Ritchie Bros. sold more than $30 million of heavy equipment and trucks at an unreserved public auction in Grande Prairie, AB. The two-day unreserved public auction attracted 6,150+ bidders from 32 countries — a new record for the Grande Prairie site.

More than 2,000 equipment items and trucks were sold in the auction, including 165+ trailers, 125+ pickup trucks, 80+ truck tractors, 30+ excavators, 25+ crawler tractors, 20+ agricultural tractors and more.

“We had a great selection of late-model equipment and trucks, which attracted our largest crowd of bidders ever for a Grande Prairie auction—both onsite and online,” said Blair Gogowich, Regional Sales Manager, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers. “The record-breaking crowd helped us achieve strong pricing on both days of the auction. In particular, truck tractors, pickups, trailers, aggregate equipment and crawler pipelayers sold very well.”

Auction highlights included:

• Total Gross Auction Proceeds – $30+ million
• Amount sold to online bidders – $16+ million
• Unique bidders (onsite and online total) – 6,150+
• Unique online bidders – 3,350+
• Lots sold – 2,000+
• Number of sellers – 350+