More than 4,000 bidders participated online and in person at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers’s multi-million dollar unreserved public equipment auction in Fort Worth, Texas, May 6 to 7.

Bidders came from 49 countries, including 49 U.S. states. Approximately 55 percent of the equipment was sold to out-of-state buyers, from as far away as Australia, Chile, Italy, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates. Online bidders purchased approximately 53 percent of the equipment sold (by dollar value).

More than 3,900 equipment items were sold in the auction, including 310-plus truck tractors, 290-plus trailers, 95 plus excavators, 45-plus flatbed trucks, 50 crawler tractors, 40-plus dump trucks, 40-plus winch tractors, 35 plus farm tractors, and much more.

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