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Dealers
P2P heavy equipment rental, online sales aren’t here to disrupt dealers—they’re an evolution
During a 2015 talk on innovation and how he and his team were working to transform 90-year-old heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar into a company whose machines move as much data as they do dirt, then CEO Doug Oberhelman had a unique way of describing his motivation. “We decided that maybe we better disrupt ourselves—in […]
November 21, 2017
Dealers
Business Roundup: United buying Neff; Why Cat bought Yard Club; Talbert’s top dealers; Doosan adds Roland Machinery; Fabick donates $600,000
Talbert Manufacturing recognizes top 10 dealers of 2016 Talbert Manufacturing recently recognized its top 10 dealers for high performance in selling trailers, service and parts for 2016, with Hale Trailer Brake & Wheel of Voorhees, New Jersey, being named its top dealer for the ninth consecutive year. “Hale continues to lead our North American dealer network year after […]
August 29, 2017
Construction Equipment
Cat’s Yard Club acquisition wasn’t really about equipment sharing
When news broke in May that Caterpillar had acquired peer-to-peer (P2P) equipment service Yard Club, it raised a lot of eyebrows in the heavy equipment and construction industries. The deal, terms of which were never disclosed, gave considerable weight to the notion that P2P equipment rental services, which allow contractors to rent machines in their […]
August 18, 2017
Dealers
Business Roundup: RDO partners with iVolve; Caterpillar buys Yard Club; Holt Cat donates to workforce development; Cashman Equipment gets Cat 5-Star
RDO Equipment partners with iVolve on mining equipment fleet management RDO Equipment has joined the iVolve partner program as a national distributor for the U.S mining market providing the latter’s fleet management systems for mining equipment customers. “iVolve is excited to work with RDO Equipment Co., extending their current product offerings to include full fleet management,” says iVolve […]
May 16, 2017
Dealers
Caterpillar acquires Yard Club, a contractor-to-contractor equipment rental service
Two years after investing in and providing some of its own dealer inventory to the service, Caterpillar has acquired Yard Club, a startup that facilitates contractor-to-contractor equipment rental. A Yard Club spokesperson reached out to Equipment World to confirm the acquisition, but the deal was first reported by TechCrunch.. Caterpillar has yet to acknowledge the deal in an official capacity […]
May 8, 2017
Dealers
Modustri launches machine wear and management system for Caterpillar dealers
Caterpillar dealers can now use mobile devices to monitor wear on parts to help them forecast inventory requirements and to keep up with customer needs for repairs and maintenance. Software developer Modustri created the Cat Wear Management System for Cat’s worldwide dealer network. The company had previously partnered with Cat on the HDE Inspection kit, […]
November 29, 2016
Dealers
Caterpillar invests in, adds dealer inventory to Yard Club, an online contractor-to-contractor equipment rental service
Most contractors outside of San Francisco have likely never heard of Yard Club. But thanks to an investment from and substantial partnership with Caterpillar, that’s about to change. Caterpillar announced today that it has entered into an agreement that will greatly expand the startup equipment rental service, founded in 2013. Much in the same way […]
May 7, 2015
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