days  before  the date of the  proposed
Borrowing and (c) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m., New
York City time,  one Business Day before a proposed  Borrowing.  Each  Borrowing
Request (including a telephonic  Borrowing Request) shall be irrevocable,  shall
be signed  by or on behalf of such  Borrower  and shall  specify  the  following
information:  (i)  whether  such  Borrowing  is to be a Dollar  Borrowing  or an
Alternative Currency Borrowing;  (ii) whether the Borrowing then being requested
is to be a Tranche A Term  Borrowing,  Tranche B Term  Borrowing  or a Revolving
Credit  Borrowing;  (iii) if such  Borrowing  is to be  denominated  in dollars,
whether it is to be a Eurocurrency Borrowing or an ABR Borrowing;  (iv) the date
of such  Borrowing  (which shall be a Business Day); (v) the number and location
of the account to which  funds are to be  disbursed  (which  shall be an account
that complies with the requirements of Section 2.02(c)); (vi) the amount of such
Borrowing (which shall be specified in dollars,  even if such Borrowing is to be
made in an Alternative  Currency);  (vii) subject to the  limitations of Section
2.01,  the currency of such  Borrowing;  and (viii) if such Borrowing is to be a
Eurocurrency  Borrowing,  the  initial  Interest  Period with  respect  thereto;
provided,  however,  that,  notwithstanding  any contrary  specification  in any
Borrowing Request,  each requested  Borrowing shall comply with the requirements
set forth in Section  2.02.  If no election as to the  currency of  Borrowing is
specified in any such notice,  then the requested Borrowing shall be denominated
in the only  currency  permitted  to be  borrowed by such  Borrower  pursuant to
Section  2.01.  If no election as to the Type of  Borrowing  is specified in any
such  notice,  then  the  requested  Borrowing  shall  be an  ABR  Borrowing  if
denominated  in  dollars  or a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing  if  denominated  in  an
Alternative  Currency.  If no Interest  Period with respect to any  Eurocurrency
Borrowing is specified in any such notice, then such Borrower shall be deemed to
have selected an Interest  Period of one month's  duration.  The  Administrative
Agent shall promptly advise the applicable  Lenders of any notice given pursuant
to this Section 2.03 (and the contents thereof), of each Lender's portion of the
requested  Borrowing and the account to which Loans made in connection  with the
requested Borrowing are to be wired.

         SECTION 2.04.  Evidence of Debt;  Repayment of Loans. (a) Each Borrower
hereby  unconditionally  promises  to pay to the  Administrative  Agent  for the
account of the Swingline  Lender or each other Lender  entitled  thereto (i) the
then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan, on the last day of the


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Interest Period applicable to such Loan or, if earlier,  on the Revolving Credit
Maturity  Date,  (ii) the  principal  amount of each Term Loan of such Lender as
provided  in Section  2.11 and (iii) the then  unpaid  principal  amount of each
Revolving Loan and A/C Fronted Loan on the Revolving Credit Maturity Date.

         (b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an
account or accounts  evidencing the indebtedness of each Borrower to such Lender
resulting  from each Loan made by such Lender from time to time,  including  the
amounts of principal and interest payable and paid such Lender from time to time
under this Agreement.

         (c) The  Administrative  Agent shall maintain accounts in which it will
record  (i) the amount of each Loan made  hereunder,  the Type  thereof  and the
Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest
due and payable or to become due and payable  from each  Borrower to each Lender
hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the  Administrative  Agent
hereunder from each Borrower or any Guarantor and each Lender's share thereof.

         (d) The entries made in the accounts  maintained pursuant to paragraphs
(b) and (c) above shall be prima facie  evidence of the existence and amounts of
the obligations  therein recorded;  provided,  however,  that the failure of any
Lender  or the  Administrative  Agent to  maintain  such  accounts  or any error
therein shall not in any manner affect the  obligations of any Borrower to repay
the Loans in accordance with their terms.

         (e) Any Lender may  request  that  Loans made by it be  evidenced  by a
promissory  note. In such event,  the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such
Lender a  promissory  note payable to the order of such Lender (or, if requested
by such  Lender,  to such Lender and its  registered  assigns) and in a form and
substance  reasonably  acceptable to the Administrative  Agent and the Borrower.
Notwithstanding  any other provision of this Agreement,  in the event any Lender
shall  request  and  receive a  promissory  note  payable to such Lender and its
registered  assigns,  the interests  represented by such note shall at all times
(including  after any  assignment of all or part of such  interests  pursuant to
Section  9.04) be  represented  by one or more  promissory  notes payable to the
payee named therein or its registered assigns.

         SECTION 2.05.  Fees. (a) Terex agrees to pay to each Lender in dollars,
through the Administrative  Agent, on the last day of March, June, September and
December  in each  year and on each date on which any  Tranche A  Commitment  or
Revolving  Credit  Commitment  of such Lender shall expire or be  terminated  as
provided  herein,  a facility  fee (a  "Facility  Fee") equal to the  Applicable
Percentage  per  annum in effect  from  time to time on the total  amount of the
Tranche A Commitments  and,  without  duplication,  Tranche A Term Loans and the
total amount  (whether used or unused) of the Revolving  Credit  Commitments  of
such Lender (but not the Tranche B Commitments,  the A/C Fronting Commitments or
the  Swingline  Commitments)  during  the  preceding  quarter  (or other  period
commencing  with the date hereof or ending with the  Revolving  Credit  Maturity
Date or Tranche A Maturity Date, as applicable, or the date on which the Tranche
A Commitments and Revolving Credit Commitments of such Lender shall expire or be
terminated);  provided,  however,  that if any Revolving Credit Exposure remains
outstanding following any such expiration or termination of the Revolving Credit
Commitments,  the Facility Fees with respect to such Revolving  Credit  Exposure
shall continue to accrue for so long as such Revolving  Credit Exposure  remains
outstanding and shall be payable on demand.  All Facility Fees shall be computed
on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360 days.  The


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Facility Fee due to each Lender shall  commence to accrue on the date hereof and
shall cease to accrue on the date on which the Tranche A Commitment or Revolving
Credit  Commitment,  as the case  may be,  of such  Lender  shall  expire  or be
terminated as provided  herein and there is not any remaining  Revolving  Credit
Exposure.

         (b) Each Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent in dollars,
for its own account,  the administrative fees set forth in the Fee Letter at the
times and in the amounts specified therein (the "Administrative Agent Fees").

         (c) Each Borrower  agrees to pay (i) to each  Revolving  Credit Lender,
through the Administrative  Agent, on the last day of March, June, September and
December of each year and on the date on which the Revolving  Credit  Commitment
of  such  Lender  shall  be  terminated  as  provided  herein,  a fee  (an  "L/C
Participation  Fee")  calculated  on such  Lender's Pro Rata  Percentage  of the
average daily aggregate L/C Exposure (excluding the portion thereof attributable
to  unreimbursed  L/C  Disbursements)  during the preceding  quarter (or shorter
period  commencing  with the date  hereof or ending  with the  Revolving  Credit
Maturity  Date or the date on which all Letters of Credit have been  canceled or
have expired and the Revolving Credit Commitments of all Lenders shall have been
terminated) at a rate equal to the Applicable  Percentage from time to time used
to determine  the  interest  rate on Revolving  Credit  Borrowings  comprised of
Eurocurrency  Loans pursuant to Section 2.06, and (ii) to each Issuing Bank with
respect to each  Letter of Credit  issued by it on the last day of March,  June,
September  and  December  in each year and on each  date on which any  Revolving
Credit  Commitment  shall expire or be terminated as set forth herein a fronting
fee equal to 0.125% per annum on the amount of Letters of Credit  issued by such
Issuing  Bank and  outstanding  during the  preceding  quarter (or other  period
commencing on the date hereof or ending with the Revolving  Credit Maturity Date
or the date on  which  the  Revolving  Credit  Commitments  shall  expire  or be
terminated) (the "Issuing Bank Fees").  All L/C  Participation  Fees and Issuing
Bank Fees shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in
a year of 360 days and shall be payable in dollars.

         (d) Except as provided in Section  2.24(e),  each A/C  Fronting  Lender
agrees to pay to each Revolving Credit Lender, through the Administrative Agent,
on each Interest Payment Date with respect to each A/C Fronted Loan made by such
A/C Fronting Lender, a fee (an "A/C Participation  Fee") equal to such Revolving
Credit  Lender's Pro Rata  Percentage of the Applicable  Percentage  received by
such A/C Fronting  Lender from or on behalf of the  applicable  Borrower on such
Interest Payment Date in respect of such A/C Fronted Loan. All A/C Participation
Fees shall be payable (i) in the currency in which they were received by the A/C
Fronting Lender and (ii) only to the extent received by the A/C Fronting Lender.

         (e) Each of the Australian  Borrower and the Italian Borrower severally
agrees to pay to the Australian Fronting Lender and the Italian Fronting Lender,
respectively,  on the last day of March,  June,  September  and December in each
year and on each date on which the A/C Fronting  Commitment of such Lender shall
expire or be  terminated  as set forth herein a fronting fee equal to 0.125% per
annum on the  aggregate  principal  amount of A/C  Fronted  Loans of such Lender
outstanding during the preceding quarter (or other period commencing on the date
hereof or ending with the  Revolving  Credit  Maturity Date or the date on which
the A/C Fronting  Commitment  shall expire or be terminated)  (the "A/C Fronting
Fees").  All A/C  Fronting  Fees  shall be  computed  on the basis of the actual
number of days elapsed in a year of 360 days and shall be payable in  Australian
Dollars or Lire, as the case may be.


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         (f) All Fees shall be paid on the dates due, in  immediately  available
funds,  to the  Administrative  Agent for  distribution,  if and as appropriate,
among the Lenders,  except that the Issuing Bank Fees shall be paid  directly to
the  applicable  Issuing Bank.  Once paid,  none of the Fees shall be refundable
under any circumstances.

         SECTION  2.06.  Interest  on Loans.  (a) Subject to the  provisions  of
Section 2.07, the Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing,  including each Swingline
Loan,  shall bear  interest  (computed on the basis of the actual number of days
elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days,  as the case may be, when the  Alternate
Base Rate is  determined  by  reference to the Prime Rate and over a year of 360
days  at all  other  times)  at a rate  per  annum  equal  to the sum of (i) the
Alternate Base Rate and (ii) the Applicable  Percentage for such Loans in effect
from time to time.

         (b) Subject to the  provisions of Section 2.07,  each Foreign Base Rate
Loan shall bear  interest  (computed  on the basis of the actual  number of days
elapsed  over a year of 360 days or,  in the case of  Foreign  Base  Rate  Loans
denominated in Pounds,  365 or 366 days, as the case may be) at a rate per annum
equal  to the sum of (i) the  rate  set  forth  in the  definition  of the  term
"Foreign Base Rate Loans" and (ii) the  Applicable  Percentage for ABR Revolving
Loans in effect from time to time.

         (c) Subject to the  provisions  of Section 2.07,  the Loans  comprising
each  Eurocurrency  Borrowing shall bear interest  (computed on the basis of the
actual  number  of days  elapsed  over a year of 360  days  or,  in the  case of
Eurocurrency  Loans denominated in Pounds,  365 or 366 days, as the case may be)
at a rate per  annum  equal  to the sum of (i) the  Adjusted  LIBO  Rate for the
Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing and (ii) the Applicable  Percentage
for such Loans in effect from time to time.

         (d) Interest on each Loan shall be payable (i) on the Interest  Payment
Dates applicable to such Loan except as otherwise provided in this Agreement and
(ii) in the currency in which such Loan is denominated. The applicable Alternate
Base Rate or  Adjusted  LIBO  Rate for each  Interest  Period  or day  within an
Interest Period,  as the case may be, shall be determined by the  Administrative
Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

         SECTION 2.07.  Default  Interest.  If any Borrower shall default in the
payment of the principal of or interest on any Loan or any other amount becoming
due hereunder,  by acceleration or otherwise,  or under any other Loan Document,
such  Borrower  shall on demand  from time to time pay  interest,  to the extent
permitted by law, on such  defaulted  amount to but excluding the date of actual
payment  (after as well as before  judgment)  (a) in the case of the Loans,  the
rate that would  otherwise be applicable  thereto  pursuant to Section 2.06 plus
2%,  (b)  in  the  case  of  reimbursement   obligations  with  respect  to  L/C
Disbursements owing in dollars,  the rate applicable to ABR Revolving Loans plus
2% and  (c)  in the  case  of  reimbursement  obligations  with  respect  to L/C
Disbursements  owing in Alternative  Currencies,  the rate applicable to Foreign
Base Rate Loans that are Revolving  Credit Loans for the Applicable  Alternative
Currency  plus  2%,  (d) in the  case of any  interest  payable  on any  Loan or
reimbursement  obligation  with respect to any L/C  Disbursement or any Facility
Fee or other  amount  payable  hereunder,  at a rate per annum equal to the rate
applicable  to ABR Loans (or, in the case of interest,  fees or amounts owing on
account of obligations denominated in Alternative Currencies,  Foreign Base Rate
Loans) that are Tranche A Term Loans,  Tranche B Term Loans or Revolving  Loans,
as applicable, plus 2% (or, in the case of fees, reimbursements or any such 


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other  amounts that do not relate to Tranche A Term Loans,  Tranche B Term Loans
or the Revolving Credit Exposure, the Alternate Base Rate plus 3.00%).

         SECTION 2.08.  Alternate  Rate of Interest.  In the event,  and on each
occasion,  that on the day two Business  Days prior to the  commencement  of any
Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Borrowing the Administrative Agent shall have
determined  that (a) deposits in the principal  amounts of the Loans  comprising
such Borrowing are not generally  available in the relevant  market,  or (b) the
rates at which such  deposits are being offered will not  adequately  and fairly
reflect the cost to any Lender of making or maintaining  its  Eurocurrency  Loan
during  such  Interest  Period,  or  (c)  reasonable  means  do  not  exist  for
ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate, the Administrative  Agent shall, as soon as
practicable  thereafter,   give  written  or  telecopy  notice  explaining  such
determination  to the applicable  Borrower and the Lenders.  In the event of any
such  determination,  until the  Administrative  Agent shall have  advised  such
Borrower  and the Lenders that the  circumstances  giving rise to such notice no
longer  exist,  any  request  by  such  Borrower  for a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing
denominated in dollars  pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.10 shall be deemed to be a
request for an ABR Borrowing.  Each  determination by the  Administrative  Agent
hereunder  shall be  conclusive  absent  manifest  error and any request by such
Borrower for a Eurocurrency  Borrowing  denominated in any Alternative  Currency
pursuant  to Section  2.03 or 2.10 shall be deemed to be a request for a Foreign
Base Rate Loan.

         SECTION 2.09. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) The Tranche
B Commitments shall automatically terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Closing Date. The Tranche A Commitments  shall  automatically  be reduced on
the date of each  borrowing  of Tranche A Term  Loans by an amount  equal to the
Dollar  Equivalent of the aggregate  principal amount of Tranche A Term Loans so
borrowed,  and any remaining  unused Tranche A Commitments  shall  automatically
terminate  at 5:00 p.m.,  New York City time,  on the last day of the  Tranche A
Term Loan Availability Period;  provided,  however, that upon not less than five
Business Days' prior  irrevocable  written or telecopy notice from Terex,  Terex
may elect to convert  the  unused  Tranche A  Commitments  to  Revolving  Credit
Commitments on or prior to the last day of the Tranche A Term Loan  Availability
Period. The Revolving Credit  Commitments,  the Swingline  Commitments,  the A/C
Fronting Commitments and the L/C Commitment shall automatically terminate on the
Revolving  Credit  Maturity  Date.   Notwithstanding  the  foregoing,   all  the
Commitments shall  automatically  terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on
April 30,  1998,  if the initial  Credit  Event shall not have  occurred by such
time.

         (b) Upon at least three  Business  Days' prior  irrevocable  written or
telecopy  notice  to the  Administrative  Agent,  Terex may at any time in whole
permanently  terminate,  or from time to time in part  permanently  reduce,  the
Tranche  A  Commitments,  the  Tranche B  Commitments  or the  Revolving  Credit
Commitments; provided, however, that (i) each partial reduction of either of the
Term  Loan  Commitments  or the  Revolving  Credit  Commitments  shall  be in an
integral  multiple of $1,000,000  and in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 and (ii)
the Total Revolving Credit  Commitment shall not be reduced to an amount that is
less than the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure at the time.

         (c) Each  reduction  in  either  of the Term  Loan  Commitments  or the
Revolving Credit  Commitments  hereunder shall be made ratably among the Lenders
in accordance with their respective applicable  Commitments.  Terex shall pay to
the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders, on the date


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of each termination or reduction, the Facility Fees on the amount of any Tranche
A Commitments or Revolving  Credit  Commitments so terminated or reduced accrued
to but excluding the date of such termination or reduction.

         SECTION 2.10. Conversion and Continuation of Borrowings.  Each Borrower
shall  have  the  right  at  any  time  upon  prior  irrevocable  notice  to the
Administrative  Agent (a) not later  than 1:00  p.m.,  New York City  time,  one
Business  Day  prior  to  conversion,  to  convert  any  Eurocurrency  Borrowing
denominated in dollars into an ABR  Borrowing,  (b) not later than 12:00 (noon),
New  York  City  time  (or  local  time in the  jurisdiction  of the  applicable
Alternative Currency, in the case of a continuation of the Interest Period for a
Eurocurrency Borrowing in an Alternative Currency), three Business Days prior to
conversion or  continuation,  to convert any ABR Borrowing  into a  Eurocurrency
Borrowing denominated in dollars or to continue any Eurocurrency  Borrowing as a
Eurocurrency  Borrowing in the same currency for an additional  Interest Period,
and (c) not later  than 12:00  (noon),  New York City time (or local time in the
jurisdiction of the applicable Alternative Currency),  three Business Days prior
to conversion,  to convert the Interest Period with respect to any  Eurocurrency
Borrowing to another  permissible  Interest Period,  subject in each case to the
following:

                  (i) each  conversion  or  continuation  shall be made pro rata
         among the Lenders in accordance with the respective  principal  amounts
         of the Loans comprising the converted or continued Borrowing;

                  (ii) if less than all the outstanding  principal amount of any
         Borrowing  shall  be  converted  or  continued,   then  each  resulting
         Borrowing shall satisfy the limitations  specified in Sections  2.02(a)
         and  2.02(b)  regarding  the  principal  amount and  maximum  number of
         Borrowings of the relevant Type;

                  (iii) each conversion shall be effected by each Lender and the
         Administrative  Agent by  recording  for the account of such Lender the
         new Loan of such Lender resulting from such conversion and reducing the
         Loan  (or  portion  thereof)  of  such  Lender  being  converted  by an
         equivalent principal amount;  accrued interest on any Eurocurrency Loan
         (or portion  thereof) being converted shall be paid by such Borrower at
         the time of conversion;

                  (iv) if any  Eurocurrency  Borrowing  is  converted  at a time
         other than the end of the  Interest  Period  applicable  thereto,  such
         Borrower  shall  pay,  upon  demand,  any  amounts  due to the  Lenders
         pursuant to Section 2.16;

                  (v) any  portion of a  Borrowing  (other  than an  Alternative
         Currency  Borrowing) maturing or required to be repaid in less than one
         month  may  not  be  converted  into  or  continued  as a  Eurocurrency
         Borrowing;

                  (vi) any portion of a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing  denominated in
         dollars  that cannot be converted  into or continued as a  Eurocurrency
         Borrowing  by  reason  of the  immediately  preceding  clause  shall be
         automatically converted at the end of the Interest Period in effect for
         such Borrowing into an ABR Borrowing, and any portion of an Alternative
         Currency  Borrowing required to be repaid in less than one month may be
         converted,  with the consent of the  Administrative  Agent (which shall
         not be unreasonably withheld), to an Interest Period ending on the 


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         date that such Borrowing is required to be repaid;

                  (vii) no Interest Period may be selected for any  Eurocurrency
         Borrowing  that is a  Tranche  A Term  Borrowing  or a  Tranche  B Term
         Borrowing  that  would end later  than a Tranche A Term Loan  Repayment
         Date or Tranche B Term Loan Repayment Date, respectively,  occurring on
         or after the first day of such Interest  Period if, after giving effect
         to  such  selection,  the  aggregate  outstanding  amount  of  (A)  the
         Eurocurrency  Term  Borrowings  that are Tranche A Term  Borrowings  or
         Tranche B Term Borrowings, as applicable,  with Interest Periods ending
         on or prior to such  Tranche A Term Loan  Repayment  Date or  Tranche B
         Term Loan Repayment Date and (B) the ABR Term  Borrowings  would not be
         at least equal to the principal amount of Term Borrowings to be paid on
         such  Tranche  A Term  Loan  Repayment  Date  or  Tranche  B Term  Loan
         Repayment Date; and

                  (viii) upon  notice to any  Borrower  from the  Administrative
         Agent  given  at  the  request  of  the  Required  Lenders,  after  the
         occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default,
         (A) no outstanding Dollar Borrowing may be converted into, or continued
         as, a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing,  (B) unless repaid,  each  Eurocurrency
         Borrowing denominated in dollars shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing
         at  the  end of the  Interest  Period  applicable  thereto  and  (C) no
         Interest  Period  in  excess  of one  month  may be  selected  for  any
         Alternative Currency Borrowing.

         Each notice  pursuant to this  Section  2.10 shall be  irrevocable  and
shall refer to this  Agreement  and specify (i) the  identity  and amount of the
Borrowing that the applicable Borrower requests be converted or continued,  (ii)
whether such  Borrowing  is to be  converted  to or continued as a  Eurocurrency
Borrowing or an ABR Borrowing,  (iii) if such notice requests a conversion,  the
date of such  conversion  (which  shall  be a  Business  Day)  and  (iv) if such
Borrowing is to be converted to or continued as a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing,  the
Interest Period with respect thereto.  If no Interest Period is specified in any
such notice with respect to any conversion to or  continuation as a Eurocurrency
Borrowing,  such Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of
one month's duration.  The Administrative  Agent shall advise the Lenders of any
notice given  pursuant to this Section 2.10 and of each Lender's  portion of any
converted or continued  Borrowing.  If such Borrower shall not have given notice
in accordance with this Section 2.10 to continue any Borrowing into a subsequent
Interest  Period (and shall not otherwise  have given notice in accordance  with
this Section 2.10 to convert such  Borrowing),  such Borrowing shall, at the end
of the Interest Period  applicable  thereto (unless repaid pursuant to the terms
hereof), (i) in the case of a Dollar Borrowing,  automatically be continued into
a new Interest Period as an ABR Borrowing and (ii) in the case of an Alternative
Currency Borrowing, automatically be continued into a new Interest Period of one
month.  Notwithstanding  any  contrary  provisions  herein,  the  currency of an
outstanding  Borrowing may not be changed in connection  with any  conversion or
continuation of such Borrowing.

         SECTION 2.11. Repayment of Term Borrowings. (a) (i) Each Borrower shall
pay to the  Administrative  Agent, for the account of the Lenders,  on the dates
set  forth  below,  or if any  such  date is not a  Business  Day,  on the  next
succeeding  Business Day (each such date being a "Tranche A Term Loan  Repayment
Date"), a principal amount of the Tranche A Term Loans (as adjusted from time to
time pursuant to Sections 2.12(b) and 2.13(g)) equal to the percentage set


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forth below opposite such date multiplied by the aggregate  principal  amount of
all Tranche A Term Loans made to such Borrower  hereunder and outstanding on the
last  Tranche A Term Loan Closing  Date,  together in each case with accrued and
unpaid interest on the principal  amount to be paid to but excluding the date of
such payment:


Date                                              Percentage
- ----                                              ----------
June 30, 1999                                        4.00%
September 30, 1999                                   4.00%
December 31, 1999                                    4.00%
March 31, 2000                                       4.00%
June 30, 2000                                        4.00%
September 30, 2000                                   4.00%
December 31, 2000                                    4.00%
March 31, 2001                                       4.00%
June 30, 2001                                        5.25%
September 30, 2001                                   5.25%
December 31, 2001                                    5.25%
March 31, 2002                                       5.25%
June 30, 2002                                        5.25%
September 30, 2002                                   5.25%
December 31, 2002                                    5.25%
March 31, 2003                                       5.25%
June 30, 2003                                        6.50%
September 30, 2003                                   6.50%
December 31, 2003                                    6.50%
Tranche A Maturity Date                              6.50%

         (ii) Terex shall pay to the  Administrative  Agent,  for the account of
the Lenders, on the dates set forth below or, if any such date is not a Business
Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each such date being a "Tranche B Term
Loan  Repayment  Date"),  a  principal  amount of the  Tranche B Term  Loans (as
adjusted  from time to time pursuant to Sections  2.12(b) and 2.13(g))  equal to
the percentage  set forth below  opposite such date  multiplied by the aggregate
principal amount of all Tranche B Term Loans made on the Closing Date,  together
in each case with accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount to be paid
to but excluding the date of such payment:


Date                                              Percentage
- ----                                              ----------
June 30, 1998                                        0.25%
September 30, 1998                                   0.25%
December 31, 1998                                    0.25%
March 31, 1999                                       0.25%
June 30, 1999                                        0.25%


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Date                                              Percentage
- ----                                              ----------
June 30, 1998                                        0.25%
September 30, 1999                                   0.25%
December 31, 1999                                    0.25%
March 31, 2000                                       0.25%
June 30, 2000                                        0.25%
September 30, 2000                                   0.25%
December 31, 2000                                    0.25%
March 31, 2001                                       0.25%
June 30, 2001                                        0.25%
September 30, 2001                                   0.25%
December 31, 2001                                    0.25%
March 31, 2002                                       0.25%
June 30, 2002                                        0.25%
September 30, 2002                                   0.25%
December 31, 2002                                    0.25%
March 31, 2003                                       0.25%
June 30, 2003                                        0.25%
September 30, 2003                                   0.25%
December 31, 2003                                    0.25%
March 31, 2004                                       0.25%
June 30, 2004                                        23.5%
September 30, 2004                                   23.5%
December 31, 2004                                    23.5%
Tranche B Maturity Date                              23.5%

         (b) To the extent not  previously  paid,  all  Tranche A Term Loans and
Tranche B Term Loans shall be due and payable on the Tranche A Maturity Date and
Tranche B Matu  rity  Date,  respectively,  together  with  accrued  and  unpaid
interest  on the  principal  amount  to be paid  to but  excluding  the  date of
payment.

         (c) All  repayments  pursuant to this  Section 2.11 shall be subject to
Section 2.16, but shall otherwise be without premium or penalty.

         SECTION 2.12. Prepayment. (a) Each Borrower shall have the right at any
time and from time to time to prepay any  Borrowing,  in whole or in part,  upon
prior written or telecopy  notice (or  telephone  notice  promptly  confirmed by
written or  telecopy  notice) to the  Administrative  Agent (i) in the case of a
prepayment of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, given before 12:00 (noon), New York City
time (or, in the case of prepayment of an Alternative Currency Borrowing,  local
time of the  jurisdiction  of such  Alternative  Currency)  three  Business Days
before  such  prepayment  and (ii) in the case of a  prepayment  of ABR Loans or
Foreign  Base Rate Loans,  given before 1:00 p.m.  local time,  one Business Day
before such prepayment; provided, however, that each partial prepayment shall be
in an amount that is an integral multiple of $100,00 (or the Alternative


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Currency  Equivalent  thereof) and not less than  $2,500,000 (or the Alternative
Currency Equivalent thereof).

