PLEASANTON, Calif. (June 11, 2013) – IronPlanet®, the online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy equipment, today announced it has entered into an alliance with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) for the creation of a marketplace for aircraft.

“For the past 13 years, our innovative technology has made equipment buying and selling more efficient for the construction industry," said Greg Owens, CEO, IronPlanet. “Now, we’re excited to bring our expertise to support the needs of AOPA and its members within the aviation community.”

Managing fleets requires ongoing diligence to ensure that underutilized equipment can be easily and quickly replaced with different items. When developing a fleet management strategy, understanding the benefits of online used equipment auctions can help fleet managers better maximize value. Maintaining equipment with its eventual sale in mind and knowing its present market value are variables that can help yield higher profits when it’s time to rotate the fleet.

To read more about the benefits of using online used equipment auctions and developing a fleet maintenance strategy, check out our Rental Management article from Paul Hendrix, equipment pricing analyst for IronPlanet.

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.

PLEASANTON, Calif. (April 25, 2013) – IronPlanet®, a leading online marketplace for used heavy equipment, today launched TruckPlanet^SM, an online marketplace dedicated exclusively to buying and selling used commercial trucks.

“We are very excited to bring the same marketplace that changed the used equipment business to the truck industry,” said Greg Owens, CEO of IronPlanet. “Truck buyers and sellers can now enjoy the convenience and confidence at TruckPlanet that our used equipment customers have come to know and trust at IronPlanet.”

IronPlanet®, a leading online marketplace for used heavy equipment, will host a truck-only auction on Wednesday, April 24. The auction will include hundreds of road ready trucks from sellers across the United States.

Auction lineup features 59 conventional trucks, 32 dump trucks, 26 pickup trucks, 17 flatbed trucks, 11 service/utility trucks, 9 cargo trucks and more, including brands like Ford, Freightliner, International, Mack, Peterbilt, and more.

Every three years, professionals from the construction industry come together in Munich at bauma, the international trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, construction vehicles and construction equipment. This year marks the 30th gathering of the world’s largest trade fair, taking place April 15-21, 2013. More than 420,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to walk the 570,000 square meters of exhibition space. More than 3,300 exhibitors from 54 countries will showcase their innovations and services.