You’ll stretch your dollar thanks to a struggling loonie.

Americans are snapping up Canadian deals on everything from cars to wine and used heavy equipment to vacation properties. The weaker Canadian dollar means American bucks go a lot further in Canada for those quick cross-border trips, online purchases or extended holidays to the Rockies. Meanwhile, as The Financial Post reported, Canadians need a bank loan to buy a head of Californian cauliflower. So go the currency markets.

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Cat Auction Services and Finning buy and sell all makes and models

Canadians are astute shoppers, especially when all of their NHL hockey teams are waiting till next year. They’re also seasoned navigators of the mysteries of brand names. They know that Canadian Tire sells more than just tires; that Tim Hortons offers coffee and donuts, not Maple Leaf memorabilia and Hudson’s Bay anchors not boats in harbour, but shopping malls.

On the Canadian stage, Cat Auction Services is a relatively new brand. Understandably, some Canadian equipment owners still believe that the new kid on the live auction block only deals with the Caterpillar brand. If that’s your assumption Canada, as Canadian Jeopardy host Alex Trebek would say, “sorry but you are incorrect.”

Join us tomorrow, May 25 as IronPlanet marketplace Cat Auction Services holds a live, Unreserved Public Auction in Ballard, Utah. This regional auction is a one-owner complete dispersal sale for R.J. Taylor-Wyatt. View all 900+ items for sale. In Ring 1, look for items specific to pipeline projects such as: Cat® Pipelayers from D7Gs to 561s, Komatsu Excavators from PC290LC-10s to a PC200LC, Tesmec Trenchers from a TRS1475 to a Vermeer T850, plus trucks and trailers. Ring 2 will feature hundreds of miscellaneous shop tools and accessories.

The Ballard auction will be divided into two tracks:

Join us Wednesday, May 25, as IronPlanet marketplace Cat Auction Services holds a live, Unreserved Public Auction in Ballard, Utah. If you plan to attend in person, save time by registering early. You may also preview equipment onsite ahead of time. If you're planning to bid online, all items are now available to view on IronPlanet.com along with our IronClad Assurance inspection reports. Event details and location can be found here.

This regional auction is a one-owner complete dispersal sale for R.J. Taylor-Wyatt.View all 900+ items for sale and their inspection reports. Look for items specific to pipeline projects such as: Cat® Pipelayers from D7Gs to 561s, Komatsu Excavators from PC290LC-10s to a PC200LC, Tesmec Trenchers from a TRS1475 to a Vermeer T850, plus trucks and trailers, and hundreds of miscellaneous shop tools and accessories.

Welcome to Canadian Perspectives, a weekly IronPlanet blog post from the Great White North that will provide you with the inside scoop on the Canadian used equipment marketplace.

Every week, we’ll feature Canadian voices on things like fleet management, exchange rates and economic trends. We’ll sprinkle in distinctly Canadian phenomena like Maple Syrup, our urge to constantly apologize and a conflicting tendency to riot at hockey games.

Here are three more reasons you’ll want to tune in regularly to the Canadian Perspectives blog:

1. What happens in Canada has a direct impact on, say, Kentucky: So far, Cat Auction Services has held two live auctions in Edmonton, Alberta, stocked with lots of low-hour, late model used equipment. While the majority of the inventory stays in Canada, a bunch of it goes around the world or south to US bidders who know great deals are available north of the 49th. Our last Edmonton used equipment auction attracted bidders from 17 countries and 34 U.S. states.
2. We’ve got lots of great equipment for sale: Canada is a hotbed not just for hockey players, but for surplus heavy equipment thanks to our robust natural resource sector. It’s what happens when you’ve got just 35 million people living in a country that’s just a bit larger than the U.S. In world resource sector rankings for production, we rank 5th in natural gas and petroleum; first in potash and newsprint; second in softwood lumber, wood pulp and uranium; and third in aluminum, platinum, and hydroelectricity. So it’s really no accident, that we’re also home to the world’s largest Caterpillar dealer, Finning.
3. We’re easy to do business with: We’re a polite group and somewhat self-deprecating. We smiled when Conan O’Brien described us as “a giant piece of white chocolate that sits atop America.” And sorry to brag, but we get along well with our North American trading partners. So much so that the U.S. and Canada enjoy the world’s largest and most comprehensive trading relationship, which covers the cross-border shopping for used equipment that IronPlanet encourages.

Save the date! On May 25, IronPlanet is selling specialized pipeline equipment located in Ballard, Utah, and Goodland, Kansas. This is a one-owner complete dispersal sale for R.J. Taylor-Wyatt. View all 500+ items for sale and their inspection reports. Look for items specific to pipeline projects such as: Cat® Pipelayers from D7Gs to 561s, Komatsu Excavators from PC290LC-10s to a PC200LC, Tesmec Trenchers from a TRS1475 to a Vermeer T850, plus trucks and trailers, and hundreds of miscellaneous shop tools and accessories.

EVENT DETAILS 

Last month, IronPlanet held it's very first Cat Auction Services Unreserved Public Auction in the UK at Rockingham Motor Speedway. Hosted by Finning, this landmark auction featured high-quality Cat equipment and machinery from other dealers, rental customers and construction companies in the UK and from across the continent. Click here to view a video of the auction, including interviews with customers and the IronPlanet executive team. Interested in learning more about auctions in Europe? Preview featured items in IronPlanet's upcoming European auction on May 25, 2016.

Everything's bigger in Texas, including our Cat Auction Services onsite auction! Join us May 3, for a live, Unreserved Public Auction at The Speedway Club in Fort Worth, Texas!  If you plan to attend in person, save time by registering early. Event details and directions to the location can be found here.

This regional auction includes over 400 high-quality, late-model, low-hour pieces of equipment from Caterpillar, John Deere, Mack, Volvo, Blaw-Knox, Ford and more, including: articulated trucks, crawler tractors, excavators, motor scrapers, motor graders, flatbed, service and conventional trucks and much more. Hope to see you there!

Join us Tuesday, May 3, as IronPlanet marketplace Cat Auction Services holds a live, Unreserved Public Auction in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. This exciting auction features nearly 400 low hour, late-model items equipment from Caterpillar, John Deere, Volvo, Komatsu and much more. If you're attending in person, be sure to register ahead of time and preview equipment onsite from now until May 2nd. If you're planning to bid online, all items are now available to view on IronPlanet.com along with our IronClad Assurance inspection reports.