         (b) Optional  prepayments of Term Loans shall be allocated  against the
then-outstanding  Tranche A Term Loans and  Tranche B Term  Loans pro rata,  and
such  prepayments  shall be applied (i) first,  against the remaining  scheduled
installments of principal due in respect of the Tranche A Term Loans and Tranche
B Term Loans  under  Sections  2.11(a)(i)  and (ii),  respectively,  in the next
twelve  months in the order of maturity and (ii)  second,  pro rata against such
remaining scheduled installments of principal.

         (c) Each notice of prepayment shall specify the prepayment date and the
principal amount of each Borrowing (or portion thereof) to be prepaid,  shall be
irrevocable and shall commit the applicable Borrower to prepay such Borrowing by
the amount stated therein on the date stated therein. All prepayments under this
Section 2.12 shall be subject to Section 2.16 but otherwise  without  premium or
penalty. All prepayments under this Section 2.12 shall be accompanied by accrued
interest on the principal amount being prepaid to the date of payment.

         SECTION  2.13.  Mandatory   Prepayments.   (a)  In  the  event  of  any
termination of all the Revolving Credit  Commitments,  each Borrower shall repay
or prepay all its  outstanding  Revolving  Credit  Borrowings,  all  outstanding
Swingline  Loans  and all  outstanding  A/C  Fronted  Loans  on the date of such
termination.  In the event of any  partial  reduction  of the  Revolving  Credit
Commitments,  then at or  prior to the  effective  date of such  reduction,  the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Revolving Credit Lenders
of the Aggregate  Revolving  Credit Exposure after giving effect thereto.  If at
any time, as a result of such a partial reduction or termination, as a result of
fluctuations  in exchange  rates or otherwise,  the Aggregate  Revolving  Credit
Exposure would exceed the Total Revolving  Credit  Commitment or the Alternative
Currency Revolving Credit Exposure in any Alternative  Currency would exceed the
sublimit for such Alternative  Currency set forth on Schedule 2.01(b),  then the
Borrowers  shall (i) on the date of such  reduction or  termination of Revolving
Credit  Commitments or (ii) within three Business Day following  notice from the
Administrative  Agent of any such  fluctuation  in exchange  rate or  otherwise,
repay or prepay  Revolving  Credit  Borrowings,  Swingline  Loans or A/C Fronted
Loans (or a  combination  thereof) in an amount  sufficient  to  eliminate  such
excess.

         (b) Not later than the third  Business Day following the receipt of Net
Cash  Proceeds  in respect of any Asset Sale  (other than (i) any Asset Sale the
Net Cash  Proceeds of which are not greater than  $250,000 from any single event
or series of related events and (ii) Asset Sales the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds
of which are not  greater  than  $5,000,000  in any fiscal  year of Terex),  the
outstanding Term Loans shall be prepaid in accordance with Section 2.13(g) in an
aggregate principal amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds.

         (c) In the event and on each occasion that an Equity  Issuance  occurs,
then  substantially  simultaneously  with (and in any  event not later  than the
third  Business Day next  following) the receipt of Net Cash Proceeds in respect
of such Equity  Issuance,  outstanding Term Loans shall be prepaid in accordance
with Section 2.13(g) in an aggregate  principal amount equal to 100% of such Net
Cash Proceeds;  provided,  however, that no such prepayment shall be required if
(i) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most recent four fiscal
quarters for which financial  statements  shall have been delivered  pursuant to
Section  5.04(a) or (b), as  applicable,  shall be less than 3.00 to 1.00,  (ii)
Terex shall have received at least $150,000,000 in gross cash proceeds from


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the  issuance  of Senior  Subordinated  Notes  and shall  have used the Net Cash
Proceeds  thereof either to prepay Term Loans pursuant to Section  2.13(e) or to
finance the  Acquisition  or another  Permitted  Acquisition  or (iii) (A) Terex
shall  have  received  at least  $100,000,000  in gross cash  proceeds  from the
issuance of Senior  Subordinated Notes and shall have used the Net Cash Proceeds
thereof  to  prepay  Term  Loans  pursuant  to  Section   2.13(e)  and  (B)  the
Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most recent four
fiscal quarters for which financial  statements have been delivered  pursuant to
Section 5.04(a) or (b), as applicable, shall be less than 2.75 to 1.00.

         (d) No later  than the  earlier  of (i) 90 days  after  the end of each
fiscal year of Terex,  commencing  with the fiscal  year ending on December  31,
1998, and (ii) the date on which the financial  statements  with respect to such
fiscal year are delivered  pursuant to Section  5.04(a),  outstanding Term Loans
shall be prepaid in accordance  with Section  2.13(g) in an aggregate  principal
amount  equal  to 50% of  Excess  Cash  Flow for the  fiscal  year  then  ended;
provided, however, that no such prepayment shall be required if the Consolidated
Leverage  Ratio as of the end of such  fiscal  year  shall be less  than 3.85 to
1.00.

         (e) In the event that Terex or any  Subsidiary  shall  receive Net Cash
Proceeds  from (i) the issuance of any Senior  Subordinated  Notes or Additional
Subordinated  Notes or (ii) the issuance or incurrence of any other Indebtedness
for  money  borrowed  (other  than  Indebtedness  for money  borrowed  permitted
pursuant to Section 6.01), then,  substantially  simultaneously with (and in any
event not later than the third Business Day next  following) the receipt of such
Net Cash  Proceeds,  100% of such Net Cash Proceeds  shall be used either (i) to
fund  the  consideration  for the  Acquisition  or,  in the  case of the  Senior
Subordinated  Notes  or  Additional   Subordinated   Notes,   another  Permitted
Acquisition,  and/or (ii) to prepay  outstanding  Term Loans in accordance  with
Section 2.13(g) in an aggregate  principal amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash
Proceeds.

         (f) In the event that there  shall occur any  Casualty or  Condemnation
and, pursuant to the applicable Mortgage,  the Casualty Proceeds or Condemnation
Proceeds,  as the case may be, are required to be used to prepay the Term Loans,
then the  outstanding  Term Loans shall be prepaid in  accordance  with  Section
2.13(g) in an aggregate principal amount equal to 100% of such Casualty Proceeds
or Condemnation Proceeds, as the case may be.

         (g) Subject to paragraph (j) below, each prepayment of outstanding Term
Loans  required to be made  pursuant to any paragraph of this Section 2.13 shall
be made by all  Borrowers  of their  respective  Term  Loans pro rata  among the
then-outstanding  Tranche A Term Loans and Tranche B Term Loans, and, subject to
paragraph (j) below, shall be applied (i) first against the remaining  scheduled
installments  of principal  due in respect of Tranche A Term Loans and Tranche B
Term Loans under Sections 2.11(a)(i) and (ii), respectively,  in the next twelve
months in the order of maturity and (ii) second, pro rata against such remaining
scheduled installments of principal.

         (h) Terex shall  deliver to the  Administrative  Agent,  at the time of
each prepayment  required under this Section 2.13, (i) a certificate signed by a
Financial Officer of Terex setting forth in reasonable detail the calculation of
the amount of such prepayment and (ii) to the extent practicable, at least three
Business  Days'  prior  written  notice  of  such  prepayment.  Each  notice  of
prepayment  shall  specify  the  prepayment  date,  the Type of each Loan  being
prepaid  and the  principal  amount  of each  Loan (or  portion  thereof)  to be
prepaid. 


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All pre  payments  of  Borrowings  under this  Section  2.13 shall be subject to
Section 2.16, but shall otherwise be without premium or penalty.

         (i) To the extent possible consistent with Section 2.13(g),  amounts to
be applied  pursuant to this  Section 2.13 to the  prepayment  of Term Loans and
Revolving Loans shall be applied, as applicable, first to prepay outstanding ABR
Term  Loans and ABR  Revolving  Loans.  Any  amounts  remaining  after each such
application  shall,  at the  option of the  applicable  Borrower,  be applied to
prepay Eurocurrency Term Loans or Eurocurrency  Revolving Loans, as the case may
be, immediately and/or shall be deposited in the Pre payment Account (as defined
below).  The  Administrative  Agent  shall  apply  any  cash  deposited  in  the
Prepayment Account (i) allocable to Term Loans to prepay Eurocurrency Term Loans
and (ii) allocable to Revolving Loans to prepay Eurocurrency Revolving Loans, in
each  case on the last day of their  respective  Interest  Periods  (or,  at the
direction of such  Borrower,  on any earlier  date) until all  outstanding  Term
Loans or Revolving Loans, as the case may be, have been prepaid or until all the
allocable  cash on deposit  with respect to such Loans has been  exhausted.  For
purposes of this Agreement,  the term "Prepayment Account" shall mean an account
established  by such Borrower with the  Administrative  Agent and over which the
Administrative  Agent shall have exclusive  dominion and control,  including the
exclusive  right of withdrawal for application in accordance with this paragraph
(i). The  Administrative  Agent will,  at the request of such  Borrower,  invest
amounts on deposit in the  Prepayment  Account  in  Permitted  Investments  that
mature  prior  to the  last  day  of  the  applicable  Interest  Periods  of the
Eurocurrency Term Borrowings or Eurocurrency Revolving Borrowings to be prepaid,
as the case may be; provided,  however,  that (i) the Administrative Agent shall
not be required to make any investment that, in its sole judgment, would require
or cause the Administrative Agent to be in, or would result in any, violation of
any law,  statute,  rule or regulation and (ii) the  Administrative  Agent shall
have no obligation to invest amounts on deposit in the  Prepayment  Account if a
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Such Borrower
shall  indemnify  the  Administrative  Agent  for  any  losses  relating  to the
investments so that the amount  available to prepay  Eurocurrency  Borrowings on
the last day of the applicable  Interest Period is not less than the amount that
would have been available had no investments been made pursuant  thereto.  Other
than any interest earned on such investments  (which shall be for the account of
the  applicable  Borrower,  to the extent not  necessary  for the  prepayment of
Eurocurrency Loans in accordance with this Section 2.13), the Prepayment Account
shall not bear interest.  Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall
be deposited in the Prepayment Account and reinvested and disbursed as specified
above.  If the  maturity of the Loans has been  accelerated  pursuant to Article
VII, the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion,  apply all amounts on
deposit  in the  Prepayment  Account  to satisfy  any of the  Obligations.  Each
Borrower  hereby  grants to the  Administrative  Agent,  for its benefit and the
benefit of the Issuing Banks, the Swingline  Lender and the Lenders,  a security
interest in its Prepay ment Account to secure the  Obligations.  This  paragraph
(i) shall not be construed to alter the application required by Section 2.13(g).

         (j) Any  Tranche B Lender  may elect,  by notice to the  Administrative
Agent in writing (or by  telephone  or telecopy  promptly  confirmed in writing)
prior to 12:00 (noon), New York City time, at least three Business Days prior to
any  prepayment of Tranche B Term Loans  required to be made by any Borrower for
the account of such  Lender  pursuant to this  Section  2.13,  to cause all or a
portion of such  prepayment to be applied instead to prepay Tranche A Term Loans
in accordance  with paragraph (g) above.  Any such  prepayment of Tranche A Term
Loans shall be made by all Borrowers of their respective Tranche A Term Loans


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pro rata  among the then  outstanding  Tranche A Term Loans and in the order set
forth in Section 2.13(g).

         SECTION  2.14.  Reserve  Requirements;  Change  in  Circumstances.  (a)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if after the date of this
Agreement any change in applicable law or regulation or in the interpretation or
administration   thereof  by  any  Governmental   Authority   charged  with  the
interpretation  or  administration  thereof  (whether or not having the force of
law) shall change the basis of taxation of payments to any Lender or any Issuing
Bank of the  principal  of or interest on any  Eurocurrency  Loan or A/C Fronted
Fixed  Rate  Loan  made by such  Lender  or any  Fees or other  amounts  payable
hereunder  (other  than  changes in respect of taxes  imposed on the overall net
income of such Lender or such  Issuing  Bank by the  jurisdiction  in which such
Lender  or such  Issuing  Bank  has its  principal  office  or by any  political
subdivision  or  taxing  authority  therein),  or shall  impose,  modify or deem
applicable any reserve,  special deposit or similar  requirement  against assets
of,  deposits with or for the account of or credit extended by any Lender or any
Issuing  Bank  (except any such  reserve  requirement  which is reflected in the
Adjusted  LIBO Rate,  the Bank Bill Rate or the Italian  Fixed Rate, as the case
may be) or shall  impose  on such  Lender  or such  Issuing  Bank or the  London
interbank  market  (or other  relevant  interbank  market)  any other  condition
affecting this Agreement or  Eurocurrency  Loans or A/C Fronted Fixed Rate Loans
made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or  participation  therein,  and the
result of any of the  foregoing  shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or
such Issuing Bank of making or maintaining any Eurocurrency  Loan or A/C Fronted
Fixed Rate Loan or increase the cost to any Lender of issuing or maintaining any
Letter of Credit or purchasing  or  maintaining  a  participation  therein or to
reduce the  amount of any sum  received  or  receivable  by such  Lender or such
Issuing Bank  hereunder  (whether of  principal,  interest or  otherwise)  by an
amount  deemed by such  Lender or such  Issuing  Bank to be  material,  then the
Borrowers will pay to such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, upon
demand such additional  amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such
Issuing  Bank,  as the  case may be,  for  such  additional  costs  incurred  or
reduction suffered.

         (b) If any Lender or any Issuing  Bank shall have  determined  that the
adoption  after  the date  hereof of any law,  rule,  regulation,  agreement  or
guideline regarding capital adequacy, or any change after the date hereof in any
such law,  rule,  regulation,  agreement or guideline  (whether such law,  rule,
regulation, agreement or guideline has been adopted) or in the interpretation or
administration   thereof  by  any  Governmental   Authority   charged  with  the
interpretation  or administration  thereof,  or compliance by any Lender (or any
lending  office of such  Lender)  or any  Issuing  Bank or any  Lender's  or any
Issuing Bank's holding company with any request or directive  regarding  capital
adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental  Authority
has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such  Lender's or
such Issuing  Bank's  capital or on the capital of such Lender's or such Issuing
Bank's holding company,  if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans
made or  participations  in Letters of Credit  purchased by such Lender pursuant
hereto or the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank pursuant hereto to a
level below that which such Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lender's or such
Issuing Bank's holding  company could have achieved but for such  applicability,
adoption,  change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender's or such
Issuing Bank's policies and the policies of such Lender's or such Issuing Bank's
holding  company with respect to capital  adequacy) by an amount  deemed by such
Lender or such Issuing Bank to be material, then from time to time the Borrowers
shall pay to such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such


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additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Issuing Bank
or such Lender's or such Issuing Bank's  holding  company for any such reduction
suffered.

         (c) A  certificate  of a Lender or an Issuing  Bank  setting  forth the
amount or amounts  necessary to  compensate  such Lender or such Issuing Bank or
its holding company,  as applicable,  as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) above
shall be delivered to the  Borrowers  and shall be  conclusive  absent  manifest
error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender or such Issuing Bank the amount shown
as due on any such certificate  delivered by it within 10 days after its receipt
of the same.

         (d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or any  Issuing  Bank to
demand  compensation for any increased costs or reduction in amounts received or
receivable  or reduction in return on capital  shall not  constitute a waiver of
such  Lender's or such  Issuing  Bank's right to demand such  compensation.  The
protection  of this  Section  shall be available to each Lender and each Issuing
Bank regardless of any possible  contention of the invalidity or inapplicability
of the law, rule, regulation,  agreement, guideline or other change or condition
that shall have occurred or been imposed.

         SECTION  2.15.  Change  in  Legality.  (a)  Notwithstanding  any  other
provision of this Agreement, if, after the date hereof, any change in any law or
regulation  or in  the  interpretation  thereof  by any  Governmental  Authority
charged with the administration or interpretation thereof shall make it unlawful
for any Lender to make or maintain  any  Eurocurrency  Loan or to give effect to
its obligations as contemplated  hereby with respect to any  Eurocurrency  Loan,
then, by written notice to the Borrowers and to the Administrative Agent:

                  (i) such Lender may declare that  Eurocurrency  Loans will not
         thereafter  (for the  duration  of such  unlawfulness)  be made by such
         Lender  hereunder (or be continued for additional  Interest Periods and
         ABR Loans and  Foreign  Base Rate Loans will not  thereafter  (for such
         duration) be converted into Eurocurrency Loans),  whereupon any request
         for a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing  (or to  convert an ABR  Borrowing  or a
         Foreign  Base Rate Loan to a  Eurocurrency  Borrowing  or to continue a
         Eurocurrency  Borrowing for an additional Interest Period) shall, as to
         such Lender  only,  be deemed a request for an ABR Loan (in the case of
         Dollar  Loans) or Foreign  Base Rate Loans (in the case of  Alternative
         Currency Loans) (or a request to continue an ABR Loan or a Foreign Base
         Rate Loan as such for an  additional  Interest  Period or to  convert a
         Eurocurrency  Loan into an ABR Loan or a Foreign Base Rate Loan, as the
         case may be), unless such declaration shall be subsequently  withdrawn;
         and

                     (ii)  such   Lender  may  require   that  all   outstanding
         Eurocurrency Loans made by it be converted to ABR Loans (in the case of
         Dollar  Loans) or Foreign  Base Rate Loans (in the case of  Alternative
         Currency  Loans) in which  event all such  Eurocurrency  Loans shall be
         automatically converted to such ABR Loans or Foreign Base Rate Loans as
         of the  effective  date of such  notice as provided  in  paragraph  (b)
         below.

In the event any Lender shall  exercise its rights under (i) or (ii) above,  all
payments and  prepayments of principal that would otherwise have been applied to
repay the  Eurocurrency  Loans that  would have been made by such  Lender or the
converted Eurocurrency Loans of such Lender shall instead be applied to repay


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ABR Loans made by such Lender in lieu of, or resulting  from the  conversion of,
such Eurocurrency Loans.

         (b) For purposes of this Section  2.15, a notice to Terex by any Lender
shall be effective as to each  Eurocurrency Loan made by such Lender, if lawful,
on the last day of the Interest Period currently applicable to such Eurocurrency
Loan;  in all other cases such notice  shall be effective on the date of receipt
by Terex.

         SECTION 2.16.  Indemnity.  Each Borrower  shall  indemnify  each Lender
against  any  loss or  expense,  including  any  break-funding  cost or any loss
sustained in converting  between any  Alternative  Currency and dollars,  as the
case may be, that such Lender may sustain or incur as a  consequence  of (a) any
event, other than a default by such Lender in the performance of its obligations
hereunder, which results in (i) such Lender receiving or being deemed to receive
any amount on account of the principal of any  Eurocurrency  Loan or A/C Fronted
Fixed Rate Loan prior to the end of the Interest Period in effect therefor, (ii)
the conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan or A/C Fronted Fixed Rate Loan to an ABR
Loan, or Fronted Base Rate Loan, respectively, or the conversion of the Interest
Period with respect to any Eurocurrency  Loan or A/C Fronted Fixed Rate Loan, in
each case other than on the last day of the Interest Period in effect  therefor,
or (iii) any Eurocurrency Loan or A/C Fronted Fixed Rate Loan to be made by such
Lender  (including  any  Eurocurrency  Loan or A/C Fronted Fixed Rate Loan to be
made pursuant to a conversion or continuation under Section 2.10) not being made
after  notice of such Loan  shall  have been  given by the  applicable  Borrower
hereunder  (any of the events  referred  to in this  clause  (a) being  called a
"Breakage  Event") or (b) any default in the making of any payment or prepayment
required to be made  hereunder.  In the case of any  Breakage  Event,  such loss
shall include an amount equal to the excess,  as  reasonably  determined by such
Lender,  of (i) its cost of  obtaining  funds for the  Eurocurrency  Loan or A/C
Fronted  Fixed  Rate Loan that is the  subject  of such  Breakage  Event for the
period  from the  date of such  Breakage  Event to the last day of the  Interest
Period in effect (or that would have been in effect) for such Loan over (ii) the
amount of interest likely to be realized by such Lender in redeploying the funds
released or not utilized by reason of such  Breakage  Event for such  period.  A
certificate  of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts which such Lender
is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 2.16, together with a reasonably
detailed calculation thereof,  shall be delivered to the applicable Borrower and
shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

         SECTION  2.17.  Pro Rata  Treatment.  Except as provided  below in this
Section  2.17 with  respect to Swingline  Loans and as required  under  Sections
2.13(j) and 2.15, each Borrowing, each payment or prepayment of principal of any
Borrowing,  each payment of interest on the Loans,  each payment of the Facility
Fees,  each  reduction  of the Term Loan  Commitments  or the  Revolving  Credit
Commitments  and each  conversion  of any  Borrowing to or  continuation  of any
Borrowing  as a  Borrowing  of any Type  shall be  allocated  pro rata among the
Lenders in accordance with their respective applicable  Commitments (or, if such
Commitments  shall  have  expired or been  terminated,  in  accordance  with the
respective  principal  amounts of their  outstanding  Loans).  For  purposes  of
determining  the available  Revolving  Credit  Commitments of the Lenders at any
time,  each  outstanding  Swingline  Loan shall be deemed to have  utilized  the
Revolving Credit Commitments of the Lenders (including those Lenders which shall
not have made  Swingline  Loans)  pro rata in  accordance  with such  respective
Revolving Credit Commitments. Each Lender agrees that in computing such Lender's
portion of any Borrowing to be made hereunder,  the Administrative Agent may, in
its discretion, round each Lender's percentage of such Borrowing to the next


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higher or lower whole dollar or applicable Alternative Currency amount.

         SECTION 2.18. Sharing of Setoffs.  Each Lender agrees that if it shall,
through the exercise of a right of banker's lien, setoff or counterclaim against
any  Borrower  or any other Loan Party,  or  pursuant  to a secured  claim under
Section 506 of Title 11 of the United States Code or other  security or interest
arising from, or in lieu of, such secured  claim,  received by such Lender under
any applicable bankruptcy,  insolvency or other similar law or otherwise,  or by
any other means,  obtain payment  (voluntary or  involuntary)  in respect of any
Loan or Loans or L/C  Disbursement  as a result  of which the  unpaid  principal
portion of its Tranche A Term Loans,  Tranche B Term Loans and  Revolving  Loans
and  participations  in  L/C  Disbursements  and  A/C  Fronted  Loans  shall  be
proportionately  less than the unpaid  principal  portion of the  Tranche A Term
Loans,  Tranche B Term  Loans and  Revolving  Loans  and  participations  in L/C
Disbursements  and A/C  Fronted  Loans of any other  Lender,  it shall be deemed
simultaneously to have purchased from such other Lender at face value, and shall
promptly pay to such other Lender the purchase price for, a participation in the
Tranche A Term Loans,  Tranche B Term Loans and Revolving Loans and L/C Exposure
and A/C Fronted  Exposure,  as the case may be of such other Lender, so that the
aggregate unpaid  principal  amount of the Tranche A Term Loans,  Tranche B Term
Loans  and  Revolving  Loans  and L/C  Exposure  and A/C  Fronted  Exposure  and
participations in Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche B Term Loans and Revolving Loans
and L/C  Exposure and A/C Fronted  Exposure  held by each Lender shall be in the
same proportion to the aggregate  unpaid  principal amount of all Tranche A Term
Loans, Tranche B Term Loans and Revolving Loans and L/C Exposure and A/C Fronted
Exposure then  outstanding as the principal  amount of its Tranche A Term Loans,
Tranche  B Term  Loans and  Revolving  Loans and L/C  Exposure  and A/C  Fronted
Exposure  prior to such exercise of banker's  lien,  setoff or  counterclaim  or
other event was to the principal  amount of all Tranche A Term Loans,  Tranche B
Term  Loans  and  Revolving  Loans and L/C  Exposure  and A/C  Fronted  Exposure
outstanding  prior to such exercise of banker's lien,  setoff or counterclaim or
other  event;  provided,  however,  that if any such  purchase or  purchases  or
adjustments  shall be made pursuant to this Section 2.18 and the payment  giving
rise  thereto  shall  thereafter  be  recovered,  such  purchase or purchases or
adjustments  shall be rescinded to the extent of such  recovery and the purchase
price or prices or adjustment restored without interest. Each Borrower expressly
consents to the  foregoing  arrangements  and agrees  that any Lender  holding a
participation  in a Term  Loan or  Revolving  Loan or L/C  Disbursement  and A/C
Fronted Loan deemed to have been so purchased may exercise any and all rights of
banker's lien,  setoff or counterclaim  with respect to any and all moneys owing
by such Borrower to such Lender by reason thereof as fully as if such Lender had
made a Loan directly to such Borrower in the amount of such participation.

         SECTION  2.19.  Payments.  (a) Each  Borrower  shall make each  payment
(including  principal of or interest on any Borrowing or any L/C Disbursement or
any Fees or other  amounts)  hereunder  and under any other Loan Document from a
Payment  Location in the United States or the  jurisdiction  of any  Alternative
Currency prior to (i) 1:00 p.m., New York City time on the date when due, in the
case of any amount payable in dollars, and (ii) 12:00 (noon), local time of such
other  jurisdiction,  on the date when due, in the case of any amount payable in
any Alternative  Currency, in each case, in immediately available funds, without
setoff, defense or counterclaim.  Each such payment (other than (i) Issuing Bank
Fees, which shall be paid directly to applicable Issuing Bank, (ii) principal of
and interest on Swingline  Loans,  which shall be paid directly to the Swingline
Lender except as otherwise provided in Section 2.22 (e) and (iii) A/C Fronting


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Fees,  which shall be paid directly to the applicable A/C Fronting Lender except
as otherwise provided in Section 2.24(e)) shall be made to such account as shall
from time to time be specified in a writing delivered to Terex and each Borrower
by the Administrative  Agent.  Except as provided in Section 2.24 (Conversion of
A/C Fronted Loans) with respect to defaulted A/C Fronted Loans,  all Alternative
Currency  Loans  hereunder  shall be  denominated  and  made,  and all  payments
hereunder  or under any other Loan  Document  in  respect  thereof  (whether  of
principal,  interest,  fees or  otherwise)  shall be made,  in such  Alternative
Currency.  All Dollar Loans  hereunder  shall be  denominated  and made, and all
payments of principal  and  interest,  Fees or otherwise  hereunder or under any
other Loan  Document in respect  thereof  shall be made,  in dollars,  except as
otherwise  expressly provided herein.  Unless otherwise agreed by the applicable
Borrower  and each Lender to receive  any such  payment,  all other  amounts due
hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be payable in dollars.

         (b)  Whenever  any payment  (including  principal of or interest on any
Borrowing  or any Fees or other  amounts)  hereunder  or under  any  other  Loan
Document  shall  become due, or otherwise  would  occur,  on a day that is not a
Business Day, such payment may be made on the next succeeding  Business Day, and
such  extension  of time shall in such case be  included in the  computation  of
interest or Fees, if applicable.

