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Dealers

Caterpillar, Holt Cat investment arms award funding to 3 industrial startups at SXSW

Holt Ventures, the investment arm of dealer Holt Caterpillar, along with Caterpillar Ventures, Brick & Mortar Ventures and Cottonwood Technology Fund, selected three winners in the Industrial Technology Pitch Competition held at the South by Southwest Startup Village March 14 in Austin, Texas. The group of investment firms held the competition to find award startups […]

March 15, 2017

Dealers

IronDirect launches truck remanufacturing service with Vehicle Reman partnership

IronDirect, the online seller primarily known as a sales platform for Chinese-made heavy equipment, has partnered with Tyler, Texas-based Vehicle Reman, which you can read more about here, to create IronDirect Reman Trucks. The service, announced at the 2017 ConExpo in Las Vegas, will offer a quick turnaround time (as fast as 48 hours) on pickups […]

March 14, 2017

Dealers

Rental Show 2017 sees highest attendance in more than a decade

The 2017 Rental Show, held  in Orlando, had its highest total attendance since 2006 at 11,648. The show also and had nearly 6,300 rental business attendees, also the highest number since 2006, according to the American Rental Association (ARA), which puts on the show. Extending to 16 years, the number of rental business represented by attendees, at […]

March 14, 2017

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Generac light towers; Ox Bodies lightweight TrailMaker; Terex Demag AC 500-8 updates; Ditch Witch ST37X; Takeuchi TB216H hybrid excavator; Rental Show equipment photos

Generac launches 3 new light towers: MLT6SMD, MLT4060MVD and PLT240 LINKTower Generac Mobile Products recently launched three new light towers, the MLT6SMD, MLT4060MVD and PLT240 LINKTower, at The Rental Show in Orlando. The machines come fitted with four 240 Watt LED lights that offer a five-year limited warranty. Both the MLT6SMD and MLT4060MVD feature the […]

March 14, 2017

Dealers

Business Roundup: Southeastern joins National IPA; Cemen Tech adds G.W. Van Keppel; Morbark adds Correlli; Compact Power opens standalone rental center; contractor JBR Inc. profile

Southeastern Equipment now offers sales through National IPA cooperative purchasing Southeastern Equipment reports it has joined the National IPA governmental purchasing cooperative, which allows discounts for government, nonprofit or educational entities covering Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. Through the National IPA, “contracts are solicited, evaluated and awarded by a government entity that acts as the lead agency. Contracts […]

March 14, 2017

Dealers

Manitowoc marks first orders for National Crane NTC55 at ConExpo

Manitowoc Cranes marked the release and first five retail orders for the National Crane NTC55 truck crane during ConExpo 2017 in Las Vegas. In attendance for the announcement was dealer Stephenson Equipment, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which helped Manitowoc in designing the crane. The company gave the dealer a commemorative plaque during the ceremony. RELATED […]

March 13, 2017

Dealers

John Deere dealers to offer Kespry’s automated construction drone service in exclusive deal

Against the backdrop of ConExpo 2017, a show which highlighted drone technology with a drone aviary in its Tech Experience area, John Deere and Kespry announced an exclusive global strategic alliance through which Deere Construction & Forestry dealers will provide the Kespry Aerial Intelligence System to their customers on jobsites around the world, beginning in North […]

March 10, 2017

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International Truck names Mid-Atlantic Truck Centre’s Feldman as Walk-Around champ

International Truck has named Robert Feldman from Mid-Atlantic Truck Centre, Linden, New Jersey, as the 2017 HX Series Walk-Around Competition champion. The announcement was made during ConExpo in Las Vegas. Feldman, who was the finalist for the Northeast region, was one of six regional finalists who received an all-expense paid trip to the trade show. […]

March 10, 2017

Dealers

Subsite presents Top Salesman Awards to Ditch Witch of Georgia, Ditch Witch of the Rockies reps

Subsite Electronics presented its 2017 Top Salesman Awards to Brent Goodman of Ditch Witch of Georgia (Top HDD Guidance System Salesman) and Troy Kynaston of Ditch Witch of the Rockies (Top Utility Locator Sales) during the recent annual Ditch Witch Sales Conference. “These awards recognize the outstanding efforts of Brent and Troy,” says John Lamerton, […]

March 9, 2017

Dealers

Federal Signal’s Environmental Solutions Group reorganizes operations

Federal Signal’s Environmental Solutions Group (ESG) is reorganizing its operations, including whole-goods, parts and service offerings and equipment rentals across government and industrial markets. ESG provides street sweepers, industrial vacuum trucks, high-performance waterblasting equipment, sewer cleaners and vacuum excavators for commercial, municipal and industrial customers. “With the successful completion of the Joe Johnson Equipment (JJE) […]

March 8, 2017

Dealers

Worldwide equipment sales forecast up 7% for 2017; North America to grow by 6%

Off-Highway Research is forecasting construction equipment sales worldwide will grow 7 percent in 2017. The firm expects total machine unit sales will reach 695,142 this year, compared to 650,133 in 2016. “Sales of construction equipment last year were affected by weak economic growth worldwide and low global prices for many commodities,” says David Phillips, managing […]

March 7, 2017

Dealers

Southeastern Equipment focuses on service continuity, employee training to reach market-leading goal

Ohio-based Southeastern Equipment celebrates 60 years in business in 2017 and is setting a strong goal of becoming the top Case dealer in the U.S. this year. According to Heath Watton, vice president at Southeastern, the company is consistently a top five dealer for the manufacturer, but it is setting its sights higher. “We have […]

March 7, 2017