If you believe everything is bigger in Texas, than it should come as no surprise that the state also needs the most road construction equipment. At 68 buyers during the third quarter of 2014, Texas construction companies financed the most road construction equipment in the United States.
The numbers are according to an analysis of Equipment Data Associates data segmenting out companies likely to be engaged in road construction.
The top 10 states in the number of buyers for both new and used road construction equipment is as follows:
1: Texas (68 buyers)
2: Florida (58)
3: North Carolina (52)
4: California (48)
5: Georgia (35)
6: Minnesota and Pennsylvania (tied at 32)
7: South Carolina and New Jersey (tied at 29)
8: Missouri (28)
9. New York (26)
10: Colorado (24)
Excavators led the way for highway and bridge construction companies with 347 financed purchases during Q3. That’s 21 percent of all equipment purchased. In addition, 200 wheel loaders were purchased (12 percent of the total), 125 compact track loaders (8 percent), 121 double drum vibratory rollers (7.6 percent), and 101 crawler dozers (6.9 percent).
All in all, 1,625 road construction units were financed during Q3. That’s down 10 percent from Q3 of 2013 when 1,813 units were purchased. The amount of buyers from Q3 2013 (874) decreased by 5 percent during the same quarter of 2014 (828).
Out of all purchases, 922 units were new equipment, including 197 excavators (21 percent), 136 wheel loaders (15 percent) and 97 compact track loaders (10 percent).