         SECTION  2.20.  Taxes.  (a) Any and all payments by or on behalf of any
Borrower or any Loan Party (or,  with  respect to  payments  by an A/C  Fronting
Lender of the A/C Participation Fee, an A/C Fronting Lender) hereunder and under
any other Loan Document shall be made, in accordance with Section 2.19, free and
clear of and without deduction for any and all current or future taxes,  levies,
imposts,  deductions,  charges  or  withholdings  imposed  by  any  Governmental
Authority in the United States, the jurisdiction of any Alternative  Currency or
the  jurisdiction  of any Payment  Location,  and all  liabilities  with respect
thereto,   excluding  (i)  income  taxes  imposed  on  the  net  income  of  the
Administrative  Agent,  any  Lender or an  Issuing  Bank (or any  transferee  or
assignee  thereof,   including  a  participation   holder  (any  such  entity  a
"Transferee"))  and  (ii)  franchise  taxes  imposed  on the net  income  of the
Administrative  Agent,  any Lender or an Issuing Bank (or  Transferee),  in each
case by the jurisdiction under the laws of which the Administrative  Agent, such
Lender  or an  Issuing  Bank  (or  Transferee)  is  organized  or any  political
subdivision thereof (all such nonexcluded taxes,  levies,  imposts,  deductions,
charges,  withholdings  and  liabilities,  collectively or  individually,  being
called  "Taxes").  If any Borrower or any Loan Party shall be required to deduct
any Taxes  from or in respect of any sum  payable  hereunder  or under any other
Loan Document to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or an Issuing Bank (or any
Transferee),  (i)  the  sum  payable  shall  be  increased  by  the  amount  (an
"additional  amount")  necessary so that after  making all  required  deductions
(including  deductions  applicable to additional sums payable under this Section
2.20)  the   Administrative   Agent,  such  Lender  or  such  Issuing  Bank  (or
Transferee),  as the case may be,  shall  receive an amount  equal to the sum it
would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such Borrower or such
Loan Party shall make such deductions and (iii) such Borrower or such Loan Party
shall pay the full amount  deducted to the  relevant  Governmental  Authority in
accordance  with applicable law. If any A/C Fronting Lender shall be required to
deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any A/C  Participation  Fee, Terex or the
applicable  Borrower  shall pay to the  applicable  Revolving  Credit Lender the
"additional amount" referred to in the preceding sentence.


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         (b)  In  addition,   each  Borrower  agrees  to  pay  to  the  relevant
Governmental  Authority in accordance  with applicable law any current or future
stamp, documentary,  excise, transfer, sales, property or similar taxes, charges
or levies (including,  without limitation,  mortgage recording taxes and similar
fees)  that  arise  from any  payment  made  hereunder  or under any other  Loan
Document or from the execution,  delivery,  enforcement or  registration  of, or
otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document  imposed by
any  Governmental  Authority  in the  United  States,  the  jurisdiction  of any
Alternative  Currency  or the  jurisdiction  of  any  Payment  Location  ("Other
Taxes").

         (c) Each Borrower will indemnify the Administrative  Agent, each Lender
and each  Issuing  Bank (or  Transferee)  for the full amount of Taxes and Other
Taxes paid by the  Administrative  Agent,  such Lender or such  Issuing Bank (or
Transferee),  as the  case  may be,  and  any  liability  (including  penalties,
interest and  expenses  (including  reasonable  attorney's  fees and  expenses))
arising  therefrom or with respect  thereto,  whether or not such Taxes or Other
Taxes were correctly or legally asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.
A  certificate  as to the amount of such  payment or  liability  prepared by the
Administrative  Agent,  a Lender  or an  Issuing  Bank (or  Transferee),  or the
Administrative  Agent on its  behalf,  absent  manifest  error,  shall be final,
conclusive  and binding for all  purposes.  Such  indemnification  shall be made
within 30 days after the date the Administrative Agent, any Lender or an Issuing
Bank (or Transferee), as the case may be, makes written demand therefor.

         (d) As soon as  practicable  after the date of any  payment of Taxes or
Other Taxes by any Borrower or any other Loan Party to the relevant Governmental
Authority,  such  Borrower  or  such  other  Loan  Party  will  deliver  to  the
Administrative  Agent, at its address  referred to in Section 9.01, the original
or  a  certified  copy  of a  receipt  issued  by  such  Governmental  Authority
evidencing payment thereof.

         (e) Each Lender (or  Transferee)  that is organized under the laws of a
jurisdiction  other than the United States, any State thereof or the District of
Columbia  (a  "Non-U.S.  Lender")  that is  entitled to an  exemption  from,  or
reduction of,  withholding  tax under the law of the  jurisdiction  in which any
Borrower is located,  or any treaty to which such  jurisdiction is a party, with
respect to payments by such  Borrower  under this  Agreement  and the other Loan
Documents  shall  deliver to such  Borrower  (with a copy to the  Administrative
Agent),  at the  time or times  prescribed  by  applicable  law,  such  properly
completed and executed documentation  prescribed by applicable law or reasonably
requested  by such  Borrower  as will permit  such  payments to be made  without
withholding  or at a reduced  rate;  provided  that  such  Non-U.S.  Lender  has
received  written notice from such Borrower  advising it of the  availability of
such  exemption or reduction and containing  all  applicable  documentation.  In
addition,  each Non-U.S.  Lender shall deliver such documentation  promptly upon
the obsolescence or invalidity of any documentation previously delivered by such
Non-U.S. Lender.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.20(e), a
Non-U.S.  Lender shall not be required to deliver any documentation  pursuant to
this Section 2.20(e) that such Non-U.S. Lender is not legally able to deliver.

         (f) No Borrower  shall be required to indemnify any Non-U.S.  Lender or
to pay any  additional  amounts  to any  Non-U.S.  Lender,  in respect of United
States  Federal  withholding  tax pursuant to paragraph  (a) or (c) above to the
extent that (i) the obligation to withhold amounts with respect to United States
Federal  withholding  tax  existed  and  would  apply to  payments  made to such
Non-U.S. Lender on the date such Non-U.S. Lender became a party to this


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Agreement (or, in the case of a Transferee  that is a participation  holder,  on
the date such  participation  holder  became a  Transferee  hereunder)  or, with
respect to payments  to a New  Lending  Office,  the date such  Non-U.S.  Lender
designated  such New Lending Office with respect to a Loan;  provided,  however,
that this  paragraph  (f) shall not apply (x) to any  Transferee  or New Lending
Office  that  becomes  a  Transferee  or New  Lending  Office  as a result of an
assignment,  participation,  transfer or designation  made at the request of any
Borrower and (y) to the extent the indemnity  payment or additional  amounts any
Transferee, or any Lender (or Transferee),  acting through a New Lending Office,
would be  entitled  to receive  (without  regard to this  paragraph  (f)) do not
exceed the indemnity  payment or  additional  amounts that the person making the
assignment,  participation  or  transfer  to  such  Transferee,  or  Lender  (or
Transferee)  making the designation of such New Lending Office,  would have been
entitled to receive in the absence of such assignment,  participation,  transfer
or designation or (ii) the obligation to pay such  additional  amounts would not
have  arisen  but for a failure  by such  Non-U.S.  Lender  to  comply  with the
provisions of paragraph (e) above.

         (g) Nothing  contained in this Section 2.20 shall require any Lender or
an  Issuing  Bank  (or  any  Transferee)  or the  Administrative  Agent  to make
available any of its tax returns (or any other  information  that it deems to be
confidential or proprietary).

         SECTION 2.21.  Assignment of Commitments  Under Certain  Circumstances;
Duty to Mitigate.  (a) In the event (i) any Lender or an Issuing Bank delivers a
certificate requesting compensation pursuant to Section 2.14, (ii) any Lender or
an  Issuing  Bank  delivers  a notice  described  in  Section  2.15 or (iii) any
Borrower is required  to pay any  additional  amount to any Lender or an Issuing
Bank or any  Governmental  Authority on account of any Lender or an Issuing Bank
pursuant to Section  2.20,  such  Borrower  may, at its sole  expense and effort
(including  with respect to the  processing and  recordation  fee referred to in
Section  9.04(b)),  upon  notice  to such  Lender or such  Issuing  Bank and the
Administrative  Agent,  require such Lender or such Issuing Bank to transfer and
assign,  without  recourse (in accordance  with and subject to the  restrictions
contained in Section 9.04), all of its interests,  rights and obligations  under
this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such assigned obligations (which
assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such  assignment);  provided
that (x) such assignment  shall not conflict with any law, rule or regulation or
order of any court or other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction, (y) such
Borrower  shall have  received the prior written  consent of the  Administrative
Agent (and, if a Revolving Credit  Commitment is being assigned,  of the Issuing
Banks  and the  Swingline  Lender),  which  consent  shall not  unreasonably  be
withheld, and (z) such Borrower or such assignee shall have paid to the affected
Lender or Issuing Bank in  immediately  available  funds (and in the currency or
currencies  in which payment would be required if all amounts were to be paid by
such  Borrower)  an amount  equal to the sum of the  principal  of and  interest
accrued  to  the  date  of  such  payment  on  the  outstanding   Loans  or  L/C
Disbursements of such Lender or such Issuing Bank,  respectively,  plus all Fees
and other  amounts  accrued for the account of such Lender or such  Issuing Bank
hereunder (including any amounts under Section 2.14 and Section 2.16);  provided
further that, if prior to any such transfer and assignment the  circumstances or
event  that  resulted  in  such  Lender's  or  such  Issuing  Bank's  claim  for
compensation under Section 2.14 or notice under Section 2.15 or the amounts paid
pursuant to Section 2.20, as the case may be, cease to cause such Lender or such
Issuing Bank to suffer  increased  costs or  reductions  in amounts  received or
receivable or reduction in return on capital,  or cease to have the consequences
specified in Section  2.15,  or cease to result in amounts  being  payable under
Section  2.20,  as the case may be (including as a result of any action taken by
such Lender or such Issuing Bank pursuant to paragraph (b) below), or it such


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Lender or such Issuing Bank shall waive its right to claim further  compensation
under Section 2.14 in respect of such  circumstances  or event or shall withdraw
its notice under Section 2.15 or shall waive its right to further payments under
Section 2.20 in respect of such circumstances or event, as the case may be, then
such Lender or such  Issuing Bank shall not  thereafter  be required to make any
such transfer and assignment hereunder.

         (b) If (i) any Lender or an Issuing  Bank  shall  request  compensation
under  Section  2.14,  (ii) any  Lender or an  Issuing  Bank  delivers  a notice
described  in  Section  2.15  or  (iii)  any  Borrower  is  required  to pay any
additional amount to any Lender or an Issuing Bank or any Governmental Authority
on account of any Lender or an Issuing Bank, pursuant to Section 2.20, then such
Lender or such  Issuing  Bank  shall use  reasonable  efforts  (which  shall not
require  such  Lender  or such  Issuing  Bank to incur an  unreimbursed  loss or
unreimbursed cost or expense or otherwise take any action  inconsistent with its
internal policies or legal or regulatory restrictions or suffer any disadvantage
or  burden  deemed  by it to be  significant)  (x) to file  any  certificate  or
document  reasonably  requested in writing by such Borrower or (y) to assign its
rights and delegate and  transfer  its  obligations  hereunder to another of its
offices,  branches or affiliates,  if such filing or assignment would materially
reduce its claims for  compensation  under Section 2.14 or enable it to withdraw
its notice pursuant to Section 2.15 or would  materially  reduce amounts payable
pursuant to Section 2.20, as the case may be, in the future. Terex hereby agrees
to pay all reasonable  costs and expenses  incurred by any Lender or any Issuing
Bank in connection with any such filing or assignment, delegation and transfer.

         SECTION 2.22. Swingline Loans. (a) Swingline Commitment. Subject to the
terms and conditions and relying upon the  representations and warranties herein
set forth,  the Swingline  Lender agrees to make loans, in dollars,  to Terex at
any time and from  time to time on and  after  the  Closing  Date and  until the
earlier  of the  Revolving  Credit  Maturity  Date  and the  termination  of the
Revolving  Credit  Commitments  in  accordance  with  the  terms  hereof,  in an
aggregate  principal  amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i)
the aggregate  principal amount of all Swingline Loans exceeding  $10,000,000 in
the  aggregate or (ii) the Aggregate  Revolving  Credit  Exposure,  after giving
effect to any Swingline Loan,  exceeding the Total Revolving Credit  Commitment.
Each Swingline Loan shall be in a principal amount that is an integral  multiple
of $250,000. The Swingline Commitments may be terminated or reduced from time to
time as provided herein.  Within the foregoing limits,  Terex may borrow, pay or
prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans hereunder,  subject to the terms, conditions
and limitations set forth herein.

         (b) Swingline Loans.  Terex shall notify the Swingline  Lender,  with a
copy to the  Administrative  Agent, by telecopy,  or by telephone  (confirmed by
telecopy),  not  later  than 2:00  p.m.,  New York  City  time,  on the day of a
proposed Swingline Loan. Such notice shall be delivered on a Business Day, shall
be irrevocable and shall refer to this Agreement and shall specify the requested
date (which shall be a Business Day) and amount of such Swingline Loan.

         (c) Prepayment. Terex shall have the right at any time and from time to
time to prepay any Swingline  Loan, in whole or in part,  upon giving written or
telecopy notice (or telephone notice promptly confirmed by written,  or telecopy
notice) to the  Swingline  Lender and to the  Administrative  Agent  before 1:00
p.m.,  New York City time, on the date of  prepayment at the Swingline  Lender's
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Swingline Loans shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the principal amount
being repaid to the date of payment.

         (d) Interest.  Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan and, subject to
the  provisions  of Section  2.07,  shall bear  interest  as provided in Section
2.06(a).

         (e)  Participations.  If Terex does not fully repay a Swingline Loan on
or prior to the  last day of the  Interest  Period  with  respect  thereto,  the
Swingline Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent thereof by 2:00 p.m., New
York City time (by telecopy or by  telephone,  confirmed  in  writing),  and the
Administrative  Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender thereof
(by  telecopy  or by  telephone,  confirmed  in  writing)  and of its  Pro  Rata
Percentage  of such  Swingline  Loan.  Upon such  notice but without any further
action,  the Swingline  Lender hereby agrees to grant to each  Revolving  Credit
Lender,  and each  Revolving  Credit  Lender  hereby  agrees to acquire from the
Swingline Lender, a participation in such defaulted Swingline Loan equal to such
Revolving Credit Lender's Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate  principal amount
of  such  defaulted  Swingline  Loan.  In  furtherance  of the  foregoing,  each
Revolving  Credit Lender hereby  absolutely  and  unconditionally  agrees,  upon
receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the
account  of the  Swingline  Lender,  such  Revolving  Credit  Lender's  Pro Rata
Percentage  of each  Swingline  Loan  that is not  repaid on the last day of the
Interest Period with respect thereto.  Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges
and agrees that its  obligation  to acquire  participations  in Swingline  Loans
pursuant  to this  paragraph  is  absolute  and  unconditional  and shall not be
affected  by  any   circumstance   whatsoever,   including  the  occurrence  and
continuance  of a Default  or an Event of  Default,  and that each such  payment
shall  be  made  without  any  offset,   abatement,   withholding  or  reduction
whatsoever.  Each Revolving Credit Lender shall comply with its obligation under
this  paragraph by wire transfer of  immediately  available  funds,  in the same
manner as  provided  in  Section  2.02(c)  with  respect  to Loans  made by such
Revolving Credit Lender (and Section 2.02(c) shall apply,  mutatis mutandis,  to
the payment  obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders) and the Administrative
Agent shall  promptly pay to the Swingline  Lender the amounts so received by it
from the Revolving Credit Lenders.  The Administrative  Agent shall notify Terex
of any  participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph
and  thereafter  payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the
Administrative  Agent and not to the Swingline  Lender.  Any amounts received by
the  Swingline  Lender from Terex (or other party on behalf of Terex) in respect
of a Swingline  Loan after receipt by the Swingline  Lender of the proceeds of a
sale of participations  therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative
Agent; any such amounts received by the  Administrative  Agent shall be promptly
remitted by the Administrative  Agent to the Revolving Credit Lenders that shall
have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender,
as their  interests may appear.  The purchase of  participations  in a Swingline
Loan pursuant to this  paragraph  shall not relieve Terex (or other party liable
for obligations of Terex) of any default in the payment thereof.

         SECTION  2.23.  Letters  of  Credit.  (a)  Subject  to  the  terms  and
conditions set forth herein,  (i) each of the Existing  Letters of Credit shall,
upon the initial  funding of Loans on the  Closing  Date and without any further
action on the part of the applicable Issuing Bank or any other person, be deemed
for all  purposes  to have been  issued by the  applicable  Issuing  Bank on the
Closing Date as a Letter of Credit  hereunder  and (ii) any Borrower may request
the  issuance of a Letter of Credit for its own  account,  in a form  reasonably
acceptable to the  Administrative  Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, at any
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effect.  This Section  shall not be construed  to impose an  obligation  upon an
Issuing Bank to issue any Letter of Credit that is  inconsistent  with the terms
and conditions of this Agreement.

         (b)  Notice  of  Issuance,   Amendment,   Renewal,  Extension;  Certain
Conditions. In order to request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or to amend,
renew or extend an existing  Letter of Credit),  the  applicable  Borrower shall
hand deliver or telecopy to the applicable  Issuing Bank and the  Administrative
Agent  (three  Business  Days in  advance  of the  requested  date of  issuance,
amendment,  renewal  or  extension,  or such  shorter  period as the  applicable
Borrower,  the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank shall agree)
a notice  requesting  the  issuance of a Letter of Credit,  or  identifying  the
Letter of Credit to be  amended,  renewed  or  extended,  the date of  issuance,
amendment,  renewal or extension,  the date on which such Letter of Credit is to
expire (which shall comply with  paragraph  (c) below),  the amount and currency
(which must be dollars or an Alternative Currency) of such Letter of Credit, the
name and address of the beneficiary  thereof and such other information as shall
be  necessary  to prepare  such  Letter of Credit.  A Letter of Credit  shall be
issued,  amended,  renewed or extended  only if, and upon  issuance,  amendment,
renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the  applicable  Borrower shall be
deemed to represent  and warrant  that,  after giving  effect to such  issuance,
amendment,   renewal  or  extension  (A)  the  L/C  Exposure  shall  not  exceed
$35,000,000,  (B) the Aggregate  Revolving  Credit Exposure shall not exceed the
Total Revolving  Credit  Commitment and (C) the Alternative  Currency  Revolving
Credit  Exposure with respect to any  Alternative  Currency shall not exceed the
sublimit for such Alternative Currency set forth in Schedule 2.01(b).

         (c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at the close of
business on the  earlier of the date one year after the date of the  issuance of
such  Letter of  Credit  and the date that is five  Business  Days  prior to the
Revolving  Credit  Maturity  Date,  unless such Letter of Credit  expires by its
terms on an earlier date.

         (d)  Participations.  By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or, in the
case of the Existing Letters of Credit, deemed issuance) and without any further
action on the part of such Issuing Bank or the Lenders,  the applicable  Issuing
Bank hereby grants to each Revolving Credit Lender,  and each such Lender hereby
acquires from the  applicable  Issuing Bank, a  participation  in such Letter of
Credit  equal to such  Lender's  Pro Rata  Percentage  of the  aggregate  amount
available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit,  effective  upon the issuance
of such Letter of Credit.  In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing,
each Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay
to the  Administrative  Agent,  for the account of the applicable  Issuing Bank,
such Lender's Pro Rata Percentage of each L/C Disbursement  made by such Issuing
Bank and not reimbursed by the applicable  Borrower (or, if applicable,  another
party pursuant to its  obligations  under any other Loan Document)  forthwith on
the date due as provided in Section 2.02(f) and in the same currency as such L/C
Disbursement.  Each  Revolving  Credit Lender  acknowledges  and agrees that its
obligation to acquire  participations  pursuant to this  paragraph in respect of
Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance  whatsoever,  including the occurrence and continuance of a Default
or an Event of Default or the fact that, as a result of fluctuations in exchange
rates,  such Revolving  Credit  Lender's  Revolving  Credit Exposure at any time
might exceed its Revolving Credit Commitment at such time (in which case Section
2.13(a)  would  apply),  and that each such  payment  shall be made  without any
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         (e)  Reimbursement.  If an Issuing Bank shall make any L/C Disbursement
in respect of a Letter of Credit denominated in dollars, the applicable Borrower
shall pay to the  Administrative  Agent an amount equal to such L/C Disbursement
not later than two hours after such Borrower shall have received notice from the
applicable  Issuing  Bank that  payment of such draft will be made,  or, if such
Borrower  shall have received  such notice later than 10:00 a.m.,  New York City
time, on any Business Day, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
immediately  following  Business  Day.  If an  Issuing  Bank  shall make any L/C
Disbursement  in respect of a Letter of Credit  denominated  in any  Alternative
Currency,  the  applicable  Borrower  shall pay to the  Administrative  Agent an
amount  equal to such L/C  Disbursement  not  later  than two hours  after  such
Borrower  shall have  received  notice  from the  applicable  Issuing  Bank that
payment of such draft will be made,  or, if such  Borrower  shall have  received
such notice later than 10:00 a.m.,  London time,  on any Business Day, not later
than 10:00 a.m., London time, on the immediately following Business Day.

         (f) Obligations Absolute.  Each Borrower's obligations to reimburse L/C
Disbursements   as  provided  in   paragraph   (e)  above  shall  be   absolute,
unconditional  and  irrevocable,  and shall be performed  strictly in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement,  under any and all  circumstances  whatsoever,
and irrespective of:

                  (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of 
         Credit or any Loan Document, or any term or provision therein;

                  (ii) any amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure 
         from all or any of the provisions of any Letter of Credit or any Loan
         Document;

                  (iii) the  existence  of any claim,  setoff,  defense or other
         right that any  Borrower,  any other party  guaranteeing,  or otherwise
         obligated  with,  such  Borrower,  any  Subsidiary  or other  Affiliate
         thereof  or  any  other  person  may  at  any  time  have  against  the
         beneficiary  under any Letter of Credit,  the applicable  Issuing Bank,
         the Administrative Agent or any Lender or any other person,  whether in
         connection  with this  Agreement,  any other Loan Document or any other
         related or unrelated agreement or transaction;

                  (iv) any draft or other document  presented  under a Letter of
         Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any
         respect or any  statement  therein  being untrue or  inaccurate  in any
         respect;

                  (v)  payment  by an  Issuing  Bank  under a Letter  of  Credit
         against  presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply
         with the terms of such Letter of Credit; and

                  (vi) any other act or  omission to act or delay of any kind of
         an Issuing Bank,  the Lenders,  the  Administrative  Agent or any other
         person or any other event or  circumstance  whatsoever,  whether or not
         similar to any of the foregoing,  that might, but for the provisions of
         this  Section,  constitute  a  legal  or  equitable  discharge  of  any
         Borrower's obligations hereunder.

         Without  limiting  the  generality  of the  foregoing,  it is expressly
understood  and agreed that the absolute and  unconditional  obligation  of each
Borrower hereunder to reimburse L/C Disbursements will not be excused by the


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gross negligence or wilful misconduct of an Issuing Bank. However, the foregoing
shall not be construed to excuse an Issuing Bank from  liability to any Borrower
to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims
in respect of which are hereby waived by each  Borrower to the extent  permitted
by applicable law) suffered by any Borrower that are caused by an Issuing Bank's
gross  negligence or wilful  misconduct in determining  whether drafts and other
documents  presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof;  it
is  understood  that an Issuing Bank may accept  documents  that appear on their
face to be in order,  without  responsibility for further  investigation and, in
making any payment  under any Letter of Credit (i) an Issuing  Bank's  exclusive
reliance on the documents  presented to it under such Letter of Credit as to any
and all matters set forth therein, including reliance on the amount of any draft
presented  under  such  Letter of  Credit,  whether or not the amount due to the
beneficiary  thereunder  equals the amount of such draft and  whether or not any
document  presented  pursuant to such Letter of Credit proves to be insufficient
in any respect, if such document on its face appears to be in order, and whether
or not any other  statement  or any other  document  presented  pursuant to such
Letter of Credit proves to be forged or invalid or any statement  therein proves
to be inaccurate or untrue in any respect  whatsoever and (ii) any noncompliance
in any immaterial respect of the documents presented under such Letter of Credit
with the terms thereof shall,  in each case, be deemed not to constitute  wilful
misconduct or gross negligence of an Issuing Bank.

         (g)  Disbursement  Procedures.   The  applicable  Issuing  Bank  shall,
promptly  following its receipt  thereof,  examine all  documents  purporting to
represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. Such Issuing Bank shall
as promptly as possible give telephonic notification,  confirmed by telecopy, to
the Administrative  Agent and the applicable Borrower of such demand for payment
and  whether  such  Issuing  Bank  has  made  or will  make an L/C  Disbursement
thereunder;  provided  that any  failure to give or delay in giving  such notice
shall not relieve any Borrower of its  obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank
and the Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to any such L/C Disbursement.  The
Administrative  Agent shall  promptly give each  Revolving  Credit Lender notice
thereof.

         (h)  Interim   Interest.   If  an  Issuing  Bank  shall  make  any  L/C
Disbursement  in  respect  of a Letter of Credit,  then,  unless the  applicable
Borrower shall reimburse such L/C  Disbursement in full on such date, the unpaid
amount  thereof shall bear  interest for the account of such Issuing  Bank,  for
each day from and including the date of such L/C Disbursement,  to but excluding
the  earlier  of the  date of  payment  by such  Borrower  or the  date on which
interest shall commence to accrue thereon as provided in Section 2.02(f), at the
rate per annum that would  apply to such  amount if such  amount were (i) in the
case of a  Dollar  Loan,  an ABR  Revolving  Loan  and  (ii)  in the  case of an
Alternative  Currency, a Eurocurrency  Revolving Loan with an Interest Period of
one month's duration.

         (i)  Resignation  or Removal of an Issuing  Bank.  An Issuing  Bank may
resign  at  any  time  by  giving  180  days'  prior   written   notice  to  the
Administrative  Agent,  the Lenders and Terex, and may be removed at any time by
Terex by notice to such Issuing Bank, the Administrative  Agent and the Lenders.
Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, upon the acceptance of any appointment
as an  Issuing  Bank  hereunder  by a  Lender  that  shall  agree  to serve as a
successor  Issuing Bank,  such successor shall succeed to and become vested with
all the interests,  rights and obligations of the retiring  Issuing Bank and the
retiring  Issuing  Bank  shall  be  discharged  from  its  obligations  to issue
additional Letters of Credit hereunder.  At the time such removal or resignation
shall become effective, the Borrowers shall pay all accrued and unpaid fees


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pursuant to Section 2.05(c)(ii). The acceptance of any appointment as an Issuing
Bank hereunder by a successor Lender shall be evidenced by an agreement  entered
into  by  such  successor,  in a form  satisfactory  to the  Borrowers  and  the
Administrative  Agent, and, from and after the effective date of such agreement,
(i) such  successor  Lender  shall have all the rights  and  obligations  of the
previous Issuing Bank under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (ii)
references  herein and in the other Loan  Documents to the term  "Issuing  Bank"
shall be deemed to refer to such  successor or to any previous  Issuing Bank, or
to such successor and all previous  Issuing Banks, as the context shall require.
After the  resignation  or removal of an Issuing  Bank  hereunder,  the retiring
Issuing  Bank shall  remain a party  hereto and shall  continue  to have all the
rights and  obligations  of an Issuing Bank under this  Agreement  and the other
Loan  Documents  with  respect to  Letters of Credit  issued by it prior to such
resignation or removal, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of
Credit.

