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Dealers

Operators, dealers get first taste of intelligent Machine Control at Komatsu Demo Days

Komatsu had its traditional earthmoving machines at its Demo Day which included excavators, dozers, articulated dump trucks, wheel loaders and motor graders.

October 29, 2018

Dealers

Cat dealer Cashman Equipment installing camera-based system that monitors an operator’s fatigue

Las Vegas-based Caterpillar dealer Cashman Equipment has now made available a fatigue monitoring system for heavy equipment operators. Initially rolled out on Caterpillar mining trucks in 2013, the Seeing Machines Driver Safety System is currently installed on 4,000 mining trucks worldwide, and working on 20 mine sites in the United States. Designed to work with mining […]

December 10, 2014

Dealers

Ruffridge-Johnson now a Bomag distributor, Holt Cat expands mining business, United Rentals expands operations and more in this week’s Dealer News Roundup

Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. We post a new edition each week with news on hires, promotions, new locations and expansions. Check back for a new edition every Friday! Ruffridge-Johnson now Bomag road building distributor Ruffridge-Johnson Equipment Company is […]

December 19, 2013

Business

Sany taps Dallas-Forth Worth’s Landmark Equipment as first Texas excavator dealer

Sany has named its first Texas excavator dealer. Landmark Equipment has been selected as the Sany America excavator dealer for the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area. Landmark was founded in 1989 by Mike Lyle and has four Dallas-Fort Worth area locations: Irving, Fort Worth, McKinney and Waxahachie. Landmark sells, rents and services heavy equipment, including excavators, backhoes, […]

March 14, 2013

Business

Contractors, equipment dealers optimistic about construction activity, rental fleet growth

The latest round of the Wells Fargo Equipment Finance Construction Optimism Quotient registered at a 106, indicating that contractors and equipment distributors are optimistic that local non-residential construction activity will improve in 2013. The Optimism Quotient is a piece of the Wells Fargo 2013 Construction Industry forecast used to gauge contractors and equipment distributors’ feeling […]

March 11, 2013

Business

Sany America names Hawkins-Graves as first-Virginia based Sany excavator dealer

Sany America has named Hawkins-Graves as a Sany excavator dealer in Lynchburg, Virginia, making Hawkins-Graves the first Virginia-based excavator dealer for Sany America. Hawkins-Graves, founded in 1966, specializes in the sale, rental and service of new and used construction equipment. The dealership’s territory includes central and western Virginia. For more information, visit sanyamerica.com or hawkinsgraves.com.

March 7, 2013

Business

Coast Crane expands Sany territory in United States, Canada

Coast Crane Company, the Sany America crane dealer for California, has expanded its territory across the western United States and Canada. For Sany crawler cranes, the Coast Crane territory now includes Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington; the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Yukon Territory and the United States island territory of Guam. For Sany […]

March 6, 2013

Business

Caterpillar dealer sales fall 4% in fiscal Q1

Caterpillar recently reported that it saw worldwide dealer sales fall 4 percent in the three months ending January 31. According to a Securites and Exchange Report reviewed by the Chicago Tribune, the company saw sales decline 11 percent in North America and 12 percent in the Asia/Pacific Region. Sales in Latin America were up 3 […]

February 25, 2013

Construction Equipment

Sany America names Tar Heel Machinery as North Carolina excavator dealer

Sany America has named Tar Heel Machinery as its excavator dealer for North Carolina. Tar Heel Machinery, founded in 2005 by Penn McMichael and Scott Woody, has locations in Charlotte, Raleigh and Reidsville, North Carolina. The company sells, rents and services heavy equipment. For more information, visit sanyamerica.com or tarheelmachinery.com.

February 21, 2013

Business

Doosan Portable Power names Pacific Power Products mobile generator dealer

Doosan Portable Power has named Pacific Power Products an authorized dealer for mobile generators. The company, headquartered in Ridgefield, Washington, will distribute Doosan Portable Power products to customers throughout Washington and Oregon from branches in Kent and Spokane, Washington, and Coburg, Redmond and Medford, Oregon. For more information, visit doosanportablepower.com or pacificdda.com.

January 28, 2013

Business

Mack Trucks names Tri-State Truck Center 2012 Distributor of the Year

Mack Trucks has named Tri-State Truck Center of Memphis, Tennessee, as its 2012 North American Distributor of the Year. The annual award recognizes the top-performing distributors within Mack’s North American dealer network based on sales, facilities, service, general management, customer satisfaction, parts, personnel and community service. Tri-State Truck Center, owned by Jim and Rod Maddox, […]

January 28, 2013

Business

Terex adds Tractor Services and Titan machinery as distributors

Terex has added two distributors to its North American network, Tractor Service and Titan Machinery. Terex appointed Tractor Service as a full line compact equipment distributor in New Mexico. As a distributor, Tractor Service will offer parts, service, warranty support and financing options for Terex products. To see the Terex products Tractor Service has to […]

November 5, 2012