Pleasanton, Calif. – May 15, 2013 – IronPlanet®, a leading online marketplace for used heavy equipment, will host an auction on May 16 featuring mining equipment in Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Items include a 1972 Manitowoc 4600 Vicon Dragline, an Atlas Copco DML-XL 1200 Rock Drill and a Letourneau L-950 Wheel Loader, as well as Komatsu track excavators, Caterpillar and Komatsu off-road end dump trucks, Trail King tri-axle live bottom trailers and more.

Pleasanton, Calif. – May 13, 2013 – IronPlanet®, a leading online marketplace for used heavy equipment, will host an auction on May 15 featuring trucks and trailers from R.N. Industries, a full-service fluid transportation company with specialization in the oil and gas industry.

The auction includes heavy haul Kenworth and Peterbilt cabs, Dragon 130BBL and 170BBL vacuum trailers, vacuum trucks, Mack day cabs, water trucks, flatbeds and much more. The trucks are located in Colorado, North Dakota, Utah and Pennsylvania.

PLEASANTON, Calif. (May 1, 2013) – TruckPlanet^SM, an online marketplace for buying and selling used commercial trucks, will offer more than 300 Ryder road-ready trucks for sale on Tuesday, May 7.

“We are very excited to offer Ryder trucks as our first auction on TruckPlanet,” said Randy Berry, president of TruckPlanet. “With a wide variety of road-ready trucks from Ryder located across the northeastern U.S., and our exclusive IronClad Assurance®, this TruckPlanet exclusive event will draw online bidders from around the world.”

IronPlanet®, a leading online marketplace for used heavy equipment, will host an auction on May 2 featuring late-model, well-maintained trucks, trailers and equipment located throughout Texas.

Items include a 2005 Mack CHN613 T/A Conventional Day Cab, three 2009 Troxell 130-Barrel T/A Vacuum Trailers, four 2006-2004 Mack CH613 T/A Truck Tractors as well as pickup trucks, dump trucks, flatbed trucks, skid-steer loaders, hydraulic excavators and more.

IronPlanet®, a leading online marketplace for used heavy equipment, today celebrates the 13th anniversary of its first auction.

“We’re very excited to celebrate the 13 years of growth we’ve accomplished since our first auction,” said Greg Owens, CEO, IronPlanet. “Since 2000, more than 900,000 registered users around the world have joined IronPlanet, selling over $3 billion of equipment. We will continue to lead the way by providing the premier online-only marketplace for buyers and sellers of used equipment.”

Bank of London and The Middle East (BLME), an independent British, wholesale Sharia’a compliant bank, selected IronPlanet as its sole used equipment remarketing partner in 2008. The partnership with IronPlanet was a strategic decision that has generated successful results.
Selecting the Best Way to Remarket Machinery
When selecting the best way to remarket its used machinery and equipment, there were a number of factors that BLME had to consider carefully. First and foremost, the bank needed to ensure that it always got back what it put into a machine. “Residual value, the outstanding amount of money that is still invested in the asset, is our primary concern when remarketing used equipment. Of course, we need to guarantee that when a machine is remarketed we cover this, and make a profit too,” said Mark Jarvis, Senior Leasing Manager at BLME.

IronPlanet team members Jeff Jeter, Carson Erickson, Bill Fisher, Scott Walter, and Lisa Burgess recently attended the AED Summit & Condex in Las Vegas from January 15 – 17, 2013. As a sponsor of the event, IronPlanet hosted an informational booth featuring a demonstration of the online auction and provided high quality tote bags for conference attendees.The expo was held at the Las Vegas Hotel & Casino and attracted a national and Canadian audience interested in products and services essential to dealer profitability, business information, and industry seminars to help stay on top of 2013 trends.

IronPlanet recently liquidated $6.08 million of gross merchandise volume for Western States Contracting of Myton, Utah.

“This was our biggest sale ever with IronPlanet,” said Weston Adams with Western States Contracting. “We had some very specialized equipment in this auction and we were able to get a lot more than we expected for it. IronPlanet knew the equipment and where to find the buyers. They went above and beyond, working really well with our mechanics and our entire team to make this sale a success. We are very pleased with the result.”

IronPlanet will host its weekly Featured Auction on Thursday, November 1, and this week's sale has more than 850 items available to bidders. Those in need of drill, bore and trench equipment may want to check out the listings, as there are many options for these items in this sale, including road plates, trench shields and multiple lots of drill rods. The Featured Auction includes many other items, from construction equipment such as excavators and skid steer loaders to vehicles such as dump trucks and tractor trailers. With less than 24 hours until the auction begins, it can be a good idea for interested buyers to check out the offerings, so they are prepared to bid when the goods they want reach the auction block.

IronPlanet's weekly Featured Auction is a great place for construction companies, farmers and other labor professionals to find used construction equipment and agriculture equipment for affordable prices. The October 18 sale has more than 800 items, ranging from large machinery such as excavators and compactors to smaller items including tools, parts and generators. Interested buyers can visit the IronPlanet website to browse the selection ahead of the auction and find the goods they need. They can place a Priority Bid on a particular listing or make note of its auction time to be prepared to compete for their goods when the sale begins.