         (j) Cash Collateralization. If (i) any Event of Default shall occur and
be continuing or (ii) to the extent and so long as the L/C Exposure  exceeds the
Total  Revolving  Credit  Commitment,  the Borrowers  shall, on the Business Day
after  Terex  receives  notice  from the  Administrative  Agent or the  Required
Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, Revolving Credit
Lenders holding  participations  in outstanding  Letters of Credit  representing
greater than 50% of the aggregate  undrawn amount of all outstanding  Letters of
Credit)  thereof and of the amount to be  deposited,  deposit in an account with
the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Revolving Credit Lenders, an amount
in cash in the  currency  determined  by the  Collateral  Agent equal to the L/C
Exposure as of such date. Such deposit shall be held by the Collateral  Agent as
collateral for the payment and  performance of the  Obligations.  The Collateral
Agent shall have exclusive  dominion and control,  including the exclusive right
of  withdrawal,  over  such  account.  Other  than any  interest  earned  on the
investment of such deposits in Permitted Investments, which investments shall be
made at the option and sole  discretion of the Collateral  Agent,  such deposits
shall not bear interest.  Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall
accumulate in such account.  Moneys in such account shall (i)  automatically  be
applied  by the  Administrative  Agent to  reimburse  any  Issuing  Bank for L/C
Disbursements  for  which  it has not  been  reimbursed,  (ii)  be held  for the
satisfaction  of the  reimbursement  obligations  of the  Borrowers  for the L/C
Exposure  at  such  time  and  (iii)  if the  maturity  of the  Loans  has  been
accelerated  (but subject to the consent of  Revolving  Credit  Lenders  holding
participations in outstanding Letters of Credit representing greater than 50% of
the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding  Letters of Credit),  be applied
to satisfy the Obligations.  If any Borrower is required to provide an amount of
cash collateral  hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default,
such amount (to the extent not applied as  aforesaid)  shall be returned to such
Borrower  within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured
or waived.  If any Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash  collateral
pursuant to clause (ii) of the first sentence of this paragraph (j), such amount
shall be  returned  to such  Borrower  from time to time to the extent  that the
amount of such cash collateral held by the Collateral  Agent exceeds the excess,
if any, of the L/C Exposure over the Total Revolving  Credit  Commitment so long
as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

         SECTION  2.24.  A/C  Fronted  Loans.  (a)  Subject  to  the  terms  and
conditions and relying upon the representations and warranties herein set forth,
(i) the  Australian  Fronting  Lender  agrees  to make  loans to the  Australian
Borrower in Australian  Dollars and (ii) the Italian  Fronting  Lender agrees to
make loans to the Italian Borrower in Lire, in each case, at any time and from


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time to time on and  after  the  Closing  Date  and  until  the  earlier  of the
Revolving  Credit  Maturity  Date  and  the  termination  of  the  A/C  Fronting
Commitment of such A/C Fronting Lender in accordance  with the terms hereof,  in
an aggregate  principal  amount at any time  outstanding that will not result in
(i) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of such A/C Fronting
Lender's A/C Fronting  Loans  exceeding its A/C Fronting  Commitment or (ii) the
Aggregate  Revolving  Credit  Exposure,  after giving  effect to any A/C Fronted
Loan, exceeding the Total Revolving Credit Commitment; provided however that the
Italian  Borrower shall not be entitled to make any Borrowings  hereunder  until
all amounts  under the Italian  Facilities  shall have been paid in full and the
commitments thereunder terminated. Each A/C Fronted Loan shall be in a principal
amount that is an integral  multiple of the Alternative  Currency  Equivalent of
$100,000  and not less than  $2,500,000.  The A/C  Fronting  Commitments  may be
terminated or reduced from time to time as provided herein. Within the foregoing
limits,  the  applicable  Borrower  may borrow,  pay or prepay and  reborrow A/C
Fronted Loans  hereunder,  subject to the terms,  conditions and limitations set
forth herein.

         (b) A/C Fronted Loans. The Australian Borrower or the Italian Borrower,
as applicable,  shall notify the applicable A/C Fronting Lender,  with a copy to
the Administrative  Agent, by telecopy,  or by telephone (confirmed by telecopy)
(i) in the case of the Australian  Borrower,  not later than 10:00 a.m.,  Sydney
time,  on the day of a  proposed  A/C  Fronted  Loan or (ii) in the  case of the
Italian  Borrower,  not later than 10:00 a.m.,  Boston time, three Business Days
before the date of a proposed A/C Fronted  Loan.  Such notice shall be delivered
on a Business Day, shall be irrevocable and shall refer to this Agreement, shall
specify the  requested  date (which shall be a Business  Day) and amount of such
A/C Fronted Loan (which shall be expressed in dollars),  shall  specify  whether
such A/C Fronted  Loan is to be an A/C Fronted  Base Rate Loan or an AC/ Fronted
Fixed Rate Loan and, if such Loan is to be an A/C Fronted  Fixed Rate Loan,  the
Interest  Period  therefor  (which shall comply with the  definition of the term
"Bank Bill Rate" or "Italian Fixed Rate", as applicable.  If no Rate is selected
with respect to any A/C Fronted Loan, the applicable Borrower shall be deemed to
have selected an A/C Fronted Base Rate Loan.

         (c)  Prepayment.  The  applicable  Borrower shall have the right at any
time from time to time to prepay any A/C Fronted Loan, in whole or in part, upon
giving written or telecopy  notice (or telephone  notice  promptly  confirmed by
written,  or telecopy  notice) to the applicable A/C Fronting  Lender and to the
Administrative  Agent before 12:00 (noon),  local time on the date of prepayment
at the  applicable  A/C  Fronting  Lender's  address  for notices  specified  on
Schedule  2.01(a).  All  principal  payments  of  A/C  Fronted  Loans  shall  be
accompanied by accrued interest on the principal amount being repaid to the date
of payment.  All  prepayments  of A/C Fronted  Loans shall be subject to Section
2.16 but otherwise without premium or penalty.

         (d)  Interest.  Subject to the  provisions  of Section  2.07,  each A/C
Fronted Base Rate Loan shall bear interest  (computed on the basis of the actual
number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days) at a rate per annum equal to the
A/C Fronted Base Rate with respect to such A/C Fronted Loan plus the  Applicable
Percentage with respect to such Loan. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.07,
each A/C Fronted Fixed Rate Loan shall bear  interest  (computed on the basis of
the actual  number of days  elapsed over a year of 360 days) at a rate per annum
equal to the A/C Fronted  Fixed Rate for the Interest  Period in effect for such
Loan plus the Applicable  Percentage with respect to such Loan. Interest on each
A/C Fronted  Loan shall be payable on the  Interest  Payment  Date with  respect
thereto. Each A/C Fronting Lender shall notify the applicable Borrower and the


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Administrative Agent of the A/C Fronting Base Rate or the A/C Fronted Fixed Rate
applicable to such A/C Fronting  Lender's A/C Fronted Loans  promptly  following
each determination thereof.

         (e)  Participations.  If the  applicable  Borrower shall default in the
payment of principal of or interest on any A/C Fronted Loan when and as the same
shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or by acceleration
or otherwise,  then the applicable A/C Fronting Lender shall promptly notify the
Administrative  Agent thereof and, upon notice from the Administrative  Agent or
the applicable A/C Fronting  Lender to the  applicable  Borrower,  the principal
amount of all A/C Fronted Loans to such Borrower,  together with all accrued and
unpaid interest  thereon,  shall be converted to Dollar Loans and obligations to
pay interest in dollars,  respectively,  at the Exchange Rate  prevailing on the
date of such default,  and the  Administrative  Agent shall promptly notify each
Revolving Credit Lender of such default (by telecopy or by telephone,  confirmed
in writing) and of its Pro Rata  Percentage in dollars of such A/C Fronted Loan.
Upon such notice but without any further  action,  the  applicable  A/C Fronting
Lender  hereby  agrees  to  grant  to each  Revolving  Credit  Lender,  and each
Revolving  Credit  Lender  hereby  agrees to  acquire  from the  applicable  A/C
Fronting  Lender,  a  participation  in such defaulted A/C Fronted Loan equal to
such Lender's Pro Rata Percentage in dollars of the aggregate  principal  amount
of such  defaulted A/C Fronting  Loan. In  furtherance  of the  foregoing,  each
Revolving  Credit Lender hereby  absolutely  and  unconditionally  agrees,  upon
receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of the applicable A/C Fronting Lender, such Lender's Pro Rata Percentage
of each such  defaulted A/C Fronted Loan.  Each Lender  acknowledges  and agrees
that its obligation to acquire  participations  in A/C Fronted Loans pursuant to
this  paragraph is absolute and  unconditional  and shall not be affected by any
circumstance  whatsoever,  including the occurrence and continuance of a Default
or an Event of Default,  and that each such  payment  shall be made  without any
offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Lender shall comply
with its  obligation  under  this  paragraph  by wire  transfer  of  immediately
available  funds in the same manner as provided in Section  2.02(c) with respect
to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.02(c) shall apply, mutatis mutandis,
to the payment  obligations of the Lenders) and the  Administrative  Agent shall
promptly pay to the applicable A/C Fronting Lender the amounts so received by it
from the Lenders.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the applicable Borrower
of any  participations  in any  A/C  Fronted  Loan  acquired  pursuant  to  this
paragraph and  thereafter  payments in respect of such A/C Fronted Loan shall be
made in dollars and to the  Administrative  Agent and not to the  applicable A/C
Fronting  Lender.  Any  amounts  received  by an A/C  Fronting  Lender  from any
Borrower  (or other  party on  behalf of such  Borrower)  in  respect  of an A/C
Fronted Loan after receipt by such A/C Fronting Lender of the proceeds of a sale
of  participations  therein  shall be promptly  remitted  to the  Administrative
Agent; any such amounts received by the  Administrative  Agent shall be promptly
remitted by the  Administrative  Agent to the Lenders that shall have made their
payments  pursuant to this paragraph and to the applicable A/C Fronting  Lender,
as their interests may appear.  The purchase of participations in an A/C Fronted
Loan pursuant to this  paragraph  shall not relieve any Borrower (or other party
liable for obligations of such Borrower) of any default in the payment thereof.

         (f) Termination and Reduction of A/C Fronting Commitments. Upon written
or  telecopy   notice  to  the  applicable  A/C  Fronting   Lender  and  to  the
Administrative Agent, Terex may at any time permanently terminate,  or from time
to time in part  permanently  reduce,  the A/C  Fronting  Commitment  of any A/C
Fronting Lender; provided, however, that the A/C Fronting Commitment of such


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A/C Fronting  Lender shall not be reduced to an amount that is less than the A/C
Fronting Loans of such A/C Fronting Lender at such time.

         SECTION  2.25.  Reporting  Requirements  of A/C  Fronting  Lenders  and
Issuing  Banks.  (a) Within two  Business  Days  following  the last day of each
calendar  month,  each A/C Fronting  Lender shall deliver to the  Administrative
Agent a statement  showing the average daily principal amount of the A/C Fronted
Loans  outstanding  in each currency  during the calendar  quarter most recently
ended.

         (b) Within two Business  Days  following  the last day of each calendar
month,  each Issuing  Bank shall  deliver to the  Administrative  Agent a report
detailing all activity during the preceding month with respect to any Letters of
Credit  issued by such Issuing  Bank,  including  the face  amount,  the account
party, the beneficiary and the expiration date of such Letters of Credit and any
other information with respect thereto as may be requested by the Administrative
Agent.

         SECTION 2.26.  Additional Issuing Banks. The Borrowers may, at any time
and from  time to time  with the  consent  of the  Administrative  Agent  (which
consent shall not be  unreasonably  withheld) and such Lender,  designate one or
more  additional  Lenders  to act as an  issuing  bank  under  the terms of this
Agreement  solely for the purpose of issuing  Letters of Credit  denominated  in
Alternative Currencies other than Marks, Pounds, Francs,  Australian Dollars and
Lire.  Any Lender  designated  as an issuing bank  pursuant to this Section 2.26
shall be  deemed to be an  "Issuing  Bank" (in  addition  to being a Lender)  in
respect of Letters of Credit  issued or to be issued by such  Lender  and,  with
respect  to such  Letters of Credit,  such term  shall  thereafter  apply to the
Issuing Bank and such Lender.


                                   ARTICLE III

                         Representations and Warranties

         Each Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative  Agent, the
Collateral Agent, each of the Issuing Banks and each of the Lenders that:

         SECTION 3.01. Organization;  Powers. Terex and each of the Subsidiaries
(including each Borrower) (a) is a corporation or partnership duly  incorporated
or formed,  as the case may be, validly  existing and in good standing under the
laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation,  (b) has all requisite  corporate
power and  authority to own its property and assets and to carry on its business
as now  conducted  and as  proposed  to be  conducted,  (c) is  qualified  to do
business  in,  and  is in  good  standing  in,  every  jurisdiction  where  such
qualification  is  required,  except  where the failure so to qualify  could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material  Adverse Effect,  and (d) has the
corporate  power and authority to execute,  deliver and perform its  obligations
under  each of the  Loan  Documents  and  each  other  agreement  or  instrument
contemplated  hereby to which it is or will be a party and,  in the case of each
Borrower,  to borrow  hereunder.  Each  Borrower  (other than Terex) is a wholly
owned Subsidiary.

         SECTION 3.02. Authorization. The execution, delivery and performance by
each  Loan  Party of each of the Loan  Documents  and the  borrowings  hereunder
(collectively,  the  "Transactions")  (a)  have  been  duly  authorized  by  all
requisite corporate and, if required, stockholder action and (b) will not



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(i) violate (A) any  provision  of law,  statute,  rule or  regulation,  (B) the
certificate  or articles of  incorporation  or other  constitutive  documents or
By-laws of Terex or any Subsidiary,  (C) any order of any Governmental Authority
applicable to Terex or such  Subsidiary  or (D) any provision of any  indenture,
agreement or other  instrument to which Terex or any Subsidiary is a party or by
which any of them or any of their property is or may be bound,  (ii) result in a
breach  of or  constitute  (alone  or with  notice  or  lapse of time or both) a
default  under,  or give  rise to any  right to  accelerate  or to  require  the
prepayment, repurchase or redemption of any obligation under any such indenture,
agreement or other  instrument,  except,  in the case of each of clause  (i)(A),
(i)(D) and (ii), where such violation, breach or default could not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material  Adverse Effect or (iii) result in the creation
or  imposition  of any Lien upon or with  respect to any  property or assets now
owned or  hereafter  acquired  by Terex or any  Subsidiary  (other than any Lien
created hereunder or under the Security Documents).

         SECTION 3.03. Enforceability. This Agreement has been duly executed and
delivered by each  Borrower and  constitutes,  and each other Loan Document when
executed and  delivered by each Loan Party  thereto  will  constitute,  a legal,
valid and binding  obligation of such Loan Party  enforceable  against such Loan
Party  in  accordance  with  its  terms,   subject  to  applicable   bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors' rights
generally  and subject to general  principles  of equity,  regardless of whether
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

         SECTION 3.04.  Governmental  Approvals.  No action, consent or approval
of,  registration  or  filing  with  or any  other  action  by any  Governmental
Authority is or will be required in connection with the Transactions, except for
(a) the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing  statements and filings with
the United States Patent and  Trademark  Office and the United States  Copyright
Office,  (b)  recordation  of the  Mortgages  and (c) such as have  been made or
obtained  and are in full force and effect,  except  where the failure to obtain
the same  could not  reasonably  be  expected  to result in a  Material  Adverse
Effect.

         SECTION 3.05. Financial Statements.  (a) Terex has heretofore furnished
to the Lenders its consolidated and consolidating  balance sheets and statements
of income and changes in  financial  condition  as of and for each of the fiscal
years ended December 31, 1994,  December 31, 1995 and December 31, 1996, audited
by and accompanied by the opinion of Price Waterhouse L.L.P., independent public
accountants,  and as of and for the fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal
year ended September 30, 1997, certified by a Financial Officer.  Such financial
statements  present fairly in all material respects the financial  condition and
results of operations and cash flows of Terex and its consolidated  Subsidiaries
as of such dates and for such periods. Such balance sheets and the notes thereto
disclose  all  material  liabilities,  direct  or  contingent,  of Terex and its
consolidated  Subsidiaries  as of the dates thereof  required to be reflected in
accordance with GAAP. Such financial statements were prepared in accordance with
GAAP applied on a consistent basis.

         (b) Terex has  heretofore  delivered to the Lenders its  unaudited  pro
forma consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 1997, prepared giving effect
to the  Refinancing  and the Debt Tender  Offer as if they had  occurred on such
date.  Such pro forma  balance  sheet has been  prepared in good faith by Terex,
based on the  assumptions  used to prepare the pro forma  financial  information
contained in the  Confidential  Information  Memorandum  (which  assumptions are
believed by Terex on the date hereof and on the Closing Date to be reasonable),


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is based on the best  information  available to Terex as of the date of delivery
thereof,  accurately reflects all adjustments required to be made to give effect
to the  Refinancing and the Debt Tender Offer and presents fairly on a pro forma
basis  the  estimated   consolidated   financial   position  of  Terex  and  its
consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date, assuming that the Refinancing and the
Debt Tender Offer had actually occurred at such date.

         SECTION 3.06. No Material  Adverse  Change.  There has been no material
adverse  change  in the  business,  assets,  operations,  prospects,  condition,
financial or otherwise,  or material  agreements of Terex and its  Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, since December 31, 1996.

         SECTION 3.07. Title to Properties; Possession Under Leases. (a) Each of
Terex and its  Subsidiaries  has fee title to, or valid leasehold  interests in,
all its material  properties  and assets  (including  all  Mortgaged  Property),
except for  defects in title that do not  interfere  with its ability to conduct
its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties and assets for
their intended  purposes.  All such material  properties and assets are free and
clear of Liens, other than Liens expressly permitted by Section 6.02.

         (b) Each of Terex and its  Subsidiaries  has  complied in all  material
respects with all  obligations  under all material leases to which it is a party
and all  such  leases  are in full  force  and  effect.  Each of  Terex  and its
Subsidiaries enjoys peaceful and undisturbed  possession under all such material
leases.

         (c) No  Borrower  has  received  any  written  notice  of,  nor has any
knowledge of, any pending or contemplated  condemnation proceeding affecting the
Mortgaged Properties or any sale or disposition thereof in lieu of condemnation.

         (d) Neither Terex nor any of its  Subsidiaries  is obligated  under any
right of first refusal,  option or other  contractual  right to sell,  assign or
otherwise dispose of any Mortgaged Property or any interest therein.

         SECTION 3.08. Subsidiaries.  Schedule 3.08 sets forth as of the Closing
Date a list of all Subsidiaries and the percentage  ownership  interest of Terex
therein.  The shares of capital stock or other ownership  interests so indicated
on  Schedule  3.08 are  fully  paid and non  assessable  and are owned by Terex,
directly or indirectly  through its  Subsidiaries,  free and clear of all Liens,
except  for  Liens  created  under  the  Security  Documents.   Each  Subsidiary
identified on Schedule 1.01(f) as an Inactive  Subsidiary (a) owns assets having
a fair  market  value not in excess of  $50,000 in the  aggregate,  (b) does not
conduct any  business  activity  and (c) is not an obligor  with  respect to any
Indebtedness.

         SECTION 3.09. Litigation; Compliance with Laws. (a) Except as set forth
on Schedule 3.09,  there are not any actions,  suits or proceedings at law or in
equity  or by or  before  any  Governmental  Authority  now  pending  or, to the
knowledge of any Borrower,  threatened  against or affecting Terex or any of its
Subsidiaries  or any  business,  property  or rights of any such person (i) that
involve  any Loan  Document or the  Transactions  or (ii) as to which there is a
reasonable  possibility  of an  adverse  determination  and that,  if  adversely
determined in the ordinary  course of such action,  suit or  proceeding,  at the
time of such determination, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the
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         (b) None of Terex or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective
material  properties  or  assets  is in  violation  of,  nor will the  continued
operation  of their  material  properties  and  assets  as  currently  conducted
violate,  any  law,  rule  or  regulation   (including  any  zoning,   building,
Environmental Law,  ordinance,  code or approval or any building permits) or any
restrictions of record or agreements affecting the Mortgaged Property,  or is in
default with respect to any judgment,  writ, injunction,  decree or order of any
Governmental  Authority,  where such  violation or default  could  reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

         (c)  Certificates  of  occupancy  and  permits  are in effect  for each
Mortgaged  Property as currently  constructed,  except where the failure to have
the same  could not  reasonably  be  expected  to result in a  Material  Adverse
Effect.

         (d) No exchange  control law or  regulation  materially  restricts  any
Borrower  from  complying  with its  obligations  in respect of any  Alternative
Currency  Loan or Letter of Credit or any other Loan  Party with  respect to its
obligations under any Loan Document.

         SECTION 3.10. Agreements. (a) Neither Terex nor any of the Subsidiaries
is a  party  to  any  agreement  or  instrument  or  subject  to  any  corporate
restriction  that has  resulted or could  reasonably  be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.

         (b)  Neither  Terex nor any of its  Subsidiaries  is in  default in any
manner under any  provision of any  indenture or other  agreement or  instrument
evidencing Indebtedness,  or any other material agreement or instrument to which
it is a party or by which it or any of its  properties  or assets  are or may be
bound,  where such default could  reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.

         SECTION 3.11. Federal Reserve Regulations. (a) Neither Terex nor any of
its Subsidiaries is engaged principally,  or as one of its important activities,
in the business of extending credit for the purpose of buying or carrying Margin
Stock.

         (b) No part of the proceeds of any Loan or any Letter of Credit will be
used, whether directly or indirectly,  and whether immediately,  incidentally or
ultimately, for any purpose that entails a violation of, or that is inconsistent
with, the provisions of the Regulations of the Board,  including Regulation G, U
or X.

         SECTION 3.12.  Investment  Company Act;  Public Utility Holding Company
Act. Neither Terex nor any of its Subsidiaries is (a) an "investment company" as
defined in, or subject to regulation  under, the Investment  Company Act of 1940
or (b) a "holding  company" as defined in, or subject to regulation  under,  the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.

         SECTION 3.13.  Use of Proceeds.  Each Borrower will use the proceeds of
the Loans and will  request  the  issuance  of  Letters  of Credit  only for the
purposes specified in the preamble to this Agreement.

         SECTION 3.14. Tax Returns. Each of Terex and its Subsidiaries has filed
or caused to be filed all  Federal,  state,  local and  foreign  tax  returns or
materials  required  to have been  filed by it and has paid or caused to be paid
all taxes due and payable by it and all assessments received by it (in each case
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in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which Terex or such Subsidiary,
as  applicable,  shall have set aside on its books  reserves in accordance  with
GAAP.

         SECTION 3.15. No Material  Misstatements.  None of (a) the Confidential
Information  Memorandum  or  (b)  any  other  information,   report,   financial
statement,  exhibit or  schedule  furnished  by or on behalf of any  Borrower in
writing  to the  Administrative  Agent  or any  Lender  in  connection  with the
negotiation  of any Loan  Document or  included  therein or  delivered  pursuant
thereto contained, contains or will contain any material misstatement of fact or
omitted,  omits or will omit to state any  material  fact  necessary to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were, are
or  will  be  made,  not  misleading;  provided  that  to the  extent  any  such
information,  report, financial statement, exhibit or schedule was based upon or
constitutes  a forecast or  projection,  such Borrower  represents  only that it
acted in good faith and utilized assumptions believed by it to be reasonable and
due care in the preparation of such information,  report,  financial  statement,
exhibit or schedule.

         SECTION  3.16.  Employee  Benefit  Plans.  (a)  Each of  Terex  and its
respective ERISA  Affiliates is in compliance in all material  respects with the
applicable  provisions of ERISA and the Code and the  regulations  and published
interpretations  thereunder.  No  ERISA  Event  has  occurred  or is  reasonably
expected to occur that,  when taken  together  with all other such ERISA Events,
could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present
value of all benefit  liabilities  under each Plan  (based on those  assumptions
used to fund such Plan) did not, as of December  31,  1997,  exceed by more than
$3,200,000  the fair  market  value of the assets of such Plan,  and the present
value of all  benefit  liabilities  of all  underfunded  Plans  (based  on those
assumptions  used to fund each such  Plan) did not,  as of  December  31,  1997,
exceed by more than  $2,700,000  the fair market value of the assets of all such
underfunded Plans.

         (b) Each Foreign Pension Plan is in compliance in all material respects
with all requirements of law applicable thereto and the respective  requirements
of  the   governing   documents   for  such  plan  except  to  the  extent  such
non-compliance  could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. With respect to each Foreign Pension Plan, none of Terex, its Affiliates
or any of  its  directors,  officers,  employees  or  agents  has  engaged  in a
transaction  which would subject Terex or any of its  Subsidiaries,  directly or
indirectly,  to a material  tax or civil  penalty.  With respect to each Foreign
Pension  Plan,  reserves  have  been  established  in the  financial  statements
furnished to Lenders in respect of any unfunded  liabilities in accordance  with
applicable law and prudent business  practice or, where required,  in accordance
with ordinary  accounting  practices in the  jurisdiction  in which such Foreign
Pension Plan is maintained. The aggregate unfunded liabilities,  with respect to
such  Foreign  Pension  Plans  could not  reasonably  be expected to result in a
Material  Adverse  Effect.  There are no  actions,  suits or claims  (other than
routine claims for benefits)  pending or threatened  against Terex or any of its
Affiliates  with respect to any Foreign  Pension Plan which could  reasonably be
expected,  individually  or in the  aggregate,  to result in a Material  Adverse
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         SECTION 3.17.  Environmental  Matters.  Except as set forth in Schedule
3.17:

         (a) The properties  owned,  leased or operated by each of Terex and its
Subsidiaries  (the  "Properties")  do not contain  any  Hazardous  Materials  in
amounts or concentrations  which (i) constitute,  or constituted a violation of,
(ii) require Remedial Action under, or (iii) could give rise to liability under,
Environmental Laws, which violations,  Remedial Actions and liabilities,  in the
aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

         (b)  The  Properties  and all  operations  of  each  of  Terex  and its
Subsidiaries  are in compliance in all material  respects,  and in the last five
years have been in compliance,  with all  Environmental  Laws, and all necessary
Environmental Permits have been obtained and are in effect, except to the extent
that such  non-compliance  or failure to obtain any  necessary  permits,  in the
aggregate,  could  reasonably  be expected  to not result in a Material  Adverse
Effect;

         (c) There have been no Releases or threatened  Releases at, from, under
or proximate to the  Properties or otherwise in  connection  with the current or
former  operations of Terex or its  Subsidiaries,  which  Releases or threatened
Releases, in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect;

         (d) Neither Terex nor any of its  Subsidiaries  has received any notice
of an  Environmental  Claim in connection  with the Properties or the current or
former  operations  of Terex or such  Subsidiaries  or with regard to any person
whose  liabilities  for  environmental  matters Terex or such  Subsidiaries  has
retained or assumed, in whole or in part, contractually,  by operation of law or
otherwise,  which, in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, nor do Terex or its Subsidiaries have reason to believe
that any such notice will be received or is being threatened; and

         (e) Hazardous  Materials have not been transported from the Properties,
nor have Hazardous Materials been generated,  treated, stored or disposed of at,
on or under any of the  Properties in a manner that could give rise to liability
under any  Environmental  Law,  nor have Terex or its  Subsidiaries  retained or
assumed any  liability,  contractually,  by operation of law or otherwise,  with
respect  to  the  generation,   treatment,  storage  or  disposal  of  Hazardous
Materials, which liabilities,  in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect.

