Everything's bigger in Texas, including our Cat Auction Services onsite auction! Join us May 3, for a live, Unreserved Public Auction at The Speedway Club in Fort Worth, Texas!  If you plan to attend in person, save time by registering early. Event details and directions to the location can be found here.

This regional auction includes over 400 high-quality, late-model, low-hour pieces of equipment from Caterpillar, John Deere, Mack, Volvo, Blaw-Knox, Ford and more, including: articulated trucks, crawler tractors, excavators, motor scrapers, motor graders, flatbed, service and conventional trucks and much more. Hope to see you there!

Join us Tuesday, May 3, as IronPlanet marketplace Cat Auction Services holds a live, Unreserved Public Auction in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. This exciting auction features nearly 400 low hour, late-model items equipment from Caterpillar, John Deere, Volvo, Komatsu and much more. If you're attending in person, be sure to register ahead of time and preview equipment onsite from now until May 2nd. If you're planning to bid online, all items are now available to view on IronPlanet.com along with our IronClad Assurance inspection reports.

Join us Thursday, April 28 for our end of the month online auction with over 1,300 pieces of equipment! This week, we are featuring mining equipmeAlso, look for 17 professionally-maintained trucks from Walmart, including 3 spotter trucks! Preview all items here and line up your Priority Bid!  

Don't miss these featured items from Canada this week as we Spring Into Action with our end of April auctions! Bid on these and much more starting now!

GovPlanet, IronPlanet’s online marketplace for used government surplus will be participating in this weekend's Air Power Expo in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday, April 23 to Sunday April, 24. The Air Power Expo is a free to the public air show, featuring aeriel performers, aircraft on display and specialized ground attractions.  This year's expo will feature a performance by the United States Navy Blue Angels. Stop by our booth and say hello!

IronPlanet's will close out April with four days of sales next week, beginning Tuesday, April 26 through Friday, April 29. We'll kick off on Tuesday, April 26 with Tools, Parts & Attachments. Wednesday, April 27, will be our last GovPlanet auction of April, and Thursday and Friday will be our huge two-day end of month sale featuring over 1700 equipment and trucks. Here are few featured items to look for next week!

Susan Stillings, chief marketing officer, IronPlanet, shares her insights on maximizing the online marketplace when buying and selling heavy equipment in the latest issue of Construction Business Owner. 

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Join us the last Tuesday of each month for a special Tools, Parts and Attachments Sale. Our Tuesday, April 26th sale will features hundreds of accessories and parts that extend the life and capabilities of your machines. Look for concrete forms, buckets, pipe, trench shields, wheels, barriers, steel beams and much more. Check back each month to find the parts you are looking for!

Join us Thursday, April 21 for our weekly online auction with over 1,000 pieces of equipment! This week we are featuring over 35 pieces of low hour, late-model John Deere equipment.  Look for articulated dump trucks, crawler tractors, wheel loaders, motor graders, track excavators and more! Preview all items here and line up your Priority Bid! 

IronPlanet is featured in this recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about U.S. Government Humvees. Collectors, military enthusiasts, rural property owners, farmers, hunters, anglers and gear heads are snapping them up as soon as they go on sale. Find out how GovPlanet is selling the surplus military equipment and splitting the proceeds with the governement.

Read the full story here: http://goo.gl/rsn3mg 

GovPlanet, IronPlanet’s online marketplace for used government surplus, successfully auctioned three High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs), or Humvees, during its five day auction in Orlando last January, with the proceeds going to benefit the Fisher House Foundation. The Fisher House Foundation supports a network of comfort homes where military and veterans' families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. The Foundation also manages a grant program that supports other military charities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses and children of fallen and disabled veterans.

Check out some interesting headlines around the industry this week.

World's 2nd Largest Private Coal Mining Company Files Chapter 11 (Construction Equipment)
Peabody Energy, the world's largest private-sector coal producer, has filed for bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Trading on the NYSE was suspended immediately. Peabody (BTU) shares closed Wednesday at $2.07, down from its high of $299.10 in 2014. The company listed $10.1 billion in debts and $11 billion in assets, including ownership interest in 26 active mines in the U.S. and Australia. Shareholders with at least 5 percent of the company are Blackrock, Kopernik Global Investors, Vanguard Group, and Susquehanna Securities, according to the filing. Read more

Save the date! Please join us at the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex  for our upcoming Unreserved Public Auction on May 3, with featured sellers HOLT CAT, Louisiana Cat, Mustang Cat, PipeLine Machinery, Riggs CAT and Warren CAT.  Place your bids onsite or online during the auction. Equipment is backed by IronPlanet’s IronClad Assurance® equipment condition certification. Also, certain Cat® equipment will be backed by the Cat Equipment Protection Plan. Don't miss this opportunity to bid on nearly 300 items! Onsite preview available starting April 19 . Details below:

This Wednesday April 20,  IronPlanet is hosting its first live Unreserved Public Auction in the UK at Rockingham Motor Speedway! Hosted by Finning, this landmark auction will feature over 170 pieces of high-quality Cat equipment and machinery from other dealers, rental customers and construction companies in the UK and from across the continent. Place your bids onsite or online during the auction. Equipment is backed by IronPlanet’s IronClad Assurance® equipment condition certification. Onsite preview will be available starting April 18. Details below:

Coming this weekend! Join us April 15-17 as IronPlanet and Leake Auction Company join forces to present the Dallas Spring Collector Car Auction. 500 collector vehicles, trucks and motorcycles will be featured and offered to local and international bidders both onsite and online. The onsite auction will be held at Dallas Market Hall, 2200 N. Stemmons Freeway in Dallas Texas on Friday, April 15 through Sunday, April 17. Onsite bids may be placed here.

