Awards for Dealers of Used Trucks for Sale

The Nominees for a prestigious American truck industry award have been announced. Five dealers of used trucks for sale across the United States have been shortlisted for the award, who will feature in the May issues of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine. The Truck Dealer of the Year awards in the United States will be held at the 48th annual ATD Convention and Expo in Phoenix, Arizona on April 16th.

The nominees are:

- Eric K. Jorgensen, president and CEO of JX Enterprises, Waukesha, Wisconsin.
- Richard Kane, owner of Grand Truck Center, San Antonio, Texas.
- Erick Miner, president of Central Illinois Trucks Group, Normal, Illinois.
- Richard Ryan, president and CEO of Carolina International Trucks, Columbia, South Carolina.
- Craig Young, president of Young Truck Sales, Canton, Ohio.

Nominees for the ATD/Heavy Duty Trucking Truck Dealer of the Year are evaluated based on several categories, including dealership performance, civic contributions and industry leadership. The winner and runner-up will be chosen by a panel of professors from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

The nation's commercial truck dealers will convene at the ATD convention, which runs April 15-18 at the Phoenix Convention Center. In addition to honoring the Truck Dealer of the Year, the winners of ATD Commercial Truck of the Year for new medium- and heavy-duty trucks including tipper trucks for sale sold in the United States will be announced April 17 at the convention.

Keynote speakers include ATD Chairman Kyle Treadway, Bill Graves, president of the American Trucking Associations, and Donald Broughton, senior research analyst and managing director at Avondale Partners. Top political and election analyst Charlie Cook will headline the first-ever Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Day on April 18. Dealers will also have an opportunity to meet face-to-face with their manufacturer executives at 12 franchise meetings and with suppliers on the expo floor. More than a dozen workshop sessions will be offered for dealers of used trucks for sale and their managers to learn ways to improve their business operations.

Hawk Plant Orders More JCB 3CX for Sale, plus Telehandlers and Quick-Hitches

Hire company Hawk Plant has purchased three new jcb 3cx for sale and ten Loadall jcb telehandlers from JCB dealer Gunn JCB. The plant firm also bought 12 Dualock quick-hitches from JCB for its recently purchased JS220 tracked excavators.

The new purchases add to the growing list of big orders from plat firms since the beginning of the year, signalling the long overdue recovery of the construction industry. The Dualock quick-hitches from JCB represent a leap forward in design and safety for coupling attachments to excavators and other construction equipment.

The Dualock is a double locking quick-hitch developed by JCB Attachments with independent locking of the front and rear pins. Designed for use with JCB tracked excavators from the JS130 through to the JS460, the hitch is compatible with both genuine JCB buckets and JCB scoop buckets on jcb 3cx for sale, along with the full range of JCB powered attachments. It uses the blocking bar system from the BUG coupler to secure the rear pin lock.

In addition, a new mechanical front lock secures the front pin independently of the rear. The face of the front locking mechanism is painted red and can easily be seen from the cab, ensuring the operator can be confident that the bucket is securely fastened before operating the machine. A series of on screen checks via the JCB JS Auto excavator Advanced Management System further ensures it is secured.

Hawk Plant director Paul Allman said: “Driven by a commitment to provide our customers with the safest equipment available, we are replacing our quick-hitches across the fleet. Customers must be totally confident in the equipment that they are operating. We are now providing them with levels of safety well in excess of those required by current standards.

“They are starting to demand dual-locking hitches whenever they hire excavators and we have every faith these new units will deliver. To date they have worked effectively with no issues whatsoever.”

Founded in 1972, Hawk Plant specialises in large bulk earthworks equipment and has a fleet of more than 1500 items.

New Quick Coupler Systems for Diggers for Sale

Manufacture of coupler technology Paladin Construction Group has unveiled two brand new quick coupler systems which will be displayed at the ConExpo 2011. The JRB PowerLatch and Bradco Mini-Excavator Coupler will allow users to quickly change attachments on most mini-excavators, wheel loaders, backhoe loaders and diggers for sale the company says.

