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Dealers

Quick Data 12/13: Articulated trucks

November 30, 2013

Roadbuilding

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers CEO Peter Blake to step down in May 2014

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers has announced that CEO Peter Blake will step down from his position in during the company’s next Annual General Meeting in May 2014. Blake, who has served as CEO for the industrial auctioneer for nine of his 22 years with Ritchie Bros., will continue with his leadership responsibilities during the interim period. […]

October 9, 2013

Business

Ritchie Bros. CEO Peter Blake to step down next year

After 22 years with Ritchie Bros. and most recently nine as its CEO, Peter Blake has announced that he will step down from his position in May 2014 during the company’s next annual meeting. In the meantime, Blake will remain CEO while the company’s Board of Directors looks for his replacement. Internal and external candidates […]

October 9, 2013

Construction Equipment

Quick Data 9/13: Skid steers

September 1, 2013

Construction Equipment

Tilt-shift footage from Ritchie Bros. auction makes heavy equipment look like toys

Our friends over at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers did a pretty cool thing during one of their recent auctions. Rather than grabbing normal footage of the huge event, they commissioned a “tilt-shift” filming. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, tilt-shift photography is basically a technique of filming that plays with the focus of the camera a […]

July 30, 2013

Construction Equipment

Quick Data 7/13: Trenchers

July 1, 2013

Construction Equipment

IronPlanet launches TruckPlanet, an online marketplace for commercial trucks

Having sold $500 million worth of used trucks to date, IronPlanet is no stranger to serving that market. And given that success, the company has launched TruckPlanet, a separate website dedicated solely to the buying and selling of used commercial trucks.  The site will hold its first auction Tuesday, May 7 when it sells off 300 […]

May 1, 2013

Construction Equipment

Quick Data 5/13: Compact excavators

Editor’s Note: To download a PDF of this data, click here.

May 1, 2013

Construction Equipment

Ritchie Bros. calls first China auction a “big success”

More than 1,000 people attended Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers first unreserved public auction in China with more than 500 registering to bid. Bidders represented more than 30 countries. Ritchie Bros. says the crowd was mainly made up of local equipment end users from Beijing and the surrounding Hebei province. However, overseas bidders—those from the U.S., United […]

April 24, 2013

Business

Recession-weary Ala. construction firm auctions $26 million in earthmoving equipment

Tomorrow, one of the largest auctions of construction equipment in the state of Alabama’s history will be held in Tuscaloosa, where struggling Racon Inc. will sell off $26 million worth of machines. In all, 675 pieces of equipment will be auctioned off including 300 to 350 earthmoving machines and 45 pickup trucks. You can view […]

March 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Quick Data March 2013: Dozers

A snapshot of new and used sales trends from Randall-Reilly’s Equipment Data Associates and TopBid auction price service.

March 4, 2013

Business

Ritchie Bros. sees increased auction earnings, big boosts online in 2012

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers announced today that it brought in net earnings of $82.6 million in 2012, a 12 percent increase from adjusted earnings in 2011. The company notes that without its purchase of AssetNation, which it used to build its new EquipmentOne equipment sales website, net earnings would have been an improvement of 17 percent. […]

February 26, 2013