         SECTION 3.18. Insurance.  Schedule 3.18 sets forth a true, complete and
correct  description  of  all  insurance  maintained  by  Terex  or  any  of its
Subsidiaries  as of the date hereof and the Closing  Date. As of each such date,
such insurance is in full force and effect and all premiums have been duly paid.
Each of Terex and its  Subsidiaries  has  insurance in such amounts and covering
such risks and liabilities as are in accordance with normal industry practice.

         SECTION 3.19. Security Documents. (a) The Pledge Agreement is effective
to create in favor of the  Collateral  Agent,  for the  ratable  benefit  of the
Secured  Parties,  a legal,  valid  and  enforceable  security  interest  in the
Collateral  (as defined in the Pledge  Agreement)  and,  when the  Collateral is
delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Pledge Agreement shall constitute a fully
perfected first priority Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and


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interest of the pledgors  thereunder in such Collateral,  in each case prior and
superior in right to any other person.

         (b) The  Security  Agreement  is  effective  to  create in favor of the
Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid
and enforceable  security interest in the Collateral (as defined in the Security
Agreement) and, when financing  statements in appropriate  form are filed in the
appropriate filing offices relating to the locations  specified on Schedule 2 to
the Perfection  Certificate,  the Security  Agreement  shall  constitute a fully
perfected  Lien on, and security  interest in, all right,  title and interest of
the  grantors  thereunder  in  such  Collateral  (other  than  the  Intellectual
Property, as defined in the Security Agreement), in each case prior and superior
in right to any  other  person,  other  than  with  respect  to Liens  expressly
permitted by Section 6.02.

         (c) When the Security  Agreement is filed in the United  States  Patent
and  Trademark  Office and the United  States  Copyright  Office,  the  Security
Agreement shall constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security  interest in,
all right,  title and interest of the grantors  thereunder  in the  Intellectual
Property (as defined in the Security Agreement), in each case prior and superior
in right to any other person (it being understood that subsequent  recordings in
the United States Patent and  Trademark  Office and the United States  Copyright
Office may be necessary to perfect a lien on  registered  trademarks,  trademark
applications and copyrights acquired by the grantors after the date hereof).

         (d) The Mortgages  are  effective to create in favor of the  Collateral
Agent,  for the  ratable  benefit of the  Secured  Parties,  a legal,  valid and
enforceable Lien on all of the Loan Parties' right, title and interest in and to
the  Mortgaged  Property  thereunder  and the  proceeds  thereof,  and  when the
Mortgages are filed in the offices specified on Schedule 3.19(d),  the Mortgages
shall constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right,
title and  interest  of the Loan  Parties  in such  Mortgaged  Property  and the
proceeds thereof,  in each case prior and superior in right to any other person,
other than with  respect to the rights of persons  pursuant  to Liens  expressly
permitted by Section 6.02.

         SECTION 3.20. Location of Real Property and Leased Premises.
(a) Schedule  3.20(a) lists  completely and correctly as of the Closing Date all
real property  owned by Terex and the  Subsidiaries  and the addresses  thereof.
Terex  and the  Subsidiaries  own in fee all the  real  property  set  forth  on
Schedule 3.20(a).

         (b) Schedule  3.20(b) lists  completely and correctly as of the Closing
Date all real property  leased by Terex and the  Subsidiaries  and the addresses
thereof.  Terex and the Subsidiaries  have valid leases in all the real property
set forth on Schedule 3.20(b).

         SECTION 3.21. Labor Matters As of the date hereof and the Closing Date,
there  are  no  strikes,  lockouts  or  slowdowns  against  Terex  or any of its
Subsidiaries pending or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, threatened. The hours
worked by and payments made to employees of Terex and its Subsidiaries  have not
been in  violation  of the Fair  Labor  Standards  Act or any  other  applicable
Federal, state, local or foreign law dealing with such matters. All payments due
from  Terex or any of its  Subsidiaries,  or for  which  any  claim  may be made
against Terex or any such  Subsidiary,  on account of wages and employee  health
and  welfare  insurance  and other  benefits,  have been  paid or  accrued  as a
liability  on the books of Terex or such  Subsidiary.  The  consummation  of the
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renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement
to which Terex or any of its Subsidiaries is bound.

         SECTION  3.22.  Solvency.  Immediately  after the  consummation  of the
Transactions to occur on the Closing Date and  immediately  following the making
of each Loan and after giving effect to the  application of the proceeds of such
Loans,  (a)  the  fair  value  of the  assets  of the  Loan  Parties,  at a fair
valuation, will exceed their debts and liabilities,  subordinated, contingent or
otherwise;  (b) the  present  fair  saleable  value of the  property of the Loan
Parties  will be  greater  than the  amount  that  will be  required  to pay the
probable  liability  of  their  debts  and  other   liabilities,   subordinated,
contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and
matured;  (c) each Loan  Party  will be able to pay its  debts and  liabilities,
subordinated,  contingent or  otherwise,  as such debts and  liabilities  become
absolute and matured;  and (d) each Loan Party will not have unreasonably  small
capital  with  which to  conduct  the  business  in which it is  engaged as such
business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted  following the Closing
Date.


                                   ARTICLE IV

                              Conditions of Lending

         The  obligations  of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Banks
to issue  Letters of Credit  hereunder  are subject to the  satisfaction  of the
following conditions:

         SECTION  4.01.  All  Credit  Events.  On the  date of  each  Borrowing,
including  each Borrowing of a Swingline Loan or an A/C Fronted Loan, and on the
date of each  issuance,  amendment  or renewal of a Letter of Credit  (each such
event being called a "Credit Event"):

         (a) The  Administrative  Agent  shall  have  received  a notice of such
Borrowing  as  required by Section  2.03 (or such notice  shall have been deemed
given  in  accordance  with  Section  2.03)  or,  in the  case of the  issuance,
amendment or renewal of a Letter of Credit,  the applicable Issuing Bank and the
Administrative  Agent shall have  received a notice  requesting  the issuance of
such  Letter of Credit as  required  by Section  2.23(b)  or, in the case of the
Borrowing of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender and the Administrative Agent
shall have  received a notice  requesting  such  Swingline  Loan as  required by
Section  2.22(b) or, in the case of a  Borrowing  of an A/C  Fronted  Loan,  the
applicable A/C Fronting Lender and the Administrative  Agent shall have received
a notice requesting such A/C Fronted Loan as required by Section 2.24(b).

         (b) The  representations and warranties set forth in Article III hereof
shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such
Credit Event with the same effect as though made on and as of such date,  except
to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier
date.

         (c) Each Borrower and each other Loan Party shall be in compliance with
all the terms and provisions set forth herein and in each other Loan Document on
its part to be observed or performed,  and at the time of and immediately  after
such Credit  Event,  no Event of Default or Default  shall have  occurred and be
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         Each Credit Event shall be deemed to  constitute a  representation  and
warranty by each  Borrower  on the date of such  Credit  Event as to the matters
specified in paragraphs (b) (except as aforesaid) and (c) of this Section 4.01.

         SECTION 4.02. First Credit Event. On the Closing Date:

                  (a) The Administrative Agent shall have received, on behalf of
         itself,  the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, a favorable written opinion
         of (i) Eric Cohen,  General Counsel of Terex, and counsel for the other
         Borrowers,  substantially  to the effect set forth in Exhibit  L-1, and
         (ii) each local counsel listed on Schedule  4.02(a),  substantially  to
         the effect set forth in Exhibit L-2, in each case (A) dated the Closing
         Date, (B) addressed to the Issuing Banks, the Administrative  Agent and
         the Lenders,  and (C) covering such other matters  relating to the Loan
         Documents  and  the  Transactions  as the  Administrative  Agent  shall
         reasonably  request,  and each Borrower hereby requests such counsel to
         deliver such opinions.

                  (b)  All  legal  matters  incident  to  this  Agreement,   the
         Borrowings  and  extensions  of credit  hereunder  and the  other  Loan
         Documents  shall be  reasonably  satisfactory  to the  Lenders,  to the
         Issuing Banks and to the Administrative Agent.

                  (c) The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a copy of
         the certificate or articles of  incorporation  or other  organizational
         documents,  including  all  amendments  thereto,  of each  Loan  Party,
         certified  as of a  recent  date by the  Secretary  of  State  or other
         Governmental  Authority  of the  state  or  other  jurisdiction  of its
         organization,  and a  certificate  as to the good standing of each Loan
         Party  as of a  recent  date,  from  such  Secretary  of State or other
         Governmental  Authority;   (ii)  a  certificate  of  the  Secretary  or
         Assistant  Secretary  of each Loan  Party  dated the  Closing  Date and
         certifying (A) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the
         By-laws  or other  organizational  documents  of such Loan  Party as in
         effect on the  Closing  Date and at all times since a date prior to the
         date of the  resolutions  described  in  clause  (B)  below,  (B)  that
         attached  thereto  is a true  and  complete  copy of  resolutions  duly
         adopted by the Board of  Directors of such Loan Party  authorizing  the
         execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which such
         person is a party and,  in the case of each  Borrower,  the  borrowings
         hereunder, and that such resolutions have not been modified,  rescinded
         or amended and are in full force and effect,  (C) that the  certificate
         or articles of  incorporation  of such Loan Party have not been amended
         since the date of the last amendment  thereto shown on the  certificate
         of good standing  furnished pursuant to clause (i) above, and (D) as to
         the  incumbency  and specimen  signature of each officer  executing any
         Loan Document or any other document delivered in connection herewith on
         behalf of such Loan Party; (iii) a certificate of another officer as to
         the  incumbency  and specimen  signature of the  Secretary or Assistant
         Secretary  executing the certificate  pursuant to (ii) above;  and (iv)
         such  other  documents  as  the  Lenders,  the  Issuing  Banks  or  the
         Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

                  (d)  The   Administrative   Agent   shall   have   received  a
         certificate,  dated the Closing Date and signed by a Financial  Officer
         of Terex, confirming compliance with the conditions precedent set forth
         in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.01.


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                  (e) The Administrative  Agent shall have received all Fees and
         other  amounts  due  and  payable  on or  prior  to the  Closing  Date,
         including,  to the  extent  invoiced,  reimbursement  or payment of all
         out-of-pocket  expenses  required  to be  reimbursed  or  paid  by  any
         Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document.

                  (f) The Pledge  Agreement shall have been duly executed by the
         parties  thereto and delivered to the Collateral  Agent and shall be in
         full force and effect,  and all the  outstanding  capital  stock of the
         Subsidiaries shall have been duly and validly pledged thereunder to the
         Collateral  Agent for the ratable  benefit of the  Secured  Parties and
         certificates  representing  such shares,  accompanied by instruments of
         transfer  and stock  powers  endorsed in blank,  shall be in the actual
         possession of the Collateral  Agent;  provided that to the extent to do
         so would cause adverse tax consequences to Terex, (i) neither Terex nor
         any Domestic  Subsidiary of Terex shall be required to pledge more than
         65% of the capital stock of any Foreign  Subsidiary and (ii) no Foreign
         Subsidiary  shall be required to pledge the capital stock of any of its
         Foreign Subsidiaries.

                  (g) The Security  Agreement  shall have been duly  executed by
         the Loan  Parties  party  thereto and shall have been  delivered to the
         Collateral Agent and shall be in full force and effect on such date and
         each  document   (including  each  Uniform  Commercial  Code  financing
         statement)   required   by  law   or   reasonably   requested   by  the
         Administrative  Agent to be filed,  registered  or recorded in order to
         create in favor of the Collateral  Agent for the benefit of the Secured
         Parties a valid, legal and perfected  first-priority  security interest
         in and lien on the Collateral  (subject to any Lien expressly permitted
         by Section 6.02)  described in such agreement shall have been delivered
         to the Collateral Agent.

                  (h) The  Collateral  Agent  shall have  received  and shall be
         reasonably  satisfied  with  the  results  of a search  of the  Uniform
         Commercial  Code (or equivalent  filings)  filings made with respect to
         the Loan  Parties in the states (or other  jurisdictions)  in which the
         chief executive  office of each such person is located,  any offices of
         such persons in which  records have been kept  relating to Accounts (as
         defined in the Security Agreement) and the other jurisdictions in which
         Uniform Commercial Code filings (or equivalent  filings) are to be made
         pursuant  to the  preceding  paragraph,  together  with  copies  of the
         financing statements (or similar documents) disclosed by such search.

                  (i) The  Collateral  Agent  shall have  received a  Perfection
         Certificate with respect to the Loan Parties dated the Closing Date and
         duly executed by a Responsible Officer of Terex.

                  (j)(i) Each of the Security  Documents,  in form and substance
         reasonably  satisfactory  to  the  Lenders,  relating  to  each  of the
         Mortgaged  Properties  shall  have been duly  executed  by the  parties
         thereto  and  delivered  to the  Collateral  Agent and shall be in full
         force and effect,  (ii) each of such Mortgaged  Properties shall not be
         subject  to any Lien other than those  permitted  under  Section  6.02,
         (iii)  each of such  Security  Documents  shall  have  been  filed  and
         recorded in the recording office as specified on Schedule 3.19(d) (or a
         lender's title insurance  policy,  in form and substance  acceptable to
         the Collateral  Agent,  insuring such Security Document as a first lien
         on such  Mortgaged  Property  (subject to any Lien permitted by Section
         6.02) shall have been received by the Collateral Agent) and, in



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         connection therewith, the Collateral Agent shall have received evidence
         reasonably  satisfactory  to it of each such filing and recordation and
         (iv) the  Collateral  Agent shall have received  such other  documents,
         including  a  policy  or  policies  of  title  insurance  issued  by  a
         nationally  recognized  title  insurance  company,  together  with such
         endorsements,   coinsurance   and  reinsurance  as  may  be  reasonably
         requested  by the  Collateral  Agent  and  the  Lenders,  insuring  the
         Mortgages  as valid first liens on the  Mortgaged  Properties,  free of
         Liens other than those permitted under Section 6.02, together with such
         surveys,  abstracts  and  appraisals  reasonably  available  and  legal
         opinions  required  to be  furnished  pursuant  to  the  terms  of  the
         Mortgages or as  reasonably  requested by the  Collateral  Agent or the
         Lenders.

                  (k) The Guarantee  Agreements shall have been duly executed by
         the parties thereto,  shall have been delivered to the Collateral Agent
         and shall be in full force and effect.

                  (l) The  Indemnity,  Subrogation  and  Contribution  Agreement
         shall have been duly executed by the parties  thereto,  shall have been
         delivered  to the  Collateral  Agent  and  shall be in full  force  and
         effect.

                  (m) The Administrative Agent shall have received a copy of, or
         a certificate as to coverage under, the insurance  policies required by
         Section 5.02 and the applicable  provisions of the Security  Documents,
         each of which with respect to Terex or any Domestic Subsidiary shall be
         endorsed or  otherwise  amended to include a  "standard"  or "New York"
         lender's loss payable  endorsement and to name the Collateral  Agent as
         additional  insured, in form and substance  reasonably  satisfactory to
         the Administrative Agent.

                  (n) The Lenders shall be reasonably satisfied as to the amount
         and  nature  of  any  environmental  and  employee  health  and  safety
         exposures to which any of Terex and its Subsidiaries may be subject and
         the plans of Terex with respect thereto.

                  (o) The Lenders shall have received  evidence  satisfactory to
         them that (i) Terex shall have  purchased,  or with the proceeds of the
         first Credit Event will  purchase,  at least 75% of the Existing  Notes
         for a  purchase  price  per  Existing  Note not to  exceed  the  amount
         provided  therefor in the Debt Tender Offer by any  material  amount on
         the date  hereof  and  (ii) if less  than all the  Existing  Notes  are
         purchased in the Debt Tender Offer,  the Existing Note Indenture  shall
         have been modified as provided in the Consent Solicitation to eliminate
         all of the  significant  negative  covenants  contained  therein and to
         either (A) release all  collateral  securing the Existing  Notes or (B)
         permit junior liens in favor of the Collateral  Agent on the collateral
         securing  the  Existing  Notes  and  make  cash   collateral  or  other
         arrangements  reasonably  satisfactory to the Administrative Agent with
         respect  thereto and to eliminate any limitation  contained  therein on
         the  Borrowers'  ability to consummate  the  Transactions  and the Debt
         Tender Offer.

                  (p)(i) After giving  effect to the  Refinancing  and the other
         transactions  contemplated  hereby,  the Borrowers and their respective
         Subsidiaries  shall have outstanding no Indebtedness or preferred stock
         other than (A) the extensions of credit under this  Agreement,  (B) the
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         and  (C)  the  Indebtedness  listed  on  Schedule  6.01  and  (ii)  the
         Administrative  Agent shall have received  evidence  satisfactory to it
         that all Indebtedness under the Existing Credit Agreement and the other
         Indebtedness to be refinanced  pursuant to the  Refinancing  shall have
         been  repaid in full or are being  repaid in full with the  proceeds of
         the first Credit Event and any commitments  thereunder  shall have been
         terminated and all Liens with respect thereto shall have been released.

                  (q) All requisite Governmental  Authorities and third parties,
         if any, shall have approved or consented to the Debt Tender Offer,  the
         Refinancing,  the Transactions and the other transactions  contemplated
         hereby to the extent required, all applicable appeal periods shall have
         expired and there shall be no governmental or judicial  action,  actual
         or  threatened,  that  has or could  have a  reasonable  likelihood  of
         restraining, preventing or imposing materially burdensome conditions on
         the Debt Tender Offer, the  Refinancing,  the Transactions or the other
         transactions contemplated hereby.


                                    ARTICLE V

                              Affirmative Covenants

         Each  Borrower  covenants  and agrees  with each Lender that so long as
this  Agreement  shall  remain in effect  and  until the  Commitments  have been
terminated  and the  principal  of and  interest on each Loan,  all Fees and all
other  expenses or amounts  payable under any Loan Document shall have been paid
in full and all  Letters of Credit have been  canceled  or have  expired and all
amounts  drawn  thereunder  have been  reimbursed  in full,  unless the Required
Lenders shall otherwise  consent in writing,  each Borrower will, and will cause
each of its Subsidiaries to:

         SECTION 5.01. Existence;  Businesses and Properties. (a) Do or cause to
be done all  things  necessary  to  preserve,  renew and keep in full  force and
effect  its legal  existence,  except as  otherwise  expressly  permitted  under
Section 6.05.

         (b) Do or cause to be done all things  necessary  to obtain,  preserve,
renew, extend and keep in full force and effect the rights,  licenses,  permits,
franchises,  authorizations,  patents,  copyrights,  trademarks  and trade names
material to the conduct of its  business;  maintain and operate such business in
substantially  the manner in which it is presently  conducted and operated or in
an otherwise prudent manner; comply in all material respects with all applicable
laws, rules,  regulations  (including any zoning,  building,  Environmental Law,
ordinance,  code or  approval or any  building  permits or any  restrictions  of
record or agreements affecting the Mortgaged  Properties) and decrees and orders
of any Governmental Authority, whether now in effect or hereafter enacted unless
failure  to comply  could not  reasonably  be  expected  to result in a Material
Adverse Effect;  and at all times maintain and preserve all property material to
the  conduct  of such  business  and keep such  property  in  working  order and
condition  and from time to time  make,  or cause to be made,  all  needful  and
proper repairs,  renewals,  additions,  improvements  and  replacements  thereto
necessary in order that the business  carried on in connection  therewith may be
conducted at all times in a commercially reasonably manner.


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         SECTION 5.02.  Insurance.  (a) Keep its insurable properties adequately
insured at all times by financially sound and reputable insurers;  maintain such
other  insurance  (including  self  insurance),  to such extent and against such
risks,  including fire and other risks insured against by extended coverage,  as
is customary with companies in the same or similar  businesses  operating in the
same or  similar  locations  and of  same  or  similar  size,  including  public
liability  insurance  against  claims for  personal  injury or death or property
damage occurring upon, in, about or in connection with the use of any properties
owned, occupied or controlled by it; and maintain such other insurance as may be
required by law.

         (b) Cause all such  policies of Terex or any Domestic  Subsidiary to be
endorsed or  otherwise  amended to include a "standard"  or "New York"  lender's
loss payable endorsement,  in form and substance reasonably  satisfactory to the
Administrative  Agent and the Collateral Agent,  which endorsement shall provide
that,  from and after the Closing  Date,  if the  insurance  carrier  shall have
received written notice from the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent of
the  occurrence  of an Event of Default,  the  insurance  carrier  shall pay all
proceeds otherwise payable to Terex or any such Loan Parties under such policies
directly to the  Collateral  Agent;  cause all such  policies to provide that no
Borrower,  the  Administrative  Agent,  the Collateral Agent nor any other party
shall be a coinsurer thereunder and to contain a "Replacement Cost Endorsement",
without  any  deduction  for  depreciation,  and such  other  provisions  as the
Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent may reasonably require from time to
time to protect their  interests;  deliver  original or certified  copies of all
such policies to the Collateral Agent; cause each such policy to provide that it
shall not be  canceled,  modified or not  renewed for any other  reason upon not
less  than  30  days'  prior  written  notice  thereof  by  the  insurer  to the
Administrative  Agent and the Collateral  Agent;  deliver to the  Administrative
Agent  and the  Collateral  Agent,  prior to the  cancelation,  modification  or
nonrenewal of any such policy of insurance,  a copy of a renewal or  replacement
policy (or other  evidence of renewal of a policy  previously  delivered  to the
Administrative   Agent  and  the  Collateral   Agent)   together  with  evidence
satisfactory to the Administrative  Agent and the Collateral Agent of payment of
the premium therefor.

         (c) If at any time the area in which the  Premises  (as  defined in the
Mortgages)  are located is  designated  (i) a "flood  hazard  area" in any Flood
Insurance Rate Map published by the Federal Emergency  Management Agency (or any
successor  agency),   obtain  flood  insurance  in  such  total  amount  as  the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders may from time
to time require,  and otherwise comply with the National Flood Insurance Program
as set forth in the Flood Disaster  Protection Act of 1973, as it may be amended
from time to time, or (ii) a "Zone 1" area, obtain earthquake  insurance in such
total amount as the  Administrative  Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Required
Lenders may from time to time require.

         (d)  With  respect  to  any  Mortgaged  Property,  carry  and  maintain
comprehensive   general  liability  insurance  including  the  "broad  form  CGL
endorsement"  and  coverage  on an  occurrence  basis  against  claims  made for
personal  injury  (including  bodily  injury,  death and  property  damage)  and
umbrella  liability  insurance  against  any and all  claims,  in no event for a
combined  single limit of less than that in effect on the Closing  Date,  naming
the Collateral Agent as an additional insured, on forms reasonably  satisfactory
to the Collateral Agent.

         (e)  Notify  the   Administrative   Agent  and  the  Collateral   Agent
immediately  whenever any separate insurance  concurrent in form or contributing
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is taken out by any Borrower;  and promptly deliver to the Administrative  Agent
and the Collateral Agent a duplicate original copy of such policy or policies.

         (f) In connection with the covenants set forth in this Section 5.02, it
is understood and agreed that:

                  (i) none of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing
         Banks, or their respective  agents or employees shall be liable for any
         loss  or  damage  insured  by the  insurance  policies  required  to be
         maintained  under this Section 5.02, it being  understood that (A) each
         Borrower  and the  other  Loan  Parties  shall  look  solely  to  their
         insurance  companies  or any other  parties  other  than the  aforesaid
         parties for the recovery of such loss or damage and (B) such  insurance
         companies   shall   have  no  rights   of   subrogation   against   the
         Administrative  Agent, the Collateral  Agent, the Lenders,  the Issuing
         Banks or their agents or employees. If, however, the insurance policies
         do not provide  waiver of subrogation  rights against such parties,  as
         required  above,  then  each  Borrower  hereby  agrees,  to the  extent
         permitted by law, to waive its right of recovery,  if any,  against the
         Administrative  Agent, the Collateral  Agent, the Lenders,  the Issuing
         Banks and their agents and employees; and

                  (ii) the  designation of any form, type or amount of insurance
         coverage  by the  Administrative  Agent,  the  Collateral  Agent or the
         Required  Lenders under this Section 5.02 shall in no event be deemed a
         representation,  warranty or advice by the  Administrative  Agent,  the
         Collateral Agent or the Lenders that such insurance is adequate for the
         purposes of the business of any Borrower  and its  Subsidiaries  or the
         protection  of  their  properties  and the  Administrative  Agent,  the
         Collateral  Agent and the  Required  Lenders  shall have the right from
         time to time to require  the  Borrowers  and the other Loan  Parties to
         keep  other  insurance  in such form and  amount as the  Administrative
         Agent,  the  Collateral  Agent or the Required  Lenders may  reasonably
         request;   provided  that  such   insurance   shall  be  obtainable  on
         commercially reasonable terms.

         SECTION 5.03.  Obligations and Taxes.  Pay its  Indebtedness  and other
obligations  promptly and in  accordance  with their terms and pay and discharge
promptly  when due all taxes,  assessments  and  governmental  charges or levies
imposed  upon it or upon its income or  profits  or in respect of its  property,
before the same shall  become  delinquent  or in default,  as well as all lawful
claims for labor,  materials and supplies or otherwise  that,  if unpaid,  could
reasonably  be expected to give rise to a Lien upon such  properties or any part
thereof;  provided,  however,  that  such  payment  and  discharge  shall not be
required with respect to any such obligation,  tax, assessment,  charge, levy or
claim so long as the validity or amount thereof shall be contested in good faith
by appropriate  proceedings and the applicable  Borrower shall have set aside on
its books reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and such contest
operates to suspend collection of the contested  obligation,  tax, assessment or
charge and enforcement of a Lien and, in the case of a Mortgaged Property, there
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         SECTION 5.04. Financial Statements, Reports, etc. In the case of Terex,
furnish to the Administrative Agent for distribution by the Administrative Agent
to each Lender:

                  (a)  within 90 days  after the end of each  fiscal  year,  its
         consolidated and consolidating balance sheets and related statements of
         operations,  stockholders'  equity and cash flows showing the financial
         condition of Terex and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the close of
         such fiscal year and the results of its  operations  and the operations
         of such Subsidiaries  during such year, all audited by Price Waterhouse
         L.L.P. or other independent public  accountants of recognized  national
         standing or otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders and
         accompanied  by an  opinion  of such  accountants  (which  shall not be
         qualified in any material respect) to the effect that such consolidated
         financial statements fairly present the financial condition and results
         of  operations  of  Terex  and  its  consolidated   Subsidiaries  on  a
         consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;

                  (b)  within 45 days  after the end of each of the first  three
         fiscal quarters of each fiscal year, its consolidated and consolidating
         balance  sheets and related  statements  of  operations,  stockholders'
         equity and cash flows showing the financial  condition of Terex and its
         consolidated  Subsidiaries  as of the close of such fiscal  quarter and
         the results of its operations  and the operations of such  Subsidiaries
         during such fiscal  quarter and the then elapsed  portion of the fiscal
         year,  all  certified  by one  of  its  Financial  Officers  as  fairly
         presenting in all material respects the financial condition and results
         of  operations  of  Terex  and  its  consolidated   Subsidiaries  on  a
         consolidated  basis  in  accordance  with  GAAP  consistently  applied,
         subject to normal year-end audit adjustments;

                  (c)  concurrently  with any delivery of  financial  statements
         under sub-  paragraph (a) or (b) above, a certificate of the accounting
         firm  (unless  at  such  time it is the  practice  and  policy  of such
         accounting firm not to deliver such  certificates) or Financial Officer
         opining on or  certifying  such  statements  (which  certificate,  when
         furnished by an accounting  firm, may be limited to accounting  matters
         and disclaim  responsibility for legal  interpretations) (i) certifying
         that no Event of Default or Default has  occurred  or, if such an Event
         of Default or Default has  occurred,  specifying  the nature and extent
         thereof and any  corrective  action  taken or proposed to be taken with
         respect  thereto;  and (ii) in the case of any such  letter  from  such
         Financial  Officer,  setting  forth  reasonably  detailed  calculations
         demonstrating compliance with Sections 6.10, 6.11, 6.12 and 6.13;

                  (d) promptly after the same become publicly available,  copies
         of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials
         filed by Terex or any  Subsidiary  with  the  Securities  and  Exchange
         Commission,  or any Governmental  Authority succeeding to any or all of
         the  functions  of said  Commission,  or with any  national  securities
         exchange, or distributed to its shareholders, as the case may be;

                  (e) as promptly as practicable,  but in no event later than 10
         Business  Days after the last day of each fiscal year of Terex,  a copy
         of the budget for its consolidated balance sheet and related statements
         of income and selected working capital and capital expenditure analyses
         for each quarter of the following fiscal year; and


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                  (f)  promptly,  from  time to  time,  such  other  information
         regarding the operations,  business affairs and financial  condition of
         Terex or any  Subsidiary,  or  compliance  with  the  terms of any Loan
         Document,  as the  Administrative  Agent or any Lender  may  reasonably
         request.