Paladin have made quick coupler systems for over 25 years, and collaborated with Miller UK Ltd on its latest products, part of a range of eight attachment brands. These brands are: JRB, Bradco, Sweepster, CP, CustomWorks, FFC, Harley and McMillen. In addition to these brands, all JRB and Bradco couplers are compatible with most attachment and machine brands.

The company claims that its new JRB PowerLatch, designed by Miller, is one of the safest, most advanced quick couplers available for diggers and backhoe loaders. Engineered with the Automatic Blocking System (ABS), it features backup mechanical locks on both the front and rear attachment pins that are independent of the machine’s hydraulic locking and operating system. The ABS mechanical backup safety system automatically locks both pins so coupler engagement is maintained even if a hydraulic failure occurs, the company says.

The Bradco Mini-Excavator Coupler maintains the same Miller design features as the JRB PowerLatch and is available in two versions, featuring a compact design. The manual version uses a manual locking pin to maintain attachment engagement and worker safety on all mini-excavator models. For five-ton mini-excavators and above, the fully automatic version replaces the manual safety pin with hydraulic operation and includes hydraulic check valves that prevent attachment disengagement if hydraulic failure occurs.

In addition to these new couplers, Paladin Construction Group will also display its new CP Scoop Bucket and new Bradco Mini-Excavator Buckets for different kinds of diggers for sale at the ConExpo 2011 show.

Thwaites Dumpers confirmed to show at IRE

Warwickshire-based firm thwaites dumpers are among the big names confirmed to be at the International Rental Exhibition (IRE) in Amsterdam on the 7th - 9th of June. They will join a list of over 60 other suppliers who will be attending the exhibition, including Terex, Atlas Copco, Ditch Witch, Godwin Pumps, Haulotte Group, Hilti, Manitou, Result Group, Vermeer, Wacker Neuson, Wynne Systems and Yanmar CE.

Visitors can register in advance for the show online at the exhibition website: www.IREShow.com Registering in advance gives visitors free entry to the exhibition.

Exhibitors will show an enormous range of tools, equipment and technology, all targeted at rental companies, including compact earthmoving equipment, minidumpers, power tools/hand-held tools, pumps, generators, compressors and rental software systems.

Rental IT will be a definite theme at the show, with more than 10 companies demonstrating rental software or rental IT technology. For an up-to-date list of the exhibitors, see the show website.

In addition to the trade exhibition, visitors can register to attend the European Rental Association's (ERA) annual convention, which takes place at the same venue on the same three days. Prices for registration, and the full programme, can be found on the ERA's website: www.erarental.org

The conference - which is open to both ERA members and non-members - includes seminars, expert presentations and workshops covering almost every aspect of the rental market.

"The convention is open to everyone, and everyone can find something of value", said Gérard Déprez, president of the ERA, "It is the ideal opportunity to take the temperature of the rental market as it comes out of the crisis: what is new; what has changed."

Mr Déprez emphasised the benefits to all rental companies - not just ERA members - of attending the convention and the IRE show. "My advice is not to come alone - bring colleagues with you. Afterwards you can discuss the convention with your colleagues, share ideas and get a different point of view."

Hanix Launch New 1.5 tonne Mini Diggers

Manufacturer Hanix Europe have announced the launch of two new mini diggers. The new D Series models, the H16D and H17D, are both 1.5 tonne machines that will replace the H15B-2 and H15B Plus-2 vehicles. Hanix also announced the expansion of its dealer network in Brazil, France and Saudi Arabia.

The new D Series diggers have restyled aesthetics, and have been made more compact to reduce tail swing, from 1.44 metres to 1.07 metres. All new Kubota D782 engines will power the new mini diggers for sale, replacing the Mitsubishi engines seen in older models. Hanix said that Kubota engines will feature in all new machines from their range.

Digging depth on the H16D increases by almost 150 mm to 2295 mm on the standard boom, and maximum digging power is also higher, by around 3% at 14.8 kN. Both the 16 and 17 are slightly heavier than their predecessors, up around 100 kg, with weights of 1650 kg and 1700 kg (cab version with rubber tracks), respectively.

Other new features on the new Hanix mini diggers include proportional controls; a shifting of the boom cylinder from below to above the boom to offer better protection; and variable output piston pumps replacing the gear pumps used previously, which Hanix says better directs power to where it is needed.

