GovPlanet is super-excited to have supplied the popular MotorTrend show "Drift This" with a HMMWV for their customizing pleasure. The military vehicle will be featured on Episode 5, which airs on June 26th on the MotorTrend app and on motortrend.com.
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GovPlanet HMMWV to be featured on new episode of 'Drift This'
Topics: Government Surplus, govplanet
Utah Contractor Looks to IronPlanet for Selling Solution
Associated Brigham Contractors is celebrating 60 years in 2019—starting from humble beginnings and growing into one of the largest contractors in the state of Utah. Specializing in structural concrete work for industrial mills, ABC has jobs, employees, and equipment all over the United States.
Topics: ironplanet, selling, contractors
Bobcat recently unveiled the UV34 and UV34XL -- its latest entry into the competitive utility vehicle space. These diesel UTVs are designed to tow trailers, transport crew, and haul materials, tools and equipment, while ensuring maximum productivity and performance at worksites, according to the company.
Topics: Press Releases, 2019
Introducing Caterpillar's Latest Compact Track Loader
Caterpillar recently highlighted the Cat 299D2 XHP Land Management compact track loader: a purpose-built machine designed to handle your brush-cutting, mulching, mowing and vegetation control needs across site preparation, fire prevention, railroad maintenance, agriculture and forestry work sites.
Topics: Press Releases, Heavy Equipment, 2019
Summer is about to get a little hotter! Your trusted classic car experts at Leake Auction Company are returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma this week for a three-day auction with over 450 beautiful vehicles up for grabs, 185 of which are selling without reserve and may go for under market value. This is an exciting opportunity to finally pick up the car of your dreams at the perfect price. Running June 6th, 2019 through June 8th, each day of the auction brings a new lineup of sports cars, convertibles and exotics guaranteed to satisfy car enthusiasts of every taste, with the personal collection of a bonafide country music legend helping to close out the show on Saturday.
CARB compliance in California presents opportunity for sellers
Transport truck owners based in California will need to meet the California Air Resource Board’s (CARB) new Truck and Bus Regulation beginning in 2020. Vehicles that do not meet these new emissions requirements – trucks produced before 2010 – will have registration blocked by the state’s DMV.
Topics: transport, ironplanet, 2019
Autonomous Innovation Hub Puts Komatsu in the Driver’s Seat
Following an announcement for LTE broadband functionality earlier this year, Komatsu has continued their streak of technological innovation by launching their own Center of Excellence (CoE) for Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS) in April 2019. This new Arizona-based hub will become the epicenter for all future planning, marketing, strategy, training and sales support for Komatsu's line of self-driving mining solutions.
Topics: Construction, Heavy Equipment, Industry Headlines
Mike and Helen Faulkner have been farming and ranching their whole lives—on a fourth-generation farm in Gooding, Idaho. Seeing an opportunity in the market in 1992 the couple started a harvest chopping business that quickly grew to become one of the largest in the area.
Topics: customer, agriculture
More than 120,000 people check out first set of ITVs & MTVRs on GovPlanet
Over the next year, Ritchie Bros.’ GovPlanet marketplace will sell hundreds of U.S. Marine Corps (non-DLA) ITV and MTVR vehicles. The first five of each were sold on March 20 to considerable fanfare, as more than 120,000 people logged on to GovPlanet to check out the vehicles.
Customer transforms HMMWV Humvee Vehicle purchased from GovPlanet
Every Wednesday, during our weekly online auction, GovPlanet finds new homes for the military surplus HMMWV Humvee Vehicles we sell. But we don't always get to hear about what happens to the vehicles after they're sold. Fortunately, customer Colin Gorman of Henderson, NV, was nice enough to share with us his experience and all the cool transformations he did to the HMMWV Humvee Vehicle he bought from GovPlanet. Here's Colin, in his own words, describing the sale process and the modifications he performed.