         SECTION   5.05.   Litigation   and  Other   Notices.   Furnish  to  the
Administrative  Agent,  the  Issuing  Banks  and  each  Lender,  promptly  after
obtaining knowledge thereof, written notice of the following:

                  (a) any Event of Default or Default, specifying the nature and
         extent thereof and the corrective  action (if any) taken or proposed to
         be taken with respect thereto;

                  (b) the filing or commencement  of, or any threat or notice of
         intention  of any  person  to file or  commence,  any  action,  suit or
         proceeding,   whether  at  law  or  in  equity  or  by  or  before  any
         Governmental  Authority,  against any Borrower or any Affiliate thereof
         that could  reasonably  be  expected  to result in a  Material  Adverse
         Effect; and

                  (c) any  development  with respect to Terex or any  Subsidiary
         that has resulted in, or could  reasonably  be expected to result in, a
         Material Adverse Effect.

         SECTION 5.06.  Employee  Benefits.  (a) Comply in all material respects
with the applicable  provisions of ERISA and the Code and the laws applicable to
any Foreign Benefit Plan and (b) furnish to the Administrative Agent (i) as soon
as possible after, and in any event within 10 days after any Responsible Officer
of any Borrower or any Affiliate  knows that any ERISA Event has occurred  that,
alone or together  with any other ERISA  Event could  reasonably  be expected to
result in liability of any Borrower in an aggregate amount exceeding  $5,000,000
(or the Dollar  Equivalent  thereof  in  another  currency),  a  statement  of a
Financial  Officer of such Borrower setting forth details as to such ERISA Event
and the  action,  if any,  that such  Borrower  proposes  to take  with  respect
thereto.

         SECTION  5.07.   Maintaining   Records;   Access  to   Properties   and
Inspections.  Keep proper  books of record and  account in which full,  true and
correct  entries  in  conformity  in all  material  respects  with  GAAP and all
requirements of law are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its
business  and  activities.  Each Loan  Party  will,  and will  cause each of its
Subsidiaries  to, permit any  representatives  designated by the  Administrative
Agent  or any  Lender  to  visit  and  inspect  the  financial  records  and the
properties of any Borrower or any Subsidiary at reasonable times and as often as
reasonably  requested (but in no event more than twice annually  unless an Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing)  and to make extracts from and
copies of such financial records,  and permit any representatives  designated by
the  Administrative  Agent or any Lender to discuss the  affairs,  finances  and
condition  of any  Borrower  or any  Subsidiary  with the  officers  thereof and
independent accountants therefor.

         SECTION  5.08.  Use of  Proceeds.  Use the  proceeds  of the  Loans and
request the issuance of Letters of Credit only for the purposes set forth in the
preamble to this Agreement.

         SECTION 5.09. Compliance with Environmental Laws. Comply, and cause all
lessees and other persons  occupying its  Properties to comply,  in all material
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operations and Properties;  obtain and renew all Environmental Permits necessary
for its operations and Properties; and conduct any Remedial Action in accordance
with  Environmental  Laws;  provided,  however,  that no Borrower nor any of the
Subsidiaries  shall be required to undertake  any Remedial  Action to the extent
that its  obligation  to do so is being  contested  in good  faith and by proper
proceedings and appropriate  reserves are being  maintained with respect to such
circumstances in accordance with GAAP.

         SECTION 5.10.  Preparation  of  Environmental  Reports.  If an Event of
Default caused by reason of a breach of Section 3.17 or 5.09 shall have occurred
and  be  continuing,  at  the  request  of  the  Required  Lenders  through  the
Administrative  Agent, provide to the Lenders within 45 days after such request,
at the expense of the applicable  Borrower,  an  environmental  site  assessment
report for the Properties which are the subject of such default,  prepared by an
environmental  consulting firm reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent
and indicating the presence or absence of Hazardous  Materials and the estimated
cost of any  Remedial  Action  or any  other  activity  required  to  bring  the
Properties  into  compliance  with  Environmental  Laws in connection  with such
Properties.

         SECTION  5.11.  Further  Assurances.  (a)  Execute  any and all further
documents,  financing  statements,  agreements  and  instruments,  and  take all
further action  (including  filing Uniform  Commercial  Code and other financing
statements,  mortgages and deeds of trust) that may be required under applicable
law, or that the Required Lenders,  the  Administrative  Agent or the Collateral
Agent  may  reasonably   request,   in  order  to  effectuate  the  transactions
contemplated by the Loan Documents and in order to grant, preserve,  protect and
perfect the validity and first  priority of the  security  interests  created or
intended  to be  created  by  the  Security  Documents.  Terex  will  cause  any
subsequently  acquired or organized Domestic  Subsidiary (other than an Inactive
Subsidiary) to execute a Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement,  Indemnity  Subrogation
and Contribution Agreement and each applicable Security Document in favor of the
Collateral  Agent. In addition,  from time to time,  Terex will, at its cost and
expense,  promptly secure the Obligations by pledging or creating, or causing to
be pledged or created,  perfected security interests with respect to such of its
assets and properties as the Administrative  Agent or the Required Lenders shall
reasonably  designate (it being  understood that it is the intent of the parties
that the Obligations shall be secured by, among other things,  substantially all
the assets of Terex (including real and other properties  acquired subsequent to
the Closing Date)).  Such security interests and Liens will be created under the
Security Documents and other security agreements,  mortgages, deeds of trust and
other instruments and documents in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the  Collateral  Agent,  and Terex shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Lenders all such  instruments and documents  (including  legal  opinions,  title
insurance  policies and lien searches) as the Collateral  Agent shall reasonably
request to evidence compliance with this Section.

         (b) In the case of Terex and the  Subsidiary  Guarantors,  promptly  to
notify the  Collateral  Agent in writing of any change (i) in its corporate name
or in any trade name used to identify  it in the  conduct of its  business or in
the  ownership of its  properties,  (ii) in the location of its chief  executive
office, its principal place of business,  any office in which it maintains books
or records relating to Collateral owned by it or any office or facility at which
Collateral owned by it is located  (including the  establishment of any such new
office or facility), (iii) in its identity or corporate structure or (iv) in its
Federal  Taxpayer  Identification  Number.  Terex and each Subsidiary  Guarantor
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any change  referred to in the preceding  sentence  unless all filings have been
made under the Uniform  Commercial  Code or otherwise that are required in order
for the Collateral  Agent to continue at all times following such change to have
a valid,  legal  and  perfected  first  priority  security  interest  in all the
Collateral.  Terex and each Subsidiary  Guarantor  agrees promptly to notify the
Collateral Agent if any material portion of the Collateral owned or held by such
Borrower is damaged or destroyed.

         (c) On or  before  the  date  that is 90 days  after  the  date of this
Agreement,  the Borrowers shall cause all Indebtedness  with respect to the Fiat
Collateral to be repaid in full and the financing  arrangements  existing on the
date hereof with respect to such Fiat Collateral to be terminated.

         (d) On or  before  the  date  that is 180 days  after  the date of this
Agreement,  Terex will either (i) if the Acquisition is  consummated,  cause its
wholly owned Subsidiary Unit Rig (S.A.) Pty. Ltd. to be merged with and into the
German Borrower with the German Borrower as the surviving  entity or (ii) pledge
65% of the capital stock of Unit Rig (S.A.) Pty. Ltd. to the Secured Parties.

         SECTION  5.12.  Interest  Rate  Protection  Agreements.  In the case of
Terex,  within 90 days  following  the Closing  Date,  enter into  Interest Rate
Protection   Agreements,   with  counterparties  and  on  terms  and  conditions
reasonably  satisfactory  to the  Administrative  Agent,  pursuant  to which the
interest rate with respect to a notional amount equal to at least 50% of the sum
of (a) the Term Loans and (b) the Senior Subordinated Notes, if any, is fixed.


                                   ARTICLE VI

                               Negative Covenants

         Each  Borrower  covenants  and agrees with each Lender that, so long as
this  Agreement  shall  remain in effect  and  until the  Commitments  have been
terminated  and the  principal  of and  interest on each Loan,  all Fees and all
other expenses or amounts payable under any Loan Document have been paid in full
and all Letters of Credit have been  cancelled  or have  expired and all amounts
drawn thereunder have been reimbursed in full, unless the Required Lenders shall
otherwise  consent in writing,  such  Borrower  will not,  and will not cause or
permit any of the Subsidiaries to:

         SECTION 6.01.  Indebtedness.  Incur, create,  assume or permit to exist
any  Indebtedness,  except that the Borrower and any  Subsidiary  (other than an
Inactive Subsidiary) may incur, create, assume or permit to exist:

                  (a)  Indebtedness  for  borrowed  money  existing  on the date
         hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.01;

                  (b)  Indebtedness  created  hereunder and under the other Loan
         Documents;

                  (c) in the case of Terex,  the Senior  Subordinated  Notes and
         Additional  Subordinated Notes;  provided that the proceeds thereof are
         used to prepay the Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.13(e) or to finance


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         the Acquisition or other Permitted Acquisitions;

                  (d) Indebtedness pursuant to Hedging Agreements;

                  (e)  Indebtedness  of Terex  or any  wholly  owned  Subsidiary
         (other  than  an  Inactive   Subsidiary)  to  any  other  wholly  owned
         Subsidiary (other than an Inactive Subsidiary),  or of any wholly owned
         Subsidiary (other than an Inactive Subsidiary) to Terex;  provided that
         any such  Indebtedness  of a Loan Party  shall be  subordinated  to the
         prior payment in full of the Obligations;

                  (f)  Indebtedness  resulting  from  endorsement  of negotiable
         instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business;

                  (g) Indebtedness  arising under indemnity  agreements to title
         insurers to cause such title insurers to issue to the Collateral  Agent
         mortgagee title insurance policies;

                  (h)   Indebtedness   arising   with   respect   to   customary
         indemnification and purchase price adjustment  obligations  incurred in
         connection  with  Asset  Sales  and  Permitted  Acquisitions  permitted
         hereunder;

                  (i)  Indebtedness  incurred in the ordinary course of business
         with respect to surety and appeal  bonds,  performance,  insurance  and
         return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations;

                  (j)  Indebtedness  consisting of (i) Acquired  Indebtedness or
         (ii) Purchase Money Indebtedness or Capital Lease Obligations  incurred
         in the ordinary  course of business  after the Closing  Date;  provided
         that the aggregate  principal amount of any such Indebtedness  pursuant
         to this paragraph (j) shall not exceed $30,000,000;

                  (k)  Indebtedness  of O&K  Mining  existing  on the  date  the
         Acquisition  is  consummated;  provided  that the  aggregate  principal
         amount of any such  Indebtedness  pursuant to this  paragraph (k) shall
         not exceed DM17,500,000;

                  (l)  Floor Plan Guarantees;

                  (m) Indebtedness  incurred under the Italian  Facilities in an
         amount not  exceeding  Lit12,850,000,000  in the  aggregate at any time
         outstanding;

                  (n)  Indebtedness  incurred  to  extend,  renew  or  refinance
         Indebtedness  described in paragraph  (a),  (c),  (j), (k) or (l) above
         ("Refinancing   Indebtedness")   so  long  as  (i)   such   Refinancing
         Indebtedness is in an aggregate  principal  amount not greater than the
         aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness being extended,  renewed
         or refinanced,  plus the amount of any interest or premiums required to
         be paid thereon plus fees and expenses associated therewith,  (ii) such
         Refinancing  Indebtedness  has a later or equal  final  maturity  and a
         longer  or equal  weighted  average  life than the  Indebtedness  being
         extended,  renewed  or  refinanced,  (iii)  if the  Indebtedness  being
         extended, renewed or refinanced is subordinated to the Obligations, the
         Refinancing  Indebtedness  is  subordinated  to the  Obligations to the
         extent of the  Indebtedness  being extended,  renewed or refinanced and
         (iv) the covenants, events of default and other non-pricing provisions


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         of the  Refinancing  Indebtedness  shall  be no less  favorable  to the
         Lenders  than  those  contained  in the  Indebtedness  being  extended,
         renewed or refinanced;

                  (o)  Indebtedness  classified  as  Capital  Lease  Obligations
         incurred in connection with the purchase of inventory to be sold in the
         ordinary course of business;

                  (p) Indebtedness related to the Fiat Collateral; and

                  (q) other  unsecured  Indebtedness  in an aggregate  principal
         amount not exceeding $5,000,000 at any time outstanding.

         SECTION 6.02. Liens. Create,  incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien
on any property or assets  (including  stock or other  securities of any person,
including any Subsidiary) now owned or hereafter acquired by it or on any income
or revenues or rights in respect of any thereof, except:

                  (a)  Liens on  property  or  assets  of any  Borrower  and its
         Subsidiaries  existing  on the date  hereof  and set forth in  Schedule
         6.02;  provided  that such Liens shall  secure  only those  obligations
         which they secure on the date hereof;

                  (b) any Lien created under the Loan Documents;

                  (c) any Lien  existing  on any  property or asset prior to the
         acquisition  thereof by any Borrower or any  Subsidiary;  provided that
         (i) such Lien is not created in  contemplation of or in connection with
         such  acquisition,  (ii) such Lien does not apply to any other property
         or assets of any  Borrower or any  Subsidiary  and (iii) such Lien does
         not (A) materially  interfere with the use,  occupancy and operation of
         any Mortgaged Property,  (B) materially reduce the fair market value of
         such Mortgaged Property but for such Lien or (C) result in any material
         increase in the cost of operating,  occupying or owning or leasing such
         Mortgaged Property;

                  (d) Liens  for taxes not yet due or which are being  contested
         in compliance with Section 5.03;

                  (e)  carriers',  warehousemen's,   mechanics',  materialmen's,
         repairmen's  or other like  Liens  arising  in the  ordinary  course of
         business and securing obligations that are not due and payable or which
         are being contested in compliance with Section 5.03;

                  (f)  pledges  and  deposits  made in the  ordinary  course  of
         business  in  compliance  with  workmen's  compensation,   unemployment
         insurance and other social security laws or regulations;

                  (g) (i)  deposits  to secure the  performance  of bids,  trade
         contracts  (other than for  Indebtedness),  leases  (other than Capital
         Lease  Obligations),  statutory  obligations,  surety and appeal bonds,
         performance  bonds and other  obligations of a like nature  incurred in
         the ordinary  course of business and (ii) Liens on the  receivables  of
         the Scottish Borrower to secure Indebtedness of the Scottish Borrower


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         in respect of performance bonds and similar obligations in an aggregate
         principal amount not to exceed (pound)3,000,000;

                  (h)    zoning    restrictions,    easements,    rights-of-way,
         restrictions  on use of real  property and other  similar  encumbrances
         incurred in the ordinary  course of business  which,  in the aggregate,
         are not  substantial in amount and do not  materially  detract from the
         value of the property  subject  thereto or interfere  with the ordinary
         conduct of the business of any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

                  (i)  purchase  money  security  interests  in  real  property,
         improvements  thereto or equipment  hereafter acquired (or, in the case
         of improvements,  constructed) by any Borrower or any Subsidiary (other
         than  an  Inactive   Subsidiary)   or  in  respect  of  Capital   Lease
         Obligations;   provided  that  (i)  such  security   interests   secure
         Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01(j), (ii) such security interests
         are incurred,  and the Indebtedness secured thereby is created,  within
         90  days  after  such   acquisition   (or   construction),   (iii)  the
         Indebtedness  secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the lesser of the
         cost or the fair market value of such real  property,  improvements  or
         equipment at the time of such  acquisition (or  construction)  and (iv)
         such security interests do not apply to any other property or assets of
         any Borrower or any Subsidiary;

                  (j) Liens  arising from the  rendering of a final  judgment or
         order that does not give rise to an Event of Default;

                  (k) Liens securing  Acquired  Indebtedness;  provided that (i)
         such Acquired Indebtedness was secured by such Liens at the time of the
         relevant  Permitted  Acquisition  and such Liens were not  incurred  in
         contemplation  thereof  and (ii)  such  Liens do not  extend to (x) any
         property of Terex or the Subsidiaries  (other than the Acquired Person)
         or (y) to any property of the  Acquired  Person other than the property
         securing such Liens on the date of the relevant Permitted Acquisition;

                  (l) Liens  securing  Refinancing  Indebtedness,  to the extent
         that the  Indebtedness  being  refinanced  was  originally  secured  in
         accordance  with this Section  6.02;  provided  that such Lien does not
         apply to any additional property or assets of Terex or any Subsidiary;

                  (m)  Liens in favor of Terex; and

                  (n)  Liens relating to the Fiat Collateral.

         SECTION  6.03.  Sale  and  Lease-Back  Transactions.   Enter  into  any
arrangement,  directly or  indirectly,  with any person whereby it shall sell or
transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether
now owned or hereafter  acquired,  and thereafter rent or lease such property or
other  property  which it intends to use for  substantially  the same purpose or
purposes as the property  being sold or  transferred  (a "Sale and  Leaseback");
provided that any Borrower or any Subsidiary may enter into any such transaction
to the extent that the Capital Lease Obligations and Liens associated  therewith
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         SECTION  6.04.  Investments,  Loans  and  Advances.  Purchase,  hold or
acquire any capital stock,  evidences of  indebtedness  or other  securities of,
make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, or make or permit to exist any
investment or any other interest in, any other person, except:

                  (a) investments by Terex and its Subsidiaries  existing on the
         date  hereof  in the  capital  stock  of  the  Subsidiaries  and  other
         investments by Terex and its  Subsidiaries  existing on the date hereof
         and set forth in Schedule 6.04;

                  (b) Permitted Investments;

                  (c)  Terex  may  make the  Acquisition;  provided  that  Terex
         complies  and  causes  O&K  Mining  to  comply,   with  the  applicable
         provisions of Section 5.11;

                  (d) Terex may make any  Permitted  Acquisition;  provided that
         Terex  complies,  and causes any  acquired  entity to comply,  with the
         applicable  provisions of Section 5.11 and the Security  Documents with
         respect to the person or assets so acquired;

                  (e) the Borrowers  and their  respective  Subsidiaries  (other
         than  Inactive  Subsidiaries)  may make loans and advances to employees
         for moving,  entertainment,  travel and other  similar  expenses in the
         ordinary  course of business not to exceed  $1,000,000 in the aggregate
         at any time outstanding;

                  (f) Capital Expenditures permitted pursuant to Section 6.10;

                  (g) cash collateral  provided to the Collateral Agent pursuant
         to the Loan Documents;

                  (h)  promissory  notes issued by any  purchaser in  connection
         with any Asset Sale permitted pursuant to Section 6.05(b);

                  (i)  provided  that no Default or Event of Default  shall have
         occurred and be  continuing at the time of such payment or after giving
         effect thereto, (A) the purchase by Terex of shares of its common stock
         (for not more than fair market value) in  connection  with the delivery
         of such  stock to  grantees  under  any  stock  option  plan  (upon the
         exercise by such grantees of their stock options) or any other deferred
         compensation  plan of Terex  approved by the Board of Directors and (B)
         the  repurchase of shares of, or options to purchase  shares of, common
         stock  of  Terex  or any of its  Subsidiaries  from  employees,  former
         employees,  directors  or  former  directors  of  Terex  or  any of its
         Subsidiaries  (or  permitted  transferees  of  such  employees,  former
         employees,  directors or former directors) pursuant to the terms of the
         agreements  (including  employment  agreements) or plans (or amendments
         thereto)   approved  by  the  Board  of  Directors   under  which  such
         individuals  purchase  or sell or are granted the option to purchase or
         sell, such common stock; provided that the aggregate amount of all such
         purchases and repurchases  permitted under this paragraph (i) shall not
         exceed  $1,200,000  per year or $8,400,000 in the aggregate  during the
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                  (j)  accounts  receivable  arising in the  ordinary  course of
         business from the sale of inventory;

                  (k) Guarantees constituting  Indebtedness permitted by Section
         6.01;

                  (l) investments in joint ventures in Related  Businesses in an
         aggregate amount not exceeding $15,000,000 at any time outstanding;

                  (m) intercompany loans and advances constituting  Indebtedness
         permitted by Section 6.01(e); and

                  (n) other  investments  in an aggregate  amount not  exceeding
         $10,000,000 at any time outstanding.

         SECTION   6.05.   Mergers,   Consolidations,   Sales  of   Assets   and
Acquisitions. (a) Merge into or consolidate with any other person, or permit any
other person to merge into or consolidate with it, or sell,  transfer,  lease or
otherwise  dispose of (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or
any substantial part of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter  acquired) or
any capital stock of any Subsidiary, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire (in
one transaction or a series of  transactions)  all or  substantially  all of the
assets of any other  person,  except that (i) any  Borrower  and any  Subsidiary
(other than an Inactive  Subsidiary)  may  purchase  and sell  inventory  in the
ordinary  course of business  and (ii) if at the time  thereof  and  immediately
after giving  effect  thereto no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred
and be  continuing  (A) any wholly  owned  Subsidiary  may merge into Terex in a
transaction  in which Terex is the surviving  corporation,  (B) any wholly owned
Subsidiary may merge into or consolidate  with any other wholly owned Subsidiary
that is a Guarantor in a transaction  in which the surviving  entity is a wholly
owned  Subsidiary that is a Guarantor and no person other than Terex or a wholly
owned  Subsidiary  that is a Guarantor  receives  any  consideration  and (C) in
connection with any Permitted Acquisition pursuant to Section 6.04(d),  Terex or
any wholly  owned  Subsidiary  that is a Guarantor  may acquire or merge into or
consolidate with any entity acquired pursuant to such Permitted Acquisition in a
transaction in which the surviving  entity is Terex or a wholly owned Subsidiary
that is a Guarantor.

         (b)  Engage in any  Asset  Sale not  otherwise  prohibited  by  Section
6.05(a) unless all of the following  conditions  are met: (i) the  consideration
received  is at least  equal to the fair market  value of such  assets;  (ii) at
least 80% of the consideration  received is cash; (iii) the Net Cash Proceeds of
such Asset Sale are applied as required by Section  2.13(b);  (iv) after  giving
effect to the sale or other  disposition of the assets included within the Asset
Sale and the repayment of Indebtedness  with the proceeds  thereof,  Terex is in
compliance on a pro forma basis with the  covenants set forth in Sections  6.11,
6.12 and 6.13  recomputed  for the most recently  ended fiscal quarter for which
information  is  available  and  is in  compliance  with  all  other  terms  and
conditions  contained in this Agreement;  and (v) no Default or Event of Default
shall result from such Asset Sale.

         SECTION 6.06.  Dividends and Distributions;  Restrictions on Ability of
Subsidiaries to Pay Dividends.  (a) Declare or pay, directly or indirectly,  any
dividend or make any other  distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise),
whether in cash, property,  securities or a combination thereof, with respect to
any shares of its  capital  stock or directly or  indirectly  redeem,  purchase,
retire or otherwise acquire for value (or permit any Subsidiary to purchase


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or acquire) any shares of any class of its capital stock or set aside any amount
for any such purpose; provided, however, that (i) any Subsidiary may declare and
pay  dividends  or make other  distributions  to the  Borrower  of which it is a
Subsidiary  and (ii) Terex may pay dividends on, and redeem and  repurchase  its
capital stock, provided that all of the following conditions are satisfied:  (A)
at the time of such  dividend,  redemption  or purchase and after giving  effect
thereto,  no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would
arise as a result  thereof;  (B) the amount of all  dividends,  redemptions  and
purchases made pursuant to this clause (ii) together with all  distributions and
payments made pursuant to Section 6.09(b)(i),  during the term of this Agreement
shall not  exceed  $25,000,000,  and (c) on a pro forma  basis and after  giving
effect to such  payment and all other  payments  pursuant to this clause (a) and
Section 6.09(b)(i) made after the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for
which financial  statements  have been delivered  pursuant to Section 5.04(a) or
(b), as  applicable,  as if such payments  were made in the  four-fiscal-quarter
period ending on such last day of such fiscal quarter, the Consolidated Leverage
Ratio as of the end of such four- fiscal-quarter  period shall be less than 3.85
to 1.00 and  provided  further  that  Terex may at any time pay  dividends  with
respect to its capital stock solely in additional shares of its capital stock.

         (b) Permit its  Subsidiaries  to,  directly  or  indirectly,  create or
otherwise  cause or suffer  to exist or  become  effective  any  encumbrance  or
restriction  on the ability of any such  Subsidiary  to (i) pay any dividends or
make any other  distributions on its capital stock or any other interest or (ii)
make or repay any loans or advances to Terex or the parent of such Subsidiary.

         SECTION  6.07.  Transactions  with  Affiliates.  Sell or  transfer  any
property or assets to, or purchase or acquire any  property or assets  from,  or
otherwise engage in any other transactions  with, any of its Affiliates,  except
that  any  Borrower  or any  Subsidiary  may  engage  in  any  of the  foregoing
transactions  in the  ordinary  course of  business  at prices  and on terms and
conditions not less favorable to such Borrower or such  Subsidiary than could be
obtained on an arm's-length basis from unrelated third parties,  and except that
this Section shall not apply to any  transaction  between or among Borrowers and
Guarantors.

         SECTION  6.08.  Business of Borrowers and  Subsidiaries.  Engage at any
time in any business or business activity other than the Related Business.

