The end of the third quarter is here; now is the time to assess what's left in your 2016 budget and determine your fleet's health and well-being. Are there units you've needed to purchase that have languished in the "hold" column until now? Funds left in your 2016 capital budget (that is about to disappear), can help you spruce up your fleet heading into 2017.

IronPlanet's two-day end-of-quarter sale beginning Thursday, September 29 will cross marketplaces: government surplus including military trucks, oilfield equipment, excavators, skid loaders, compactors, tools, attachments, and more. Check out the 420 backhoes and vibratory drum compactors from the Quinn fleet; well-cared-for Freightliner Cascadia 125 T/A Conventional trucks from Walmart, or this 2013 Kenworth T800 T/A Conventional Day Cab.

Go BIG for two days - you can do it!  This huge auction has over 3,000 items that are inspected, online, and available now to preview. 

We're telling you this because we care. At some point this weekend, you're going to walk into a store and see holiday stuff, and we don't mean Halloween pumpkins, because that would be OK. No, you're going to see pine trees and little sweet reindeer and lots of ornaments. We know - you haven't even unpacked your camping gear from Labor Day yet, and you're faced with holiday stuff. It's wrong in so many ways.

IronPlanet feels your pain. Here's an idea: cheer yourself up by checking out the used heavy equipment in IronPlanet's Deal of the Day event, happening Monday, September 26 through Friday, September 30. After that, take a look at the 3,000 plus items in the cross-marketplace, two-day end-of-quater sale beginning Thursday, September 29.

If it's BIG, we dig it at IronPlanet. Our excitement isn't just for awesome auctions like the Humvees on September 13, the Kruse Oilfield Equipment Auction in Duncan, OK on September 14,  the UNRESERVED auction in Dallas/Ft. Worth on September 14,  the GovPlanet auction on September 14, the Pump & Power sale on September 15, and the spectacular two-day auction on September 15-16. We also love big bikes, boats, people - you say "big", we say "love."

We're jazzed about the September 15-16 auctionpalooza because it has items like this 2013 Cat 740B Articulated Dump Truck, this 2010 HREM HRLT-55 Portable Container Loading System,  this 2006 Cat 226B Skid-Steer Loader, and this 2003 Sterling LT9500 Tri/A Mixer Truck.

IronPlanet's September to Remember passes big and makes a beeline to enormous. The September 15-16 auction has everything you want and need, so grab a big shopping cart and get busy! You're going to love it as much as we do.

Debuts in Dallas-Fort Worth Cat Auction Services Construction Equipment Sale
at Texas Motor Speedway

Headlines a Week of 3,500 Items for Sale Across IronPlanet, GovPlanet, Leake Auto, Kruse Energy and Cat Auction Services sales

PLEASANTON, Calif. – IronPlanet^®, a leading online marketplace for selling and buying used equipment and other durable assets, today announced IronPlanet^® LiveStream^TM the next generation in online bidding for live on-site auctions. IronPlanet LiveStream builds on IronPlanet’s leading online technology with new live on-site auction features for buyers who need to stay in the field, on the job, or who prefer the convenience of buying online.

“IronPlanet LiveStream is as close to being in the room with an auctioneer as an experienced buyer could want,” said IronPlanet Chief Marketing Officer, Matt Ackley. “We’ve taken that live on-site knowledge and used our online marketplace expertise to provide a best-in-class experience that our 1.5 million registered users can tap into for any live on-site sale. What’s important is that we’ve integrated our industry leading online bidding process, PriorityBidding, into the ring at a live sale.”

September to remember is getting underway with this week's auction on Thursday, September 8. Hundreds of heavy duty trucks and excavators are up for bid, along with tools, trailers, and lots more.

Bookmark IronPlanet for the rest of the month, because September's auctions are stuffed to the airhorns with everything you love and need:

Friday and Saturday, September 9 and 10, IronPlanet will be in Detroit for a collector's car auction with Leake Auction Company. After that, you'll be back for . . .

. . . the September 13 online All Humvee Sale! 

You literally won't have any reservations about going big in the Lone Star state! On September 14 IronPlanet and Cat Auction Services will be live onsite in Dallas/Ft. Worth. This auction is UNRESERVED and we don't mean the seating. Bid on this 2014 Cat 289D Compact Track Loader or this 2014 Cat CT660S T/A Conventional Day Cab. You'd be crazy to miss this auction.

September 15 and 16 will be the grandaddy of IronPlanet auctions, with over 2,000 items up for bid. Fowler Transportation will be onsite at Marshall, TX and Big Spring, TX with a complete dispersal of over 600 items including this 2011 Kobelco CK850 III Lattice-Boom Crawler Crane, this 2014 Kenworth W900 Tri/A Winch Truck, and this 2008 John Deere 544J Wheel Loader. Bidding for these and other items will take place online.

