Join our auction this week on Thursday, March 10.  Over 1000 items including 8 exceptionally maintained sleepers direct from Walmart, including trucks from Freightliner, International ProStar and Peterbilt. Our Walmart inventory also includes 3 Ottowa Spotter trucks. Look for 4 dump trucks, 19 articulating boom lifts, wheel loaders, scrapers, cranes and much more!  Read inspection reports, match available machines against your needs, and place your bids now. 

Check out some interesting headlines around the industry this week.

Global Construction Equipment Rental Market to Exceed  $110 Billion by 2019 According to Technavio (Business Wire)

"According to Technavio’s latest report, the global construction equipment rental market is expected to exceed USD 110 billion by 2019 growing at a CAGR of over 7% during the forecast period." Read more

Join us on Thursday March 3, for our weekly auction featuring nearly 1000 items.  Highlights this week include 26 articulating boom lifts, 40 compactors, 15 backhoe loaders, 76 scissor lifts and much 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. 

Save the date! April 20, 2016. IronPlanet  will host its first live Unreserved Public Auction in the UK at Rockingham Motor Speedway! Hosted by Finning, this landmark auction will feature high-quality Cat equipment and machinery from other dealers, rental customers and construction companies in the UK and from across the continent. Follow us at#IPRockingham16.  Click here if you'd like to learn more about this exciting announcement!

‘We are delighted to announce our first Cat Auction Services live on-site unreserved auction in Europe and the opportunity to work closely with Finning, the world’s largest Caterpillar dealer,’ said Felipe Fernández-Urrutia Massó, Vice President of European Sales at IronPlanet. ‘We look forward to bringing the best in used Cat equipment to buyers in the UK and globally in our Rockingham sale.

Rockingham in Corby, Northamptonshire, is home to the Rockingham Motor Speedway. It is the fastest banked oval racing circuit in Europe, with the unbeaten record for the 1.5 mile lap set at 24.719 seconds by Tony Kanaan in a Ford/Lola Champ car in 2001 – that’s an average speed of 215.397mph.

You can register here, and make sure you are approved to bid by clicking here.

Look for featured items and event highlights coming in the next few weeks!  Rockingham, here we come!

Check out some interesting headlines around the heavy equipment and construction industry this week.

Top Supply Chain and Logistics News (Wall Street Journal)
"One of South Korea’s top shipping companies is begging for itslife. Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., which along with the larger Hanjin Shipping Co. handles most of Korea’s exports, asked owners of its chartered fleet to cut a break on rates, the WSJ’s Costas Paris reports. Creditors reportedly want the company to reduce its more than $1.5 billion in charter costs by 30% before agreeing to debt restructuring. The sources of HMM’s distress are familiar: not enough demand, and too many ships on the water. That HMM says it needs such a deep reduction in charter rates just to stay in business is a sign that the company expects the shipping industry’s woes to be deep and long-lasting." Read more

Check out some interesting global headlines around the industry this week.

 Chinese firm in £2.5bn bid for heavy equipment giant Terex (Belfast Telegraph)
"The Chinese construction company Zoomlion has confirmed its offer for Terex Corporation, which employs 1,000 people in Co Tyrone, saying the combination of the two would create a firm with a "global footprint".  Read more

Join us Thursday and Friday, February 25 and 26 for our two-day auction. Over 2000 items across both days including 42 articulating boom lifts, 28 backhoe loaders, 33 compact track loaders, 28 crawler tractors, 25 flatbed trucks, five exceptionally well-maintained Wal-Mart trucks and much more! Preview all auction items now and place your priority bid here.

Check out some interesting headlines around the industry this week.

Caterpillar Names a Cuba Distributor for its Equipment (Miami Herald)
"Caterpillar Inc., the heavy equipment manufacturer based in Peoria, Illinois, said Wednesday that it has named a Puerto Rican company to be its Cat dealer in Cuba in preparation for the day when the embargo is lifted".  Read more

Going, going, GONE!  Join us today for the FINAL day of our Largest Unreserved Public Auction Ever! Today's featured items include UTV's, Pickup Trucks, Utility Trucks, Service Trucks, Flatbed Trucks, Boom Trucks, Mixer Trucks, Dump Trucks, Truck Tractors, Trailers, Support Equipment and Parts & Attachments. Visit us onsite in Orlando at 5000 Oren Brown Road, Kissimmee or bid online here. #IPOrlandoandBeyond2016.

Join us today for Day FOUR of our largest Unreserved Public Auction Ever! Today's featured items include Scrapers, Wheel Loaders, Water Wagons, Fuel & Lube Trucks, Water Trucks and our final day of Humvee. Today, we will donate a portion of the sale one final Humvee to benefit the Fisher House Foundation, a charity that supports a network of comfort homes where military and veterans' families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment.  And, don't forget to join us on Twitter for your chance to win cool IronPlanet Gear! Visit us in Orlando at 5000 Oren Brown Road, Kissimmee or bid online here. #IPOrlandoandBeyond2016.