         SECTION 6.09. Other Indebtedness and Agreements. (a) Permit any waiver,
supplement,  modification,  amendment,  termination or release of any indenture,
instrument or agreement  pursuant to which any  Indebtedness  of any Borrower or
any  Subsidiary  in an aggregate  principal  amount in excess of  $5,000,000  is
outstanding if the effect of such waiver, supplement,  modification,  amendment,
termination   or  release  is  to  (i)  increase  the  interest   rate  on  such
Indebtedness;  (ii)  accelerate  the dates upon which  payments of  principal or
interest are due on such Indebtedness;  (iii) add or change any event of default
or add any material covenant with respect to such Indebtedness;  (iv) change the
prepayment provisions of such Indebtedness in any manner adverse to the Lenders;
(v) change the subordination  provisions thereof (or the subordination  terms of
any Guarantee thereof); or (vi) change or amend any other term if such change or
amendment  would  materially  increase the  obligations of the obligor or confer
additional  material  rights  on the  holder  of such  Indebtedness  in a manner
adverse  to any  Borrower,  any  Subsidiary,  the  Administrative  Agent  or the
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         (b)(i) Make any distribution,  whether in cash, property, securities or
a combination  thereof,  other than regular scheduled  payments of principal and
interest  as  and  when  due  (to  the  extent  not   prohibited  by  applicable
subordination provisions),  in respect of, or pay, or offer or commit to pay, or
directly or  indirectly  redeem,  repurchase,  retire or  otherwise  acquire for
consideration, or set apart any sum for the aforesaid purposes, any Indebtedness
for  borrowed  money  (other than the Loans) of any  Borrower or any  Subsidiary
except that (A) subject to Section 2.13(c),  Terex shall be permitted to use the
Net Cash  Proceeds of any Equity  Issuance to prepay not more than  one-third of
the  Senior  Subordinated  Notes or any  other  Indebtedness,  (B) Terex and its
Subsidiaries  shall be permitted to make any such distribution or payment if all
of the following conditions are satisfied:  (1) at the time of such distribution
or payment and after giving effect  thereto,  no Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or would arise as a result thereof; (2) the amount of
all such  distributions  and payments made pursuant to this clause (i), together
with  all  dividends,   redemptions  and  purchases  made  pursuant  to  Section
6.06(a)(ii), during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $25,000,000; and
(3) on a pro forma basis and after giving effect to such distribution or payment
and all other  distributions or payments pursuant to this clause (i) and Section
6.06(a)  made after the last day of the most  recent  fiscal  quarter  for which
financial  statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.04(a) or (b), as
applicable,   as  if  such   payments   or   distributions   were  made  in  the
four-fiscal-quarter  period ending on such last day of such fiscal quarter,  the
Consolidated  Leverage  Ratio as of the end of such  four-fiscal-quarter  period
shall be less than 3.85 to 1.00,  or (ii) pay in cash any  amount in  respect of
such  Indebtedness  that may at the obligor's option be paid in kind or in other
securities and (C) Terex may at any time repay  Indebtedness  of any Borrower or
any Subsidiary solely in shares of its capital stock.

         SECTION 6.10.  Capital  Expenditures.  Permit the  aggregate  amount of
Consolidated Capital Expenditures made by Terex and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole,  in any  fiscal  year of Terex  to  exceed  $17,500,000.  The  amount  of
permitted Capital  Expenditures set forth in the immediately  preceding sentence
in  respect of any fiscal  year shall be  increased  by (a) the amount of unused
permitted  Capital  Expenditures for the immediately  preceding fiscal year less
(b) an amount  equal to unused  Capital  Expenditures  carried  forward  to such
preceding fiscal year.

         SECTION 6.11.  Consolidated  Leverage  Ratio.  Permit the  Consolidated
Leverage  Ratio on the last day of any fiscal quarter of Terex ending during any
period  set forth  below to be in  excess of the ratio set forth  below for such
period:


          Period                                                Ratio

Effective Date - March 31, 1999                              5.75 to 1.0
April 1, 1999 - March 31, 2000                               5.00 to 1.0
April 1, 2000 - March 31, 2001                               4.50 to 1.0
April 1, 2001 - March 31, 2002                               3.75 to 1.0
Thereafter                                                   3.50 to 1.0


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         SECTION  6.12.   Consolidated   Interest  Coverage  Ratio.  Permit  the
Consolidated  Interest Coverage Ratio for any period of four consecutive  fiscal
quarters of Terex  ending  during any period set forth below to be less than the
ratio set forth below for such period:


          Period                                                Ratio

Effective Date - March 31, 1999                              2.00 to 1.0
April 1, 1999 - March 31, 2000                               2.10 to 1.0
April 1, 2000 - March 31, 2001                               2.25 to 1.0
April 1, 2001 - March 31, 2002                               2.35 to 1.0
April 1, 2002 - March 31, 2004                               2.50 to 1.0
Thereafter                                                   2.75 to 1.0


         SECTION 6.13.  Consolidated  Fixed Charge  Coverage  Ratio.  Permit the
Consolidated  Fixed  Charge  Coverage  Ratio for any period of four  consecutive
fiscal  quarters  of Terex  ending  during any period set forth below to be less
than the ratio set forth below for such period:


          Period                                                Ratio

Effective Date - March 31, 2001                              1.15 to 1.0
April 1, 2001 - March 31, 2003                               1.20 to 1.0
April 1, 2003 - March 31, 2004                               1.25 to 1.0
Thereafter                                                   1.50 to 1.0


         SECTION 6.14.  Fiscal Year. Permit the fiscal year of Terex to end on a
day other than December 31.


                                   ARTICLE VII

                                Events of Default

         In case of the  happening of any of the  following  events  ("Events of
Default"):

                  (a) any  representation  or warranty made or deemed made in or
         in connection  with any Loan Document or the borrowings or issuances of
         Letters of Credit hereunder, or any representation, warranty, statement
         or  information  contained  in  any  report,   certificate,   financial
         statement or other instrument  furnished in connection with or pursuant
         to any Loan  Document,  shall prove to have been false or misleading in
         any material respect when so made, deemed made or furnished;

                  (b) default  shall be made in the payment of any  principal of
         any Loan or the reimbursement with respect to any L/C Disbursement when
         and as the same shall become due and  payable,  whether at the due date
         thereof or at a date fixed for  prepayment  thereof or by  acceleration
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                  (c) default  shall be made in the  payment of any  interest on
         any Loan or any Fee or L/C Disbursement or any other amount (other than
         an amount  referred to in (b) above) due under any Loan Document,  when
         and as the same shall  become due and payable,  and such default  shall
         continue unremedied for a period of three Business Days after notice;

                  (d) default shall be made in the due observance or performance
         by  any  Borrower  or any  Subsidiary  of any  covenant,  condition  or
         agreement contained in Section 5.01(a), 5.05 or 5.07 or in Article VI;

                  (e) default shall be made in the due observance or performance
         by  any  Borrower  or any  Subsidiary  of any  covenant,  condition  or
         agreement contained in any Loan Document (other than those specified in
         (b), (c) or (d) above) and such default shall continue unremedied for a
         period of 15 days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or
         any Lender to Terex;

                  (f) any Borrower or any  Subsidiary  shall (i) fail to pay any
         principal  or  interest,  regardless  of amount,  due in respect of any
         Indebtedness in a principal amount in excess of $5,000,000, when and as
         the same  shall  become  due and  payable,  or (ii) fail to  observe or
         perform any other term,  covenant,  condition or agreement contained in
         any   agreement  or   instrument   evidencing  or  governing  any  such
         Indebtedness  if the effect of any  failure  referred to in this clause
         (ii)  is to  cause,  or  to  permit  the  holder  or  holders  of  such
         Indebtedness  or a trustee on its or their  behalf (with or without the
         giving  of  notice,   the  lapse  of  time  or  both)  to  cause,  such
         Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity;

                  (g)  an  involuntary  proceeding  shall  be  commenced  or  an
         involuntary   petition   shall  be  filed  in  a  court  of   competent
         jurisdiction  seeking  (i)  relief in respect  of any  Borrower  or any
         Subsidiary,  or of a substantial  part of the property or assets of any
         Borrower or a Subsidiary,  under Title 11 of the United States Code, as
         now constituted or hereafter  amended,  or any other Federal,  state or
         foreign bankruptcy,  insolvency,  receivership or similar law, (ii) the
         appointment   of  a   receiver,   trustee,   custodian,   sequestrator,
         conservator  or similar  official for any Borrower or any Subsidiary or
         for a substantial part of the property or assets of any Borrower or any
         Subsidiary or (iii) the  winding-up or  liquidation  of any Borrower or
         any  Subsidiary;   and  such  proceeding  or  petition  shall  continue
         undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any
         of the foregoing shall be entered;

                  (h) any  Borrower  or any  Subsidiary  shall  (i)  voluntarily
         commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking relief under Title
         11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter  amended,
         or  any  other  Federal,  state  or  foreign  bankruptcy,   insolvency,
         receivership  or similar law,  (ii) consent to the  institution  of, or
         fail to contest in a timely and appropriate  manner,  any proceeding or
         the filing of any petition  described in (g) above,  (iii) apply for or
         consent  to  the  appointment  of  a  receiver,   trustee,   custodian,
         sequestrator,  conservator or similar  official for any Borrower or any
         Subsidiary or for a  substantial  part of the property or assets of any
         Borrower or any Subsidiary,  (iv) file an answer admitting the material
         allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding,  (v)
         make a general  assignment  for the benefit of  creditors,  (vi) become
         unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its


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         debts as they  become due or (vii)  take any action for the  purpose of
         effecting any of the foregoing;

                  (i) one or  more  judgments  for  the  payment  of  money  the
         aggregate  amount  which is not  covered by  insurance  is in excess of
         $5,000,000  shall be rendered  against any Borrower,  any Subsidiary or
         any combination  thereof and the same shall remain  undischarged  for a
         period of 45  consecutive  days  during  which  execution  shall not be
         effectively  stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment
         creditor  to levy upon  assets or  properties  of any  Borrower  or any
         Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment;

                  (j) an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, in the opinion of
         the Required  Lenders,  when taken  together  with all other such ERISA
         Events,  could  reasonably  be expected to result in  liability  of any
         Borrower  and its ERISA  Affiliates  in an aggregate  amount  exceeding
         $5,000,000;

                  (k) any  security  interest  purported  to be  created  by any
         Security  Document  shall  cease to be,  or shall  be  asserted  by any
         Borrower or any other Loan Party not to be, a valid,  perfected,  first
         priority (except as otherwise  expressly  provided in this Agreement or
         such Security Document) security interest in the securities,  assets or
         properties covered thereby,  except to the extent that any such loss of
         perfection or priority results from the failure of the Collateral Agent
         to maintain possession of certificates  representing securities pledged
         under the Pledge  Agreement  and except to the extent that such loss is
         covered by a lender's title  insurance  policy and the related  insurer
         promptly after such loss shall have  acknowledged  in writing that such
         loss is covered by such title insurance policy; or

                  (l) there shall have occurred a Change in Control;

then,  and in every such event (other than an event with respect to any Borrower
described in paragraph (g) or (h) above),  and at any time thereafter during the
continuance of such event,  the  Administrative  Agent,  with the consent of the
Required  Lenders,  may, and at the request of the Required  Lenders  shall,  by
notice to Terex,  take either or both of the following  actions,  at the same or
different  times:  (i) terminate  forthwith the Commitments and (ii) declare the
Loans then  outstanding  to be  forthwith  due and  payable in whole or in part,
whereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together
with  accrued  interest  thereon  and any  unpaid  accrued  Fees  and all  other
liabilities  of the  Borrowers  accrued  hereunder  and  under  any  other  Loan
Document, shall become forthwith due and payable,  without presentment,  demand,
protest  or any  other  notice of any kind,  all of which are  hereby  expressly
waived by the Borrowers, anything contained herein or in any other Loan Document
to the contrary  notwithstanding;  and in any event with respect to any Borrower
described in paragraph (g) or (h) above,  the  Commitments  shall  automatically
terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued
interest  thereon and any unpaid  accrued Fees and all other  liabilities of the
Borrowers   accrued   hereunder  and  under  any  other  Loan  Document,   shall
automatically become due and payable,  without presentment,  demand,  protest or
any other notice of any kind,  all of which are hereby  expressly  waived by the
Borrowers,  anything  contained  herein or in any  other  Loan  Document  to the
contrary notwithstanding.


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                                  ARTICLE VIII

                The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent

         In order to expedite the  transactions  contemplated by this Agreement,
CSFB is hereby appointed to act as Administrative  Agent and Collateral Agent on
behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing  Banks (for purposes of this Article VIII,
the  Administrative  Agent and the Collateral Agent are referred to collectively
as the "Agents").  Each of the Lenders,  the Issuing Banks, and each assignee of
any such Lender or Issuing Bank,  hereby  irrevocably  authorizes  the Agents to
take such  actions on behalf of such  Lender,  Issuing  Bank or assignee  and to
exercise  such powers as are  specifically  delegated to the Agents by the terms
and  provisions  hereof  and of the other  Loan  Documents,  together  with such
actions and powers as are  reasonably  incidental  thereto.  The  Administrative
Agent is hereby  expressly  authorized  by the Lenders  and the  Issuing  Banks,
without hereby limiting any implied  authority,  (a) to receive on behalf of the
Lenders and the Issuing  Banks all  payments of principal of and interest on the
Loans, all payments in respect of L/C Disbursements and all other amounts due to
the Lenders hereunder, and promptly to distribute to each Lender or each Issuing
Bank its proper share of each payment so received;  (b) to give notice on behalf
of each of the Lenders to the  Borrowers  of any Event of Default  specified  in
this Agreement of which the  Administrative  Agent has actual knowledge acquired
in connection  with its agency  hereunder;  and (c) to distribute to each Lender
copies of all notices, financial statements and other materials delivered by any
Borrower or any other Loan Party  pursuant to this  Agreement  or the other Loan
Documents  as  received  by  the  Administrative  Agent.  Without  limiting  the
generality  of the  foregoing,  the Agents are hereby  expressly  authorized  to
execute  any  and  all  documents  (including  releases)  with  respect  to  the
Collateral  and the rights of the  Secured  Parties  with  respect  thereto,  as
contemplated  by and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the
Security Documents.

         Neither  the Agents nor any of their  respective  directors,  officers,
employees  or agents  shall be liable as such for any action taken or omitted by
any of them except for its or his own gross negligence or wilful misconduct,  or
be  responsible  for any  statement,  warranty or  representation  herein or the
contents of any document  delivered in  connection  herewith,  or be required to
ascertain or to make any inquiry concerning the performance or observance by any
Borrower or any other Loan Party of any of the terms,  conditions,  covenants or
agreements  contained in any Loan Document.  The Agents shall not be responsible
to the Lenders for the due execution,  genuineness,  validity, enforceability or
effectiveness  of this  Agreement or any other Loan  Documents,  instruments  or
agreements.  The Agents  shall in all cases be fully  protected  in  acting,  or
refraining from acting,  in accordance with written  instructions  signed by the
Required Lenders and, except as otherwise  specifically  provided  herein,  such
instructions and any action or inaction pursuant thereto shall be binding on all
the Lenders.  Each Agent shall, in the absence of knowledge to the contrary,  be
entitled to rely on any  instrument or document  believed by it in good faith to
be genuine and  correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper  person or
persons.  Neither the Agents nor any of their  respective  directors,  officers,
employees or agents shall have any  responsibility  to any Borrower or any other
Loan Party on account of the failure of or delay in performance or breach by any
Lender or an Issuing Bank of any of its  obligations  hereunder or to any Lender
or an  Issuing  Bank on account of the  failure  of or delay in  performance  or
breach by any other  Lender or an Issuing Bank or any Borrower or any other Loan
Party of any of their respective  obligations  hereunder or under any other Loan
Document or in connection herewith or therewith.  Each of the Agents may execute
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entitled to rely upon the advice of legal counsel selected by it with respect to
all matters  arising  hereunder  and shall not be liable for any action taken or
suffered in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel.

         The Lenders  hereby  acknowledge  that neither Agent shall be under any
duty to take any  discretionary  action  permitted to be taken by it pursuant to
the  provisions of this Agree ment unless it shall be requested in writing to do
so by the Required Lenders.

         Subject to the  appointment  and  acceptance  of a  successor  Agent as
provided below, either Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and
Terex. Upon any such  resignation,  the Required Lenders shall have the right to
appoint  a  successor.  If no  successor  shall  have been so  appointed  by the
Required Lenders and shall have accepted such  appointment  within 30 days after
the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may,
on behalf of the Lenders,  appoint a successor  Agent which shall be a bank with
an office in New York,  New York,  having a combined  capital  and surplus of at
least  $500,000,000 or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of any
appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor bank, such successor shall succeed
to and become vested with all the rights,  powers,  privileges and duties of the
retiring  Agent and the retiring  Agent shall be discharged  from its duties and
obligations hereunder.  After the Agent's resignation hereunder,  the provisions
of this  Article  and Section  9.05 shall  continue in effect for its benefit in
respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as
Agent.

         With  respect  to the Loans  made by it  hereunder,  each  Agent in its
individual  capacity  and not as Agent  shall have the same rights and powers as
any other Lender and may  exercise the same as though it were not an Agent,  and
the Agents and their  Affiliates  may accept  deposits  from,  lend money to and
generally  engage in any kind of business with any Borrower or any Subsidiary or
other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent.

         Each  Lender  agrees (a) to  reimburse  the Agents,  on demand,  in the
amount of its pro rata share (based on its aggregate  Commitments  hereunder) of
any expenses  incurred  for the benefit of the Lenders by the Agents,  including
counsel fees and compensation of agents and employees paid for services rendered
on behalf of the Lenders,  that shall not have been  reimbursed  by any Borrower
and (b) to  indemnify  and hold  harmless  each Agent and any of its  directors,
officers,  employees or agents, on demand, in the amount of such pro rata share,
from and against any and all liabilities,  taxes, obligations,  losses, damages,
penalties,  actions,  judgments,  suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any
kind or nature  whatsoever  that may be  imposed  on,  incurred  by or  asserted
against it in its  capacity  as Agent or any of them in any way  relating  to or
arising out of this  Agreement or any other Loan Document or any action taken or
omitted by it or any of them under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, to
the extent the same shall not have been  reimbursed by any Borrower or any other
Loan  Party;  provided  that no  Lender  shall be liable to an Agent or any such
other  indemnified  person  for any  portion of such  liabilities,  obligations,
losses,  damages,  penalties,  actions,  judgments,  suits,  costs,  expenses or
disbursements  are determined by a court of competent  jurisdiction by final and
nonappealable  judgment to have  resulted  from the gross  negligence  or wilful
misconduct of such Agent or any of its directors, officers, employees or agents.
Each  Revolving  Credit Lender agrees to reimburse each of the Issuing Banks and
their  directors,  employees  and agents,  in each case,  to the same extent and
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         Each  Lender  acknowledges  that  it  has,  independently  and  without
reliance  upon the Agents or any other  Lender and based on such  documents  and
information  as it has  deemed  appropriate,  made its own credit  analysis  and
decision to enter into this  Agreement.  Each Lender also  acknowledges  that it
will, independently and without reliance upon the Agents or any other Lender and
based on such  documents  and  information  as it shall  from  time to time deem
appropriate,  continue to make its own  decisions in taking or not taking action
under or based upon this  Agreement  or any other  Loan  Document,  any  related
agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.


                                   ARTICLE IX

                                  Miscellaneous

         SECTION 9.01. Notices.  Notices and other  communications  provided for
herein shall be in writing and shall be  delivered by hand or overnight  courier
service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows:

                  (a) if to any  Borrower,  to it in care of  Terex  at 500 Post
         Road East, Westport,  CT 06880,  Attention of General Counsel (Telecopy
         No. (203) 227-1647);

                  (b) if to the  Administrative  Agent,  to Credit  Suisse First
         Boston, 11 Madison Avenue,  New York, New York 10010,  Attention of Joe
         Barone  (Telecopy No. (212)  325-8304,  and with respect to Alternative
         Currencies  in Marks,  Pounds,  Francs  or Lire,  Credit  Suisse  First
         Boston, One Cabot Square,  London E14 4QJ, England,  Attention of Steve
         Martin (Telecopy No. 44-171-888-8398),  and with respect to Alternative
         Currencies in Australian Dollars, Credit Suisse First Boston, Level 14,
         101 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia, Attention of Malcolm
         White (Telecopy No. 613-9653-3450); and

                  (c) if to a Lender,  to it at its address (or telecopy number)
         set forth on  Schedule  2.01(a)  or in the  Assignment  and  Acceptance
         pursuant to which such Lender shall have become a party hereto.

All notices and other  communications  given to any party  hereto in  accordance
with the provisions of this Agreement  shall be deemed to have been given on the
date of receipt if  delivered by hand or  overnight  courier  service or sent by
telecopy  or on the date five  Business  Days after  dispatch  by  certified  or
registered  mail if mailed,  in each case  delivered,  sent or mailed  (properly
addressed) to such party as provided in this Section 9.01 or in accordance  with
the latest  unrevoked  direction  from such party given in accordance  with this
Section 9.01.

         SECTION  9.02.  Survival  of  Agreement.  All  covenants,   agreements,
representations   and  warranties  made  by  any  Borrower  herein  and  in  the
certificates  or other  instruments  prepared or delivered in connection with or
pursuant to this  Agreement or any other Loan  Document  shall be  considered to
have been relied upon by the Lenders and the Issuing Banks and shall survive the
making by the Lenders of the Loans and the  issuance of Letters of Credit by the
Issuing  Banks,  regardless  of any  investigation  made by the  Lenders  or the
Issuing Banks or on their behalf, and shall continue in full force and effect as
long as the  principal of or any accrued  interest on any Loan or any Fee or any
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under this Agreement or any other Loan Document is outstanding and unpaid or any
Letter of Credit is  outstanding  and so long as the  Commitments  have not been
terminated.  The provisions of Sections 2.14,  2.16,  2.20 and 9.05 shall remain
operative and in full force and effect  regardless of the expiration of the term
of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the
repayment of any of the Loans, the expiration of the Commitments, the expiration
of any Letter of  Credit,  the  invalidity  or  unenforceability  of any term or
provision of this  Agreement or any other Loan  Document,  or any  investigation
made by or on behalf of the  Administrative  Agent,  the Collateral  Agent,  any
Lender or any Issuing Bank.

         SECTION 9.03.  Binding Effect.  This Agreement  shall become  effective
when it shall have been executed by the Borrowers and the  Administrative  Agent
and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which,
when taken  together,  bear the signatures of each of the other parties  hereto,
and  thereafter  shall be binding  upon and inure to the  benefit of the parties
hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns.

         SECTION 9.04.  Successors  and Assigns.  (a) Whenever in this Agreement
any of the parties  hereto is referred  to,  such  reference  shall be deemed to
include the permitted  successors and assigns of such party;  and all covenants,
promises and  agreements by or on behalf of the  Borrowers,  the  Administrative
Agent,  the Issuing  Banks or the Lenders that are  contained in this  Agreement
shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns.

         (b) Each Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of
its interests,  rights and obligations under this Agreement  (including all or a
portion  of its  Commitment  and the Loans at the time  owing to it);  provided,
however,  that  (i)  except  in the  case of an  assignment  to a  Lender  or an
Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund,  (x) Terex and the  Administrative
Agent (and, in the case of any assignment of a Revolving Credit Commitment,  the
Issuing Banks and the Swingline Lender) must give their prior written consent to
such assignment  (which consent shall not be unreasonably  withheld) and (y) the
amount of the  Commitment  or Loans,  as  applicable,  of the  assigning  Lender
subject to each such  assignment  (determined  as of the date the Assignment and
Acceptance  with respect to such  assignment is delivered to the  Administrative
Agent)  shall not be less than  $5,000,000  (or, if less,  the entire  remaining
amount of such Lender's Commitment or Loans, as applicable), (ii) the parties to
each such assignment  shall execute and deliver to the  Administrative  Agent an
Assignment and  Acceptance,  together with a processing and  recordation  fee of
$3,500,  (iii) the assignee,  if it shall not be a Lender,  shall deliver to the
Administrative  Agent an Administrative  Questionnaire and (iv) prior to the end
of the  Term  Loan  Availability  Period,  any  such  assignment  of  Tranche  A
Commitments or Revolving Credit  Commitments shall be made so that, after giving
effect thereto,  each of the assignee and the assignor, if such assignor retains
any  such  Commitments,  shall  have  the  same  percentage  of  the  Tranche  A
Commitments as such person has of the Revolving Credit Commitments. For purposes
of this Section 9.04(b),  "Approved Fund" shall mean, with respect to any Lender
that is a fund that  invests in bank loans,  any other fund that invests in bank
loans which is managed or advised by the same investment  advisor as such Lender
or by an affiliate of such  investment  advisor.  Upon  acceptance and recording
pursuant to paragraph  (e) of this Section  9.04,  from and after the  effective
date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance,  which effective date shall be
at least  five  Business  Days after the  execution  thereof,  (A) the  assignee
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by such Assignment and  Acceptance,  have the rights and obligations of a Lender
under this  Agreement  and (B) the assigning  Lender  thereunder  shall,  to the
extent of the interest  assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance,  be released
from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights
and  obligations  under this  Agreement,  such Lender  shall cease to be a party
hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.16,
2.20 and 9.05, as well as to any Fees accrued for its account and not yet paid).

         (c) By executing  and  delivering  an Assignment  and  Acceptance,  the
assigning  Lender  thereunder  and the  assignee  thereunder  shall be deemed to
confirm to and agree with each other and the other  parties  hereto as  follows:
(i) such assigning  Lender warrants that it is the legal and beneficial owner of
the interest being assigned thereby free and clear of any adverse claim and that
its Term Loan Commitments and Revolving Credit  Commitment,  and the outstanding
balances of its Term Loans and  Revolving  Loans,  in each case  without  giving
effect to assignments thereof which have not become effective,  are as set forth
in such Assignment and Acceptance,  (ii) except as set forth in (i) above,  such
assigning   Lender   makes  no   representation   or  warranty  and  assumes  no
responsibility  with respect to any  statements,  warranties or  representations
made in or in  connection  with  this  Agreement,  or the  execution,  legality,
validity, enforceability,  genuineness,  sufficiency or value of this Agreement,
any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document  furnished  pursuant
hereto,  or the  financial  condition of any Borrower or any  Subsidiary  or the
performance  or  observance  by any  Borrower  or any  Subsidiary  of any of its
obligations  under  this  Agreement,  any  other  Loan  Document  or  any  other
instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee represents
and warrants  that it is legally  authorized to enter into such  Assignment  and
Acceptance;  (iv) such  assignee  confirms  that it has  received a copy of this
Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements referred
to in  Section  3.05(a) or  delivered  pursuant  to Section  5.04 and such other
documents and  information  as it has deemed  appropriate to make its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into such  Assignment  and  Acceptance;  (v) such
assignee will independently and without reliance upon the Administrative  Agent,
the Collateral  Agent,  such  assigning  Lender or any other Lender and based on
such  documents  and  information  as it shall  deem  appropriate  at the  time,
continue to make its own credit  decisions in taking or not taking  action under
this Agreement;  (vi) such assignee  appoints and authorizes the  Administrative
Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to
exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative
Agent and the Collateral Agent, respectively, by the terms hereof, together with
such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees
that it will perform in accordance with their terms all the obligations which by
the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.

         (d) The  Administrative  Agent,  acting for this purpose as an agent of
the  Borrowers,  shall  maintain at one of its offices in The City of New York a
copy of each  Assignment and  Acceptance  delivered to it and a register for the
recordation  of the names and addresses of the Lenders,  and the  Commitment of,
and  principal  amount of the Loans owing to, each Lender  pursuant to the terms
hereof from time to time (the "Register").  The entries in the Register shall be
conclusive and the Borrowers,  the Administrative  Agent, the Issuing Banks, the
Collateral Agent and the Lenders may treat each person whose name is recorded in
the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes
of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be
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inspection by the  Borrowers,  any Issuing Bank,  the  Collateral  Agent and any
Lender,  at any  reasonable  time and from  time to time upon  reasonable  prior
notice.