GovPlanet is going to pump (clap) you up during the Pump & Power sale online September 15, featuring this 1996 Gorman-Rupp 604-F 6" Fuel Transfer Pump and scads of 1987 Gorman-Rupp 609-C 6" Water Pumps, among others.

Great starting bids on trucks, trailers, and more during IronPlanet's September to remember. This is your opportunity to preview the hundreds of trucks and trailers available in our September 8 auction, including this 2012 Freightliner 114SD Tri/A Dump Truck, this 2006 Volvo VNM64T T/A Conventional Day Cab, and this National Crane 900A Straight Boom on 2003 Sterling LT8500 T/A Truck.

Be sure to take a look at our other fantastic auctions happening this month:

You've been waiting for this one: the September 13 online All Humvee Sale! 

Go big in Texas on September 14. IronPlanet and Cat Auction Services will be live in Dallas/Ft. Worth in an UNRESERVED auction. Bid online or onsite - but don't miss out!

September 15 and 16 will be the grandaddy of IronPlanet auctions, with over 2,000 items up for bid. Fowler Transportation will be onsite at Marshall, TX and Big Spring, TX with a complete dispersal of over 600 items.

The Pump & Power sale is online September 15.

My name is Matt Ackley and I am the new CMO at IronPlanet.  I have been in the role for about three months now and the experience has been amazing.  As someone who has 12 years of online auctions on their resume (eight of them at eBay) and another couple of years at Google, it’s great to see online technology really start to have an impact on the heavy equipment industry. In these roles, I had the wonderful opportunity to help pioneer the use of data on both the seller side and buyer side of an online marketplace. Whether it was helping sellers with auction strategy or driving demand to the various eBay categories, data proved to be the lifeblood of our day to day work.  This only accelerated during my time at Google.

At IronPlanet, we are incredibly excited to drive this transformation in the heavy equipment industry. It’s why I joined. This is the first in a series of posts, where I hope to update you on how we are using data to build a more efficient marketplace - a global marketplace that enables buyers to get the equipment they need and sellers to realize the most optimal price for that equipment.  

Listening to an auctioneer do his or her thing is as much fun as bidding. The patter (or chant,  in auctioneer lingo) entices buyers into a game of call-and-response, the speed creates excitement. 

So how great is it that IronPlanet has both heavy equipment and talented auctioneers who make selling it an art form?

A lifetime in the business has given Dustin Rogers, lead auctioneer for Cat Auction Services, knowledge in every corner of auctioneering. He's sensitive to circumstances surrounding the sale, can spot a cautious bidder from 20 paces, and knows how to use technology to generate sales. A third generation auctioneer, he learned and shaped his chant by listening to his grandfather, father, and other callers since he was old enough to help out around the event.

Listening shaped his style; practice made him fast. Like zero-to-90 fast. Dustin has won trophies as First Runner-Up in the Men's International Auctioneer Champion competition for the past two years in a row. 

What bidders see at auction is the product of a ton of work that took place leading up to the marquee event. For weeks before, there are client meetings, contract writing, marketing, venue setup and good old schlepping. Dustin spoke (at regular speed) about his experience in auctioneering and what it takes to make a great auction company.

Go on - admit it. Way back in the beginning of your career, you were sent to fetch a board stretcher. Or spots for the spot welder.

The snipe hunt has provided laughs in every profession that's been around long enough to have an old-timer and a newbie. Computer nerds tell younger geeks to fetch a length of W-LAN cable. Metric hammers and lef-handed wrenches are hiding at every construction site. Chopping flour doesn't break up gluten, and if you're in the body shop and somebody tells you to find the blinker fluid . . . well, consider yourself warned.

This guy really put some thought into his version of the snipe hunt.  

Portland concrete has been the guy forever, but a new alpha is sniffing around. ConFlexPave, developed by scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, is a concrete that's mixed with polymer microfibers to make it bendable and less prone to cracks. The claim is it will reduce construction time and increase worker safety at the jobsite. So far testing has been done only on tablet-sized slabs; road-sized experiments will be conducted over the next three years.

IronPlanet loves a good road with all of its big yellow heart. The September 1 auction features a 2013 Komatsu D155AX-7 Crawler Tractor, a 2016 John Deere 470G LC track excavator, and a 2014 Komatsu D61PX-23 crawler tractor, ready to go wherever your project is located.

Take a look at our selection of trucks: We've got a 2012 Kenworth W900 T/A Conventional Day Cab, a 2005 Mack CXN613 T/A Conventional Day Cab, a 2012 Kenworth T370 Cargo Truck, a 2010 Freightliner M2 106 Refrigerated Truck, and many more.