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Although it’s a few weeks yet before the official start of the 30th bauma, International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment, already the open-air site at the exhibition center in Munich looks like a giant building site. Exhibitors in the midst of setting up Excavators and [...]

It’s that time of the year!  Rock & Dirt is looking forward to another 3 busy days at The Mid America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY – March 21-23.  The Rock & Dirt booth is #60208 located in the West Wing Hall of the Kentucky Expo Center; please stop by and visit with our Territory [...]

Join us at the 2013 World of Asphalt March 19-21 in San Antonio, TX. Rock & Dirt and Rock & Dirt en Español will be demonstrating RockandDirt.com and distributing copies of both. The event is co-located with AGG1 Aggregates Academy & Expo in the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center.  Please stop by and visit with [...]

Rock & Dirt and NextTruck will be exhibiting at the 2013 Work Truck Show, March 6-8, in Indianapolis, IN at the Indiana Convention Center.   With over 500,000 square feet of Vocational Trucks and Equipment, the Work Truck Show is the Largest Work Truck Event in North America.  This premier industry event features the newest products, [...]

Caterpillar, in cooperation with its German dealer, Zeppelin Baumaschinen GmbH, will exhibit more than 70 machines under the theme “Committed to Your Success. All Day. Every Day.” Three different exhibit areas totalling over 12,000 square metres of space will showcase the latest Cat® machines, work tools and engines as well as the latest technology, solutions [...]

Powerscreen will be unveiling new product improvements at Bauma 2013. From 15th - 21st April 2013, Powerscreen will exhibit three machines on the Terex booth F7 · 710/711 - the XA400S Pre-Screen jaw crusher, the XH320X impact crusher and the Warrior 1400X Commenting on the line-up, Damian Power, Powerscreen Global Product Line Director said, “We [...]

Rock & Dirt will be marketing its advertisers and demonstrating RockandDirt.com and RDEspanol.com to the attendees of the World of Concrete, this February 5-8, 2013 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.   Stop by the Rock & Dirt booth in the Central Hall, booth #6503. Our territory managers, Barry Lowry and Zilphia Jernigan, [...]

Construction equipment buyers and sellers from around the world will converge in the Orlando, Florida area for the annual "Florida Auctions." This event is a great opportunity for the construction industry associates to network and for end-users to locate heavy equipment, work trucks & trailers, and attachments for sale for the upcoming construction season. The auctions kick-off [...]

Rock & Dirt will be attending and exhibiting at the 2013 AED Summit / Condex at the Las Vegas Hotel, January 15-17, 2013.  We encourage all dealers, manufacturers, and service providers to stop by our booth (# 423) for a visit, a RockandDirt.com demonstration of our newest features, and/or a fresh copy of Rock & [...]

Rock & Dirt's Holiday Sweepstakes will run December 5th - 28th, 2012. Two lucky Grand Prize Winners will receive their choice of a $100 Lowe's or $100 Home Depot Gift Card and a Rock & Dirt Prize Pack. Ten other lucky winners will receive a Rock & Dirt Cap. Entering is as easy as 1-2-3! [...]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers has announced that it will be holding its first unreserved public auction in China during Spring 2013. Although relatively new to the Chinese heavy equipment market, unreserved industrial auctions have been a quick and easy method for equipment buyers and sellers to conduct business on a global scale. And for more than [...]

bauma China has beaten its own record: Between November 27 and 30, 2012, over 2,600 exhibitors from 39 countries will be lining up for the start of this "International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Construction Vehicles and Equipment", taking place in the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). That figure represents an increase [...]