Close to 1,800 bidders participated online or in person at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers’ multi-million dollar unreserved public equipment auction in Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 17.

Bidders came from 47 countries, including 49 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces. More than 60 percent of the equipment was sold to buyers outside the state, from as far away as Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Australia, India and the United Arab Emirates. Online bidders purchased approximately 26 percent of the equipment sold.

The auction featured more than 1,700 equipment items and trucks, including 55 wheel loaders, 45 loader backhoes, 40 crawler tractors, 20 hydraulic excavators, 15 motorgraders, 10 articulated dump trucks and 20 truck tractors.

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