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Heavy equipment owners are used to thinking about machine availability, financing, fuel, and resale. The harder constraint in 2026 may be simpler: who is qualified to keep the iron working.
Hitachi Construction Machinery will become LANDCROS in April 2027. The name change is easy to dismiss, but the real test is whether dealers can turn the brand shift into better uptime, support, and connected-service value.
Alta Equipment Group has built one of the bigger dealer platforms in North America by stacking local equipment businesses into a broader sales, rental, parts, and service network. The interesting part is not the acquisition count. It is what happens after the logos get folded into one operating model.
Private equity is buying up equipment dealers and rental houses at a record pace. The industry is reorganizing around scale, and contractors are about to feel the effects.
While national dealer consolidation grabs headlines, this Virginia-based Volvo and Takeuchi distributor has opened two new branches in under a year and shows no signs of slowing down.
From a single Oklahoma City location selling used equipment in 1983 to a 12-branch operation representing over 30 manufacturers across six states, Kirby-Smith Machinery has become one of the most respected heavy equipment dealers in the central United States.