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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

Caterpillar pushes dealers missing out on billions in sales each year to increase use of telematics data

Contractors aren’t the only ones not using telematics. Dealers of the largest heavy equipment manufacturer in the world are also being urged to up their use of the valuable data the technology creates. Caterpillar says its dealers are failing to capture somewhere in the range of $9 billion and $18 billion in revenue each year, […]

May 21, 2014

Dealers

In a digital age, survey shows contractors still value personal interactions with equipment dealers

So how do contractors want to interact with equipment dealers today? A joint Associated Equipment Distributors/Randall-Reilly research project, conducted by our Equipment Data Associates division and tapping the opinions of Equipment World readers, delves into this topic. While technology advances and societal changes are pushing certain approaches to the fore, there are plenty of indications […]

April 25, 2014

Dealers

Link-Belt’s top 5 dealers, a new Bobcat dealer plus Kobelco and Terex promotions 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 just about every week with news on hires, promotions, new locations and expansions. Check back for a new edition on Fridays. Link-Belt announces its Top 5 dealers for 2013 […]

February 7, 2014

Dealers

Case dealer modifies CX250C excavator for operator who lost hand

Now this is customer service. A Case Construction equipment dealer from Tromso, Norway has modified a CX250C crawler excavator so that one of its best customers’ operators can return to work after an accident that took much of his right hand. Contractor KIME Maskinentreprenor Kare Isaksen, which does pipe and underwater excavation, road and pavement construction, […]

April 28, 2013

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Caterpillar CEO talks Bauma, telematics and customers

From Munich and the Bauma show, Caterpillar recently posted a video interview to YouTube with its Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman. In the video Oberhelman says he really enjoys the opportunities to learn that a show like Bauma affords him. “This is kind of where it all comes together because you have customers here that […]

April 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Why you need an equipment dealer

Recently I attended a meeting with a new customer regarding a new product line that we had acquired and would soon be representing. This is a big opportunity for us and I was really looking forward to meeting their management team and introducing them to the key players in our organization who would be working […]

April 12, 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

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