Ritchie Bros. to sell remaining 37 concrete pump trucks of Pumpco complete dispersal in Atlanta unreserved auction

June 15, 2009

Final opportunity for interested buyers to purchase from large inventory of concrete pump trucks ATLANTA, GA, June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE and TSX: RBA), the world's largest industrial auctioneer, is conducting an unreserved public equipment auction at the Company's permanent auction site in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, June 18, 2009 starting at 8:00 a.m. The auction will feature close to 1,300 items of equipment including 37 concrete pump trucks and other concrete equipment. The concrete pump trucks being sold in the Atlanta auction are the last 37 concrete pump trucks in a fleet of more than 160 concrete pump trucks that were sold in Ritchie Bros. unreserved auctions from May to June 2009 in Forth Worth, Orlando, Nashville and Houston as part of a complete dispersal of the former assets of Pumpco Inc., a concrete pumping service company with operations throughout the Southern and Southeastern United States. "Buyers in the market for one of these concrete pump trucks should take advantage of the large inventory we'll have in our Atlanta unreserved auction and buy now," said Darrin Hogeboom, Regional Manager, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers. "It's a great opportunity to bid on a large grouping of concrete pump trucks all in one place at one time."

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