Sizing up the Market For Compact Wheel Loaders

摘要

In the past year, list prices for new compact wheel loaders and average costs to put those machines to work have slipped . . . with one exception. According to Equip-mentWatch.com, list prices for the largest models, those in the 80- to 99-horsepower and 100- to 109-horsepower ranges, have increased by 8.2 and 8.6 percent, respectively, although hourly rates to work those machines have, as with all compact wheel loaders, actually gone down. Model upgrades could explain part of the bucking of the economic-spiral trend, but there may just be more at play here with the largest of the compacts. Actually, it may just be that - the size of the machines - that is weighing heavily on the equation.