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Dealers

Equipment Roundup: VIDEO > Cat 306 CR stick-steer + XTC; The Top Roadbuilding Equipment of 2019; Heavy truck market settles down; Winter’s here. It’s time to check dozer undercarriage wear; ASV to offer two Posi-Track configurations

ASV to offer base, premium configurations for Posi-Track loaders ASV is now offering base and premium configuration for its mid-sized Posi-Track loaders. Base configurations will offer a lower-cost option for operators while the premium package will provide additional production and comfort features, the company says. Both configurations will feature ASV’s Posi-Track undercarriage.   To read […]

January 6, 2020

Dealers

IronTek takes aim at streamlining fleet inventory sales, rental management

Designed as a “faster, cheaper way to simplify fleet and inventory management,” IronTek Solutions says its mobile app and website pairs traditional equipment services with software created to steamline day-to-day activities. “Our platform allows fleet managers and owners to quickly identify which machines make the most sense to sell, create a hotlist that can […]

January 6, 2020

Dealers

Quick Data: Top-selling articulated dump trucks and sales trends

A snapshot of new and used sales trends from Randall-Reilly’s EDA equipment financing data and TopBid auction price service.

January 3, 2020

Dealers

Trail King names Hartman district sales manager

Trailer manufacturer Trail King Industries has named Mark Hartman as a district sales manager. Hartman will support sales and dealer relationships in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Hartman comes to Trail King with more than 30 years of sales experience, much of it in the construction equipment industry. Most recently, Hartman was a territory account […]

January 3, 2020

Dealers

JLG adds financial muscle for Canadian rental outlets

Canadian-based CWB National Leasing will be JLG Financial’s funder of choice for its new retail financing program in Canada. Launched in November 2018, JLG Financial is a division of Oshkosh-owned JLG Industries, maker of mobile elevating work platforms and telehandlers. With approximately 700 JLG rental outlets in Canada, the company says the partnership is “designed […]

January 1, 2020

Dealers

The two tiered technician field—and why dirty hands will still be required

In recent weeks we’ve published a couple of stories that provide an interesting contrast. If you click here, you’ll find our fourth and final report on the technician shortage. This article focuses on the future of technicians and all the digital tools they will be wielding soon. Click here and you’ll find ourour article on […]

December 30, 2019

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: The Top Equipment Stories of 2019; VIDEO: Komatsu Proactive Grading Control; Sneak Peek: Kioti’s new tractors; Eterra Vortex Stump Grinder; New Atlas Copco XAS 950 air compressor

Atlas Copco’s new XAS 950 air compressor logs 15% fuel savings The XAS 950 portable air compressor from Atlas Copco features new technology that matches the compressor’s engine speed, power and torque with air demand. Called pressure adjusted through cognitive electronics, or PACE, the technology leads to a 15 to 20 percent increase in fuel […]

December 30, 2019

Dealers

Ann Fandozzi named CEO of Ritchie Bros.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers has named Ann Fandozzi as its new CEO, effective Jan. 6. Fandozzi comes to Ritchie from ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a national damaged vehicle repair company, where Ritchie says she “engineered a step-change in profitability and laid the foundation for an all-new customer experience through technology.” “She brings a strong customer […]

December 26, 2019

Construction Equipment

Compact equipment goes big time

It’s not surprising that we’re hearing tales of compact equipment sales in some geographical areas growing 40 percent per year from 2015 to 2018. The construction industry has seemingly gone gaga over these versatile, maneuverable machines. From a sheer numbers standpoint, you could even say they’ve taken over. Three compact machines – for this part […]

December 25, 2019

Construction Equipment

Welding skills and innovative thinking earn John Kelchner AEMP Technician of the Year award

“I always had a lot of interest in mechanical things, even at an early age. I was curious about how things worked. If it had moving parts, I wanted to fix it,” says John Kelchner, advanced level maintenance welder at Schlouch Incorporated, a diversified earthmoving, utility and site development company in Blandon, Pennsylvania. “It is […]

December 25, 2019

Dealers

United Rentals ups tool management offerings

Do you know where all your tools are? It’s not such a simple question to answer given the daily variables and moving assets (human and inanimate) on a construction jobsite, compounded by external forces such as weather and change orders. Tools also break or get lost and some “walk off,” only to appear the next […]

December 24, 2019

Dealers

How premiere SoCal equipment dealer Bejac grew out of a liquidation sale

In 1985 Ron Barlet was going to night school to earn his masters degree in business administration while working at a leasing finance company. When his father-in-law, an underground contractor, unexpectedly passed away, the family decided to dissolve the company. Barlet, because of his business background, was asked to liquidate the company’s heavy equipment assets. […]

December 23, 2019