GovPlanet, IronPlanet’s online marketplace for used government surplus will be onsite at the Kansas Prepper Expo on Saturday, April 16 to Sunday, April 17. The Expo is a two-day event that showcases military products, tactical arms, food and water storage, horseback riding schools, precious metal and bullion dealers and wilderness survival schools.

For the past decade or so, Alberta has been Canada’s economic powerhouse, thanks mostly to the province’s robust energy sector. But that all changed last year with an oil price drop of 70 percent from mid-2014.

The fall-out is being felt throughout the province - unemployment has nearly doubled from a year ago, crime is on the rise and even one of Grande Prairie’s long-running country music festivals has been cancelled.

Amidst the turmoil, local Caterpillar dealer, Finning, and its customers have been weathering the storm and reorienting their businesses.

Join us tomorrow, April 13 as IronPlanet marketplace Cat Auction Services holds a live, Unreserved Public Auction in Denver, Colorado. If you plan to attend in person, save time by registering early. You may also preview equipment onsite ahead of time. If you're planning to bid online, all items are now available to view on IronPlanet.com along with our IronClad Assurance inspection reports. Event details and location can be found here.

This regional auction includes over 190 high-quality, late-model, low-hour pieces of equipment from Caterpillar, John Deere, Mack, Volvo, Load King, Ford and more, including: articulated trucks, crawler tractors, excavators, motor scrapers, motor graders, flatbed, service and conventional trucks and much more. Hope to see you there!

Join us Thursday, April 14 for an Inventory Reduction Sale from MBT Trucking in Vernal, Utah. Over 30 truck tractors and vacuum-tank trailers will be highlighted during the sale from manufacturers Kenworth, Peterbilt, Dragon and more. 

Onsite Equipment Preview: April 8-9, 2016 9:00am-5:00pm

Address: 4898 South 4625 East, Vernal, Utah

Check out some interesting headlines around the industry this week.

Halliburton-Baker Hughes Merger Pain Seen Sparking Deals (Bloomberg)

If Halliburton Co.’s bid to buy Baker Hughes Inc. fails, it may spark a scramble for deals among beaten-down oil-services firms. U.S. antitrust officials sued to stop the merger of the world’s second -and third-largest oilfield companies, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement Wednesday. The lawsuit claims the deal violates antitrust laws by eliminating competition between the firms. An offer by Halliburton and Baker Hughes to sell assets to resolve the government’s concerns wasn’t satisfactory. Read more

Join us Wednesday, April 13 as IronPlanet marketplace Cat Auction Services holds a live, Unreserved Public Auction in Denver, Colorado. This is our third regional onsite auction this year, part of a string of events spanning the U.S., Canada and the UK. This exciting auction features nearly 200 low hour, late-model items equipment from Caterpillar, Kenworth, Peterbilt, John Deere and much more.

If you're attending in person, be sure to register ahead of time and preview equipment onsite over the next few days. If you're planning to bid online, all items are now available to view on IronPlanet.com along with our IronClad Assurance inspection reports. 

Place your bids NOW for IronPlanet's military surplus sale. Join us Wednesday, April 6 for GovPlanet's weekly auction featuring an array of surplus military equipment. Look for over 350 items up for bid - Humvees, trucks, handlers, forklifts, and more. Preview the auction items now. Read inspection reports, match available machines against your needs, and place your bids now! 

Save the date! Please join us in Denver, CO, for our upcoming Unreserved Public Auction on April 13, hosted by Wagner Equipment Co. Place your bids onsite or online during the auction. Equipment is backed by IronPlanet’s IronClad Assurance® equipment condition certification. Also, certain Cat® equipment will be backed by the Cat Equipment Protection Plan. Don't miss this opportunity to bid on nearly 200 items! Onsite preview available starting April 1. Details below:

Join us Thursday, April 7 as we kick-off Spring with a huge sale and tons of trucks!  Over 1100 items including ten (10) 2010 Freightliner and International refrigerated trucks, 20 telehandlers, 21 wheel loaders and much more. We are also featuring 33 exceptionally well-maintained Walmart trucks!  Preview all auction items now and place your priority bid here.

Check out some interesting headlines around the industry this week.

$1.5 Billion Vegas Spaghetti Bowl Overhaul Starts April 7 (Construction Equipment)
"The huge overhaul of the Las Vegas Spaghetti Bowl, often called Project Neon, will officially get under way April 7th. The intersection at the merge of  State Route 564, I-215, I-515, U.S Route 93 and U.S Route 95 is the busiest stretch of roadway in Nevada and on average sees 300,000 vehicles a day, 25,000 lane changes an hour — and three crashes every day."   Read more