Join us starting TODAY, February 8th for our Largest Unreserved Public Auction Ever!  Your chance to bid on over 2,300 items throughout the week. Today be sure to check out skid steers (57), compact track loaders (104), backhoes (116), plus telehandlers, forklifts, forestry, agricultural and aerial equipment and much more! Join the auction LIVE in Orlando at 5000 Oren Brown Road, Kissimmee, or online here!  Check back each day for featured daily items! #IPOrlandoandBeyond2016.

GovPlanet, IronPlanet’s online marketplace for used government surplus, is auctioning three High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs), or Humvees during it's annual auction in Kissimmee, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit the Fisher House Foundation, a charity that primary 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.One Humvee will be auctioned on each day from Tuesday, February 9 through Thursday, February 11, at approximately noon ET.  Check out the three Humvees up for bid below:

Heavy Equipment and Trucks from Cat^® Dealers, Leading OEMs, Rental Companies, Dealers, Construction Companies and Other Key Sellers Highlight Five Days of Sales

Coming up Thursday, February 4,  IronPlanet's weekly featured auction has nearly 900 pieces of equipment for sale.  Look for Freightliner Cascadia Day Cabs, dump trucks, crawler tractors, excavators, loaders and more! All equipment comes with IronPlanet's IronClad Assurance®  equipment condition certification, which gives buyers the confidence to buy online knowing they have an accurate representation of equipment condition.

IronPlanet is pleased to partner with Leake Auction Company to promote 40 Corvettes from renowned collector Tom Falbo. Among the 40 Corvettes to be sold, the collection includes a rare 1967 L89 Corvette.  All Corvettes will be sold WITHOUT RESERVE during Leake's Oklahoma City auction, February 19, 20, 21 in the Cox Pavillion on the OKC Fairgrounds.  

The collection features Corvettes from 1957-1975, with twenty from 1967. All Corvettes are documented, numbers matching the originals with low mileage. In addition to the 40 Corvettes, 75 other vehicles will also be offered without reserve. To all collectors and auto enthusiasts - you won't want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Check out some interesting industry headlines from the last week of January:

Halliburton Focusing on Higher-Dollar Customers During Downturn:President (Platts)
" The low oil prices of the past year, which are expected to continue in 2016, have led oilfield services giant Halliburton to focus on larger, higher-dollar customers, a top executive said Monday. Those customers typically have "fairway acreage in the [top] basins and stronger balance sheets," company president Jeff Miller said during a quarterly conference call. In North America, where the downturn that began in mid-2014, but sharpened late that year, and has been most severe, Halliburton's top 17 customers comprise 50% of its revenues, Miller said."  Read more

Own a Piece of U.S. Military History: IronPlanet to Donate Proceeds from Humvees Sold in Annual Orlando Auction to Fisher House Foundation

Join us for two days, starting tomorrow Thursday and Friday, January 28 and 29 for our Western Winter Sale! IronPlanet's featured auction includes a complete dispersal/estate liquidation featuring over 400 items from Hunt Ranches in Colorado, 52 Day Cabs and Vacuum Tanker Trailers from BOH in North Dakota and 33 items from TDK  - a one owner sale with items located in Tennessee. This package includes over 1700 items - a HUGE variety of everything  from dump trucks to day cabs, tools and shop equipment, to motor scrapers, recreational vehicles and snowmobiles to trucks, tractors and farm equipment. (More details here). All items are available now to preview, and be sure to read inspection reports and get financing (if needed) arranged ahead of auction day. You won't want to miss this one!

Join us on Thursday, January 28 for our online auction featuring multiple trucks and trailers from BOH. Sale includes 16 Peterbilt Conventional Day Cabs, 10 Columbia Quad/A Vacuum Tanker Trailers, 9 Century Quad/A Vacuum Tanker Trailers, 12 Industrias Quad/A Vacuum Tanker Trailers, pump parts and more.  All items located in North Dakota.  All late model, low miles equipment available for preview now!  

Check out some interesting industry headlines from this week.

Walmart Foundation Grant Gives Women Chance to Try Construction (Daily Iowegian)
" Iowa Workforce Development, IowaWORKS and Hawkeye Community College are using a Walmart Foundation Grant in the amount of $75,000 to introduce low-income Iowa women to construction jobs. According to the latest "PROMISE JOBS Employment and Wage Report", construction is the second highest paying industry for men enrolled in the PROMISE JOBS program. However, a demographic breakdown, by gender, of individuals working in this occupation indicates that females represent only 2.3 percent of the workforce. Data also indicates this is an industry showing growth in projected openings and wages. Specifically for Heavy Equipment Operators, the average hourly wage is $20.84 per hour.” Read more