More than 1,600 bidders participated online and in person at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers’ multi-million dollar unreserved public equipment auction in Atlanta on Nov. 29.

Bidders came from 45 countries, including 47 U.S. states. More than 66 percent of the equipment was sold to out-of-state buyers, from as far away as Austria, Colombia, Hong Kong and Italy. Online bidders purchased more than 30 percent of the equipment sold (by dollar value).

In total, more than 1,100 equipment lots were sold in the auction, including loader backhoes, hydraulic excavators, crawler tractors, multi-terrain loaders, wheel loaders, articulated dump trucks, truck tractors and more.