Paul Hyslop, sales director of Manchester, UK-based Hanix Europe, acknowledged that the company was playing catch-up in this class; "The old models were still good technically, but with the new models we have brought them up to speed to remain competitive in the market. We tried to target the best machines in the class and be at least as good as them."

Meanwhile, Hanix Europe is developing its international sales infrastructure and dealer network. It is soon to have a stock of mini diggers for sale in France, with a new Hanix facility in Bordeaux that it will rent from dealer TP Materiels.

Volvo Trucks' January Results Promising

Swedish truck manufacturer volvo trucks has announced results for January indicating a promising outlook for 2011. The company's published figures revealed a 62 per cent increase in sales in January, resulting in 15,277 trucks sold. The news adds weight to the hope of a recovery for the commercial truck market htis year.

The highly cyclical heavy-duty truck market has picked up strongly in recent quarters with growth spreading out of emerging markets in Asia and Latin America to mature markets on both sides of the Atlantic.

Volvo, which also sells used volvo trucks and trucks under the Eicher, Mack, Renault, and UD Trucks brands, said unit shipments rose 78 percent in Europe, its biggest market, while they were up 83 percent in North America. In Asia, further down the road to recovery than markets on either side of the north Atlantic, deliveries rose 51 percent.

"It is pretty much exactly as expected and means they held roughly the same production rate in January as they had in December," Handelsbanken analyst Hampus Engellau said.

"This confirms that we are seeing a cyclical recovery in North America, but also that Europe is really stronger than anticipated."

Volvo shares opened up 0.5 percent to 111.5 crowns, to narrowly outpace a 0.1 percent gain in the DJ Stoxx autos sector index shares in rivals Scania and MAN rose 0.6 percent.

The group, second globally to German group Daimler, earlier this month raised its demand outlook, saying it expected markets to grow to about 220,000 units in both Europe and North America, implying double-digit growth.

Gothenburg-based volvo trucks, which also manufactures buses, construction equipment and engines, has seen earnings recover on the back of the strong demand but also encountered production problems as it tries to raise output.

Volvo's deliveries shifted gear toward the end of last year with year-on-year increases of about 60 percent as demand began reviving in North America, the market hardest hit by the downturn in the wake of the global financial crisis.

New Bomag Tandem Roller

The American owned subsidiary of German road construction giant bomag, BOMAG Americas Inc., will launch its BW 900-50 at the upcoming 2011 Rental Show and 2011 CONEXPO Show for construction equipment for sale in Las Vegas. This newest generation 1-1.5 ton ride on roller is powered with the latest HONDA GX630 gasoline engine. With a working width of 35.4 in (900 mm) and an overall width of 37.8 in (961 mm) the machine is flexible for both small compaction applications and larger commercial jobsites. A compact design allows the user full operation advantages in restricted areas with tight space clearances.

Powerful front drum vibration delivers 3395 lbs (15,1 kN), 4200 vpm (70 Hz) and 0.020 in (0,5 mm) amplitude to ensure the required compaction is met for asphalt as well as sub-base materials. A large 36 gal (137 ltr) water tank and a pressurized water sprinkler system with interval flow timer perfectly suit the BW 900-50 for use on a variety of asphalt applications. The water system is filtered for protection and incorporates an easy drain function for time savings.

Two flexible scrapers per drum, an articulating and oscillating centre joint, and chamfered edge drums prevent surface marks on asphalt. Individual indicator lights and an hour meter clearly display all main roller functions to the operator. Quick and simple maintenance is aided by accessible fluid drain ports.

Safe and easy loading and unloading is possible with a single central lifting point or four corner lifting points. Two additional large tie down points located at the front and back of the machine secure the machine while transporting. For loading and driving on slopes, the mechanical parking brake ensures safe operation. The bomag BW 900-50 is equipped standard with essential safety features like the foldable ROPS, retractable seat belt, back-up alarm, and an emergency stop button. A lockable engine hood and the dash board with integrated theft control protect the roller against vandalism.

Working lights are an available option to assist with safe night operation.