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Dealers

Hawthorne Cat names Ramamoorthy director of product support operations

San Diego, California-based dealer Hawthorne Cat has named Chandra Ramamoorthy as director of product support operations, with responsibility over its corporate product support, sales, service and parts. Ramamoorthy has an extensive background with Caterpillar, having most recently served as commercial manager for productivity solutions in the Cat Jobsite Solutions Group. From 2011-2015 he worked as […]

November 24, 2016

Dealers

CBS Rental & Supply to begin construction on Corpus Christi location

CBS Rental & Supply, based in Houston, Texas, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony Dec. 8 for its new location in Corpus Christi, Texas. The new 30,000-square-foot facility will be the largest location of any of the company’s 12 branches throughout Texas and Florida. The new location follows the company’s expansion in Florida with three branches […]

November 23, 2016

Dealers

IronPlanet, TruckPlanet launch Fleet Services for bulk auction buying

Online equipment auctioneer IronPlanet and its TruckPlanet marketplace have launched a new service aimed at buyers looking to purchase trucks in bulk during on-site or online auctions. The company says the program, Fleet Services, will work in conjunction with IronPlanet Truck Locator and have access to more than $200 million in trucks, including Class 8. “With […]

November 22, 2016

Dealers

AED asks for dealer input on tax survey to help develop policy

The Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) is asking for equipment dealers who are members of the group to participate in its tax survey to determine how they are affected by the current tax code and how tax reform may impact the industry. “The data is important because AED is engaging with the U.S. Treasury Department to […]

November 22, 2016

Dealers

Product Roundup: New machines from Caterpillar, ASV, Hyundai and Komatsu, plus a Cat VR demonstrator preview

Cat intros 992K loader, 854K wheel dozer with improved design, hydraulics, 21% fuel boost Caterpillar has launched the new 992K wheel loader alongside its sister machine the 854K wheel dozer, improving both machines with design, efficiency, safety, and uptime enhancements. Powered by an 801-horsepower Cat C32 ACERT engine, the new 992K delivers three-pass loading of […]

November 21, 2016

Dealers

Business Roundup: Home starts up 25% in October, H&E opens 77th branch, United Rental adds 7 sites, Noble Iron sells off Houston operations

Home starts jump 25% in October with surge in multi-family building Following two consecutive months of decreases, construction starts on homes in the U.S. jumped 25 percent in October largely due to a huge increase in multi-family starts. Home starts are at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.323 million, an increase of 23 percent over […]

November 21, 2016

Dealers

RDO Equipment charity luncheon raises $69,343 for women and children emergency shelter

John Deere dealer RDO Equipment and R.D. Offutt Company, the largest potato grower in North America, raised $69,343 for the YWCA Cass Clay Emergency Shelter during the recent 17th annual RDO Caters Taters for Charity event. All of the funds raised go to the shelter. The YWCA Cass Clay Emergency Shelter is the largest facility […]

November 21, 2016

Dealers

INFOGRAPHIC: Compact excavator sales and buyer trends

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

November 18, 2016

Dealers

John Deere dealer Brooks Tractor named authorized Topcon OEM dealer

Brooks Tractor, a John Deere dealer based in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is now an authorized Topcon OEM dealer via its Brooks Positioning Systems division. “We are excited to announce that we added Topcon to our portfolio of positioning products,” says Mary Kay Brooks, general manager, Brooks Tractor. “When John Deere announced SmartGrade, their first in […]

November 18, 2016

Dealers

Led by loader segment, global construction equipment market forecast to hit $289B by 2022

Market research and consulting firm Allied Market Research forecasts the global construction equipment market will create $288.8 billion by 2022, and will have a compound annual growth rate of 9.2 percent from 2016 to 2022. The findings are from the company’s recent “World Construction Equipment Market —Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014-2022” report. Allied has made a […]

November 17, 2016

Dealers

Noble Iron sells off its equipment rental and sales operations in Houston

Noble Iron is selling its equipment sales and rental business, Noble Rents, in Houston, Texas, to an undisclosed “arm’s length third party” for $6.24 million. The company says it will continue to operate its equipment rental and sales operations in other regions, including Southern California, in addition to its Texada Software platform. The sale, according […]

November 17, 2016

Dealers

United Rentals adds 7 sites to specialty branch dealer network in North America

United Rentals has expanded its specialty branch dealer network in North America by adding six locations in the U.S. and one in Canada. This brings the total specialty openings to 14 for 2016. “Our latest branch openings complete our plan for 14 new specialty locations in 2016, as part of our ongoing strategic expansion,” says Paul […]

November 16, 2016