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.