         (e) Upon its  receipt of a duly  completed  Assignment  and  Acceptance
executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, an Administrative Questionnaire
completed in respect of the assignee  (unless the  assignee  shall  already be a
Lender  hereunder),  the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph
(b) above and, if required,  the written consent of Terex, the Swingline Lender,
the  Issuing  Banks  and  the  Administrative  Agent  to  such  assignment,  the
Administrative  Agent  shall (i) accept such  Assignment  and  Acceptance,  (ii)
record the information  contained  therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt
notice thereof to the Lenders,  the Issuing Banks and the Swingline  Lender.  No
assignment  shall be  effective  unless it has been  recorded in the Register as
provided in this paragraph (e).

         (f) Each Lender may without the consent of any Borrower,  the Swingline
Lender, the Issuing Banks or the Administrative Agent sell participations to one
or  more  banks  or  other  entities  in all or a  portion  of  its  rights  and
obligations  under this Agreement  (including all or a portion of its Commitment
and  the  Loans  owing  to  it);  provided,  however,  that  (i)  such  Lender's
obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged,  (ii) such Lender shall
remain solely  responsible  to the other parties  hereto for the  performance of
such  obligations,  (iii) the  participating  banks or other  entities  shall be
entitled to the benefit of the cost protection  provisions contained in Sections
2.14,  2.16 and 2.20 to the same  extent  as if they were  Lenders  and (iv) the
Borrowers,  the  Administrative  Agent,  the Issuing Banks and the Lenders shall
continue to deal solely and directly  with such Lender in  connection  with such
Lender's  rights and  obligations  under this  Agreement,  and such Lender shall
retain the sole right to enforce the  obligations  of the Borrowers  relating to
the Loans or L/C  Disbursements  and to approve any amendment,  modification  or
waiver of any provision of this Agreement (other than amendments,  modifications
or waivers  decreasing any fees payable  hereunder or the amount of principal of
or the rate at which  interest is payable on the Loans,  extending any scheduled
principal payment date or date fixed for the payment of interest on the Loans or
increasing or extending the Commitments).

         (g) Any Lender or participant may, in connection with any assignment or
participation or proposed  assignment or participation  pursuant to this Section
9.04,   disclose  to  the  assignee  or  participant  or  proposed  assignee  or
participant any information relating to any Borrower furnished to such Lender by
or on behalf of any Borrower;  provided  that,  prior to any such  disclosure of
information  designated by any Borrower as  confidential,  each such assignee or
participant  or proposed  assignee or  participant  shall  execute an  agreement
whereby  such  assignee  or  participant   shall  agree  (subject  to  customary
exceptions) to preserve the confidentiality of such confidential  information on
terms no less  restrictive  than those  applicable  to the  Lenders  pursuant to
Section 9.17.

         (h) Any Lender may at any time  assign all or any portion of its rights
under this Agreement to a Federal Reserve Bank to secure extensions of credit by
such Federal Reserve Bank to such Lender; provided that no such assignment shall
release a Lender from any of its  obligations  hereunder or substitute  any such
Bank  for  such  Lender  as a party  hereto.  In  order  to  facilitate  such an
assignment to a Federal Reserve Bank, each Borrower shall, at the request of the
assigning Lender,  duly execute and deliver to the assigning Lender a promissory
note or notes evidencing the Loans made to such Borrower by the assigning Lender
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         (i) No Borrower  shall  assign or delegate  any of its rights or duties
hereunder  without the prior written consent of the  Administrative  Agent, each
Issuing Bank and each Lender, and any attempted  assignment without such consent
shall be null and void.

         (j)  In the  event  that  Standard  &  Poor's  Ratings  Group,  Moody's
Investors  Service,  Inc., and Thompson's  BankWatch (or Insurance Watch Ratings
Service,  in the  case of  Lenders  that  are  insurance  companies  (or  Best's
Insurance  Reports,  if such insurance  company is not rated by Insurance  Watch
Ratings  Service))  shall,  after the date that any Lender  becomes a  Revolving
Credit  Lender,  downgrade the  long-term  certificate  deposit  ratings of such
Lender, and the resulting ratings shall be below BBB-, Baa3 and C (or BB, in the
case of a Lender that is an insurance company (or B, in the case of an insurance
company not rated by Insurance Watch Ratings  Service)),  then each Issuing Bank
shall have the right, but not the obligation, at its own expense, upon notice to
such Lender and the Administrative Agent, to replace (or to request Terex to use
its  reasonable  efforts to replace) such Lender with an assignee (in accordance
with and subject to the restrictions contained in paragraph (b) above), and such
Lender hereby agrees to transfer and assign without recourse (in accordance with
and  subject  to the  restrictions  contained  in  paragraph  (b) above) all its
interests,  rights and obligations in respect of its Revolving Credit Commitment
to such assignee;  provided, however, that (i) no such assignment shall conflict
with any law,  rule and  regulation or order of any  Governmental  Authority and
(ii) the applicable Issuing Bank or such assignee, as the case may be, shall pay
to such Lender in immediately available funds on the date of such assignment the
principal  of and  interest  accrued to the date of payment on the Loans made by
such Lender hereunder and all other amounts accrued for such Lender's account or
owed to it hereunder.

         SECTION 9.05. Expenses;  Indemnity. (a) Each Borrower agrees to pay all
reasonable  out-of-pocket  expenses  incurred by the  Administrative  Agent, the
Collateral  Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Swingline Lender in connection with
the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein and the preparation
and  administration  of  this  Agreement  and the  other  Loan  Documents  or in
connection  with any  amendments,  modifications  or waivers  of the  provisions
hereof  or  thereof  (whether  or  not  the   transactions   hereby  or  thereby
contemplated shall be consummated) or incurred by the Administrative  Agent, the
Collateral  Agent or any Lender in connection with the enforcement or protection
of its rights in connection  with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or
in  connection  with the Loans made or Letters of Credit  issued  hereunder,  as
applicable, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of Cravath,
Swaine & Moore,  counsel for the Administrative  Agent and the Collateral Agent,
and, in connection with any such  enforcement or protection,  the fees,  charges
and  disbursements  of any  other  counsel  for the  Administrative  Agent,  the
Collateral Agent or any Lender.

         (b) Each Borrower  agrees to indemnify the  Administrative  Agent,  the
Collateral  Agent,  each Lender and each Issuing Bank,  each Affiliate of any of
the  foregoing  persons  and  each  of  their  respective  directors,  officers,
employees  and agents (each such person being called an  "Indemnitee")  against,
and to hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims,  damages,
liabilities and related expenses, including reasonable counsel fees, charges and
disbursements, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in
any way connected  with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated
thereby, the performance by the parties thereto of their respective  obligations
thereunder or the consummation of the  Transactions  and the other  transactions
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Letters of Credit,  (iii) any claim,  litigation,  investigation  or  proceeding
relating  to any of the  foregoing,  whether  or not any  Indemnitee  is a party
thereto, or (iv) any actual or alleged presence, Release or threat of Release of
Hazardous Materials on any Properties, or any Environmental Claim related in any
way to any Borrower or the Subsidiaries; provided that such indemnity shall not,
as to any  Indemnitee,  be  available  to the extent that such  losses,  claims,
damages,  liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross
negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee.

         (c) The  provisions of this Section 9.05 shall remain  operative and in
full  force  and  effect  regardless  of the  expiration  of the  term  of  this
Agreement,  the  consummation  of  the  transactions  contemplated  hereby,  the
repayment of any of the Loans, the expiration of the Commitments, the expiration
of any Letter of  Credit,  the  invalidity  or  unenforceability  of any term or
provision of this  Agreement or any other Loan  Document,  or any  investigation
made by or on behalf of the  Administrative  Agent,  the Collateral  Agent,  any
Lender or an Issuing  Bank.  All  amounts due under this  Section  9.05 shall be
payable on written demand therefor.

         SECTION  9.06.  Right of  Setoff.  If an Event of  Default  shall  have
occurred and be  continuing,  each Lender is hereby  authorized  at any time and
from time to time,  except to the extent prohibited by law, to set off and apply
any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand,  provisional or final)
at any time held and other  indebtedness  at any time owing by such Lender to or
for  the  credit  or the  account  of any  Borrower  against  any of and all the
obligations of such Borrower now or hereafter  existing under this Agreement and
other Loan  Documents held by such Lender,  irrespective  of whether or not such
Lender  shall  have made any  demand  under  this  Agreement  or such other Loan
Document and although  such  obligations  may be  unmatured.  The rights of each
Lender  under this  Section  9.06 are in addition to other  rights and  remedies
(including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may have.

         SECTION  9.07.  Applicable  Law.  THIS  AGREEMENT  AND THE  OTHER  LOAN
DOCUMENTS  (OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS)  SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE  WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
EACH LETTER OF CREDIT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OR RULES DESIGNATED IN SUCH LETTER OF CREDIT,  OR IF NO SUCH LAWS
OR RULES ARE  DESIGNATED,  THE UNIFORM  CUSTOMS  AND  PRACTICE  FOR  DOCUMENTARY
CREDITS (1993 REVISION),  INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PUBLICATION NO. 500
(THE "UNIFORM  CUSTOMS") AND, AS TO MATTERS NOT GOVERNED BY THE UNIFORM CUSTOMS,
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

         SECTION  9.08.  Waivers;  Amendment.  (a) No  failure  or  delay of the
Administrative  Agent,  the Collateral  Agent,  any Lender or an Issuing Bank in
exercising  any power or right  hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall
operate as a waiver  thereof,  nor shall any single or partial  exercise  of any
such right or power,  or any abandonment or  discontinuance  of steps to enforce
such a right or power,  preclude  any other or further  exercise  thereof or the
exercise  of  any  other  right  or  power.  The  rights  and  remedies  of  the
Administrative  Agent,  the Collateral  Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders
hereunder  and  under  the  other  Loan  Documents  are  cumulative  and are not
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of any provision of this  Agreement or any other Loan Document or consent to any
departure by any Borrower or any other Loan Party  therefrom  shall in any event
be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) below, and then
such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific  instance and for
the purpose  for which  given.  No notice or demand on any  Borrower in any case
shall entitle such Borrower to any other or further  notice or demand in similar
or other circumstances.

         (b) Neither  this  Agreement  nor any  provision  hereof may be waived,
amended or modified  except  pursuant to an agreement or  agreements  in writing
entered into by the Borrowers and the Required Lenders; provided,  however, that
no such  agreement  shall (i)  decrease the  principal  amount of, or extend the
maturity of or any scheduled  principal  payment date or date for the payment of
any interest on any Loan or any date for  reimbursement of an L/C  Disbursement,
or waive or excuse any such payment or any part thereof, or decrease the rate of
interest on any Loan or L/C  Disbursement,  without the prior written consent of
each Lender affected  thereby,  (ii) change or extend the Commitment or decrease
or extend the date for payment of the  Facility  Fees of any Lender  without the
prior written  consent of such Lender,  (iii) amend or modify the  provisions of
Section 2.17 or 9.04(i),  the provisions of this Section,  the definition of the
term "Required Lenders", increase the total Commitments or release any Guarantor
or all or any  substantial  part of the  Collateral,  without the prior  written
consent of each Lender,  (iv) change the allocation between Tranche A Term Loans
and  Tranche B Term Loans of any  prepayment  pursuant  to Section  2.12 or 2.13
without  the prior  written  consent of (A)  Lenders  holding a majority  of the
aggregate  outstanding  principal  amount of the  Tranche  A Term  Loans and (B)
Lenders holding a majority of the aggregate  outstanding principal amount of the
Tranche B Term Loans or (v) amend  Section  2.13(j)  without  the prior  written
consent of the Lenders holding a majority of the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the  Tranche B Term Loans;  provided  further  that no such  agreement
shall  amend,   modify  or  otherwise   affect  the  rights  or  duties  of  the
Administrative  Agent, the Collateral  Agent, any Issuing Bank, any A/C Fronting
Lender or the  Swingline  Lender  hereunder  or under any  other  Loan  Document
without the prior written consent of the  Administrative  Agent,  the Collateral
Agent, such Issuing Bank, such A/C Fronting Lender or the Swingline Lender.

         SECTION 9.09. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein
to the  contrary,  if at any time the interest  rate  applicable  to any Loan or
participation in any L/C Disbursement, together with all fees, charges and other
amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan or  participation in such L/C
Disbursement under applicable law (collectively the "Charges"), shall exceed the
maximum lawful rate (the "Maximum Rate") which may be contracted  for,  charged,
taken,  received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan or participation in
accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest  payable in respect of such
Loan or  participation  hereunder,  together with all Charges payable in respect
thereof,  shall be limited to the Maximum  Rate and, to the extent  lawful,  the
interest  and  Charges  that would have been  payable in respect of such Loan or
participation  but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section
9.09 shall be cumulated  and the interest and Charges  payable to such Lender in
respect of other Loans or  participations or periods shall be increased (but not
above the Maximum Rate  therefor)  until such  cumulated  amount,  together with
interest  thereon at the Federal Funds  Effective Rate to the date of repayment,
shall have been received by such Lender.

         SECTION 9.10. Entire Agreement.  This Agreement, the Fee Letter and the
other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract between the parties relative
to the subject matter hereof.  Any other previous agreement among the parties


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with respect to the subject  matter hereof is  superseded by this  Agreement and
the other  Loan  Documents.  Nothing  in this  Agreement  or in the  other  Loan
Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to confer upon any party other than
the parties hereto and thereto any rights, remedies,  obligations or liabilities
under or by reason of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.

         SECTION 9.11. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO
THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL
BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY  LITIGATION  DIRECTLY  OR  INDIRECTLY  ARISING OUT OF,
UNDER OR IN CONNECTION  WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN  DOCUMENTS.
EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY
OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD
NOT, IN THE EVENT OF  LITIGATION,  SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING  WAIVER AND (B)
ACKNOWLEDGES  THAT IT AND THE OTHER  PARTIES  HERETO HAVE BEEN  INDUCED TO ENTER
INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, AS APPLICABLE, BY, AMONG OTHER
THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 9.11.

         SECTION  9.12.  Severability.  In the  event  any  one or  more  of the
provisions  contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document  should be
held invalid,  illegal or unenforceable in any respect,  the validity,  legality
and  enforceability  of the remaining  provisions  contained  herein and therein
shall not in any way be affected or impaired  thereby (it being  understood that
the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular  jurisdiction shall not
in  and  of  itself  affect  the  validity  of  such   provision  in  any  other
jurisdiction).  The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace
the invalid,  illegal or unenforce  able  provisions  with valid  provisions the
economic  effect of which  comes as close as  possible  to that of the  invalid,
illegal or unenforceable provisions.

         SECTION  9.13.   Counterparts.   This  Agreement  may  be  executed  in
counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different  counterparts),  each
of which shall constitute an original but all of which when taken together shall
constitute a single contract,  and shall become effective as provided in Section
9.03.  Delivery of an executed  signature  page to this  Agreement  by facsimile
transmission  shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart
of this Agreement.

         SECTION 9.14.  Headings.  Article and Section headings and the Table of
Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this
Agreement  and are not to  affect  the  construction  of,  or to be  taken  into
consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

         SECTION 9.15.  Jurisdiction;  Consent to Service of Process.  (a) Each
Borrower hereby  irrevocably  and  unconditionally  submits,  for itself and its
property,  to the  nonexclusive  jurisdiction  of any New  York  State  court or
Federal court of the United States of America  sitting in New York City, and any
appellate court from any thereof,  in any action or proceeding arising out of or
relating to this Agreement or the other Loan  Documents,  or for  recognition or
enforcement of any judgment,  and each of the parties hereto hereby  irrevocably
and  unconditionally  agrees  that all claims in  respect of any such  action or
proceeding  may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent
permitted by law, in such Federal court.  Each of the parties hereto agrees that
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enforced in other  jurisdictions  by suit on the judgment or in any other manner
provided  by law.  Nothing  in this  Agreement  shall  affect any right that the
Administrative  Agent, the Collateral  Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender may
otherwise  have to bring any action or proceeding  relating to this Agreement or
the other Loan Documents against any Borrower or its properties in the courts of
any jurisdiction.

         (b) Each Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the
fullest extent it may legally and  effectively do so, any objection which it may
now or hereafter  have to the laying of venue of any suit,  action or proceeding
arising out of or relating to this  Agreement or the other Loan Documents in any
New York State or Federal court.  Each of the parties hereto hereby  irrevocably
waives,  to the fullest extent  permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient
forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

         (c) Each party to this  Agreement  irrevocably  consents  to service of
process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01;  provided,  however,
that each Subsidiary  Borrower hereby appoints Stuart A. Gordon,  Esq., Robinson
Silverman  Pearce Aronsohn & Berman LLP, 1290 Avenue of the Americas,  New York,
NY 10104,  as its agent for service of process.  Nothing in this  Agreement will
affect the right of any party to this  Agreement  to serve  process in any other
manner permitted by law.

          SECTION  9.16.  Conversion of  Currencies.  (a) If, for the purpose of
obtaining  judgment  in any  court,  it is  necessary  to  convert  a sum  owing
hereunder in one currency into another  currency,  each party hereto agrees,  to
the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used
shall be that at which in  accordance  with  normal  banking  procedures  in the
relevant  jurisdiction  the first  currency  could be purchased  with such other
currency  on the  Business  Day  immediately  preceding  the day on which  final
judgment is given.

         (b) The  obligations  of each  party in  respect  of any sum due to any
other  party  hereto  or any  holder of the  obligations  owing  hereunder  (the
"Applicable  Creditor") shall,  notwithstanding  any judgment in a currency (the
"Judgment  Currency")  other than the currency in which such sum is stated to be
due hereunder (the "Agreement Currency"), be discharged only to the extent that,
on the  Business Day  following  receipt by the  Applicable  Creditor of any sum
adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency,  the Applicable  Creditor may in
accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant  jurisdiction purchase
the  Agreement  Currency  with  the  Judgment  Currency;  if the  amount  of the
Agreement  Currency  so  purchased  is less than the sum  originally  due to the
Applicable Creditor in the Agreement Currency,  such party agrees, as a separate
obligation and  notwithstanding  any such judgment,  to indemnify the Applicable
Creditor  against such loss. The  obligations  of the Loan Parties  contained in
this  Section  9.16 shall  survive the  termination  of this  Agreement  and the
payment of all other amounts owing hereunder.

         SECTION 9.17. Confidentiality. The Administrative Agent, the Collateral
Agent,  each  Issuing Bank and each of the Lenders  agrees to keep  confidential
(and to use its best efforts to cause its respective agents and  representatives
to keep confidential) the Information (as defined below) and all copies thereof,
extracts  therefrom and analyses or other materials  based thereon,  except that
the  Administrative  Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender
shall  be  permitted  to  disclose  Information  (a) to such  of its  respective
officers,


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directors,  employees,  agents,  affiliates and  representatives as need to know
such  Information,  (b) to the  extent  requested  by any  regulatory  authority
(provided  such  authority  shall be advised of the  confidential  nature of the
Information),  (c) to the  extent  otherwise  required  by  applicable  laws and
regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process,  (d) in connection with
any  suit,  action or  proceeding  relating  to the  enforcement  of its  rights
hereunder  or under the other  Loan  Documents,  (e) to any  direct or  indirect
contractual  counterparty in swap agreements or such contractual  counterparty's
professional  advisor  (so  long  as  such  contractual   counterparty  (or  its
affiliates) is not a competitor of Terex or any of its  Subsidiaries  and agrees
to be bound by the  provisions  of this Section  9.17) or (f) to the extent such
Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of
this Section 9.17 or (ii) becomes  available to the  Administrative  Agent,  any
Issuing Bank, any Lender or the Collateral Agent on a nonconfidential basis from
a  source  other  than  any   Borrower.   For  the  purposes  of  this  Section,
"Information"  shall  mean  all  financial  statements,  certificates,  reports,
agreements and  information  (including all analyses,  compilations  and studies
prepared by the Administrative  Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Issuing Bank or
any Lender based on any of the  foregoing)  that are received  from any Borrower
and related to any Borrower,  any  shareholder  of any Borrower or any employee,
customer or supplier of any Borrower,  other than any of the foregoing that were
available to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Issuing Bank or
any Lender on a  nonconfidential  basis prior to its  disclosure  thereto by any
Borrower,  and  which  are in the case of  Information  provided  after the date
hereof,  clearly  identified  at the  time  of  delivery  as  confidential.  The
provisions  of this Section 9.17 shall  remain  operative  and in full force and
effect regardless of the expiration and term of this Agreement.

         SECTION  9.18.  European  Monetary  Union.  If,  as  a  result  of  the
implementation  of European monetary union, (a) any currency ceases to be lawful
currency of the nation  issuing  the same and is  replaced by a European  common
currency, then any amount payable hereunder by any party hereto in such currency
shall  instead be  payable in the  European  common  currency  and the amount so
payable shall be determined by  translating  the amount payable in such currency
to such European common currency at the exchange rate recognized by the European
Central Bank for the purpose of implementing European monetary union, or (b) any
currency and a European  common  currency are at the same time recognized by the
central  bank or  comparable  authority of the nation  issuing such  currency as
lawful  currency  of such  nation,  then (i) any Loan made at such time shall be
made in such European  common  currency and (ii) any other amount payable by any
party  hereto in such  currency  shall be  payable in such  currency  or in such
European common  currency (in an amount  determined as set forth in clause (a)),
at the election of the obligor.  Prior to the  occurrence of the event or events
described in clause (a) or (b) of the preceding  sentence,  each amount  payable
hereunder in any  currency  will  continue to be payable only in that  currency.
Each Borrower agrees, at the request of the Required Lenders,  at the time of or
at any time following the  implementation  of European  monetary union, to enter
into an agreement amending this Agreement in such manner as the Required Lenders
shall  reasonably  request in order to avoid any unfair  burden or  disadvantage
resulting  from the  implementation  of such  monetary  union  and to place  the
parties  hereto in the position they would have been in had such monetary  union
not been  implemented,  the intent  being that  neither  party will be adversely
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that reasonable  provisions may be adopted to govern the borrowing,  maintenance
and repayment of Loans  denominated  in any  Alternative  Currency or a European
common currency after the occurrence of the event or events  described in clause
(a) or (b) of the preceding sentence.

          SECTION 9.19. German Borrower. Terex may designate the German Borrower
to be a Subsidiary Borrower under this Agreement on or after the consummation of
the  Acquisition  by  delivering a written  notice to the  Administrative  Agent
together  with (i) an accession  agreement  satisfactory  to the  Administrative
Agent and duly  executed  by Terex and the German  Borrower,  (ii) an opinion of
counsel reasonably  satisfactory to the Administrative  Agent and (iii) a pledge
by Terex of 65% of the capital  stock of the German  Borrower for the benefit of
the Secured  Parties.  Upon the  execution  of such  accession  agreement by the
Administrative  Agent,  the German  Borrower  shall become a Borrower under this
Agreement with all of the rights and obligations of a Borrower.


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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
duly  executed by their  respective  authorized  officers as of the day and year
first above written.


                                        TEREX CORPORATION,

                                           by
                                              Eric I. Cohen
                                              Name:     Eric I. Cohen
                                              Title:    Senior Vice President


                                        TEREX EQUIPMENT LIMITED,

                                           by
                                              Eric I. Cohen
                                              Name:     Eric I. Cohen
                                              Title:    Director


                                        P.P.M. S.A.,

                                          by
                                             Fil Filipov
                                             Name:     Fil Filipov
                                             Title:    President & Director


                                        UNIT RIG (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD.,

                                          by
                                             Gary Nicholas
                                             Name:     Gary Nicholas
                                             Title:    Secretary


                                        P.P.M. S.p.A,

                                          by
                                             Fil Filipov
                                             Name:     Fil Filipov
                                             Title:    President



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                                  CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON,
                                  individually and as Administrative Agent,
                                  Collateral Agent and Swingline Lender,

                                       by
                                          Kristin Lepri
                                          Name:     Kristin Lepri
                                          Title:    Associate

                                       by
                                          Heather Suggit
                                          Name:     Heather Suggitt
                                          Title:    Vice President


                                  ABN AMRO BANK N.V.,

                                       by
                                          Andrew Dry
                                          Name:     Andrew Dry
                                          Title:    Group Vice President

                                       by
                                          Michael A. Kowalczuk
                                          Name:      Michael A. Kowalczuk
                                          Title:     Corporate Banking Officer


                                   BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI TRUST
                                   COMPANY,

                                       by
                                          Paul P. Malecki
                                          Name:     Paul P. Malecki
                                          Title:    Vice President


                                   BANKBOSTON N.A., as Revolver and Term
                                   A Lender,

                                       by
                                          Brent E. Shay
                                          Name:     Brent E. Shay
                                          Title:    Managing Director



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                                  BANKBOSTON, N.A.,

                                      by
                                         Renee A. Ross
                                         Name:     Renee A. Ross
                                         Title:    Managing Director


                                  CIBC INC.,

                                      by
                                         William J. Koslo, Jr.
                                         Name:     William J. Koslo, Jr.
                                         Title:    Executive Director


                                  CREDIT LYONNAIS, NEW YORK BRANCH,

                                      by
                                         Vladimir Labun
                                         Name:     Vladimir Labun
                                         Title:    First Vice President-Manager


                                  DRESDNER BANK AG, NEW YORK AND
                                  GRAND CAYMAN BRANCHES,

                                      by
                                         Beverly G. Cason
                                         Name:     Beverly G. Cason
                                         Title:    Vice President

                                      by
                                         Colleen A. Madden
                                         Name:     Colleen A. Madden
                                         Title:    Vice President


                                  FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK,

                                      by
                                         Hank Biedrzycki
                                         Name:     Hank Biedrzycki
                                         Title:    Vice President-Director




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                                   GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION,

                                      by
                                         Janet K. Williams
                                         Name:     Janet K. Williams
                                         Title:    Duly Authorized Signatory


                                   MARINE MIDLAND BANK,

                                      by
                                         Randolph H. Ross
                                         Name:     Randolph H. Ross
                                         Title:    Authorized Signatory


                                  NATIONAL CITY BANK,

                                      by
                                         Joseph D. Robison
                                         Name:     Joseph D. Robison
                                         Title:    Vice President


                                  KZH HOLDING CORPORATION III,

                                      by
                                         Andrew J. Taylor
                                         Name:     Andrew J. Taylor
                                         Title:    Authorized Agent


                                  SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA BANKEN
                                  AB (publ), NEW YORK BRANCH,

                                      by
                                         Sverker Johansson
                                         Name:     Sverker Johansson
                                         Title:    Vice President

                                      by
                                         Philip Montemurro
                                         Name:     Philip Montemurro
                                         Title:    Vice President



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                                  KZH-CRESCENT-2 CORPORATION,

                                     by
                                        Andrew J. Taylor
                                        Name:     Andrew J. Taylor
                                        Title:    Authorized Agent


                                  TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INC.,

                                    by
                                        David G. Parker
                                        Name:     David G. Parker
                                        Title:    Vice President