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Dealers

Contractors: Nominate your essential dealer for our Dealer of the Year award

Now, more than ever, you need a great dealer partner who understands your business and has your back. If your dealer has not only met but exceeded your expectations, we invite you to nominate it for the 2020 Big Iron Dealer of the Year award. To nominate a dealer, just fill out this quick form. The […]

June 2, 2020

Dealers

Company Wrench adds Screen Machine to Florida location

Company Wrench has added Screen Machine Industries to its lineup at the company’s Lakeland, Florida, location. The company will offer Screen Machine’s complete line of portable jaw, impact and cone crushers, screening plants, trammels and conveyors. “There is enormous demand for dependable crushing equipment in the Sunshine State,” says Cam Gabbard, Company Wrench president. The […]

June 2, 2020

Construction Equipment

Takeuchi promotes U.S. president Eubanks to director of global sales

Takeuchi Manufacturing has named Clay Eubanks as its director of global sales from his current position as president of Takeuchi US. Eubanks is relocating to Japan and will be responsible for overseeing global machine and parts sales. In addition, Eubanks has been named vice chairman of Takeuchi US’s board. Taking his place at Takeuchi US […]

June 1, 2020

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Video: Deere’s new 333G CTL With SmartGrade, Dozer Mode; Bell’s New TC7A, TC11A Tracked Carriers; Snorkel Intros Tallest Rough-Terrain Scissor Lift; Hamm Intros Next-Gen HP180i pneumatic tire compactor

Hamm intros next-generation HP 180i pneumatic tire compactor Hamm says it has tailored its new HP 180i pneumatic tire compactor specifically for the North American market. The new roller, unveiled at ConExpo, is part of the next generation of compactors to replace the GRW Series, which has been the company’s standard bearer for 50 years. […]

June 1, 2020

Pickups

Held up by parts shortage, GM plans to ramp up pickup production

UPDATE: A new article from The Drive says that the delay to GM’s plans to ramp up truck production were only temporary. This week the automaker plans to place three of its pickup production facilities back into three shifts of work in order to meet increased demand from dealers, The Drive reports. GM’s plans to double […]

May 29, 2020

Dealers

Doosan recognizes 2019 top performing dealers

Doosan Infracore North America has named its top 10 top performing dealers for 2019. These dealers have “demonstrated high quality customer service by providing exceptional sales, parts and service to their customers,” Doosan says. Annual dealer performance reviews are also a factor in the dealer’s score. The top 2019 Doosan dealers include (headquarters in parentheses): […]

May 29, 2020

Dealers

Ritchie Bros. CEO Fandozzi: Coronavirus has highlighted the blurred lines between online/live auctions

Amid the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing, the live and online equipment auction world are melding together. More from Fandozzi on Equipment World.

May 28, 2020

Safety

Two workers killed after trench collapse in Mississippi

Two workers died after a trench collapse May 19 in Starkville, Mississippi. Zachary Wayne Osbourn, 36, and William Kizzire, 19, both from Alabama, were on a residential sewer installation job for Southern Civil Contracting of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, when the 10- to 12-foot-deep trench they were in collapsed, according to news reports. Osbourn died at the […]

May 28, 2020

Construction Equipment

Hamm intros next-generation HP 180i pneumatic tire compactor

This new pneumatic roller is part of the next generation of compactors to replace the Hamm GRW Series. More details here on Equipment World.

May 27, 2020

Vocational

Mitsubishi Fuso will stop selling new trucks in North America

Amid the pandemic-fueled economic downturn, Japanese truck and bus maker Mitsubishi Fuso has announced that it will stop selling new trucks in North America. In a press release the company did not clarify what the primary cause behind the decision was—be it the coronavirus or other impacts to its business—saying only that it will “shift […]

May 27, 2020

Dealers

Deere 2Q construction equipment sales down 25%; 2020 sales forecast down 30-40%

Because its second quarter ended on May 3rd, Deere & Company is one of the first equipment companies to report on a quarter where coronavirus impacts were felt during most of the reporting period. Deere’s worldwide net sales and revenues decreased 18 percent, to $9.253 billion, for the second quarter and decreased 13 percent, to […]

May 26, 2020

Dealers

How equipment dealers can grow profits with a field service technology system

There’s a legend of an African farmer who became so obsessed with finding a diamond mine that he left his property and spent the rest of his days in failed pursuit of his dream, unaware that his own farm was one of the most diamond-rich properties on the whole continent. Today, construction equipment dealers know […]

May 26, 2020