Equipment Research

How used iron actually changes hands in America.

An independent study of the used heavy equipment market — the deals, the costs, and the risks nobody publishes.

Billions of dollars in excavators, dozers, loaders, and trucks move every year on handshakes, wire transfers, and photographs taken from the good side. We document how that market really works — where buyers find machines, how they check them out, what a deal actually costs, and where people get burned.

Our data comes from the people doing the buying and selling: contractors, fleet owners, farms and ranches, dealers, and individual owners.

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