Rb Global Inc.

Rb Global runs fixed physical yards where heavy construction equipment is staged for inspection before each auction, letting buyers walk the machines and hear the engines run before committing to six-figure purchases. That inspection requirement pulls consigners, floor bidders, and remote online participants into the same yard on the same calendar date, so the live auctioneer's hammer governs both the people standing in the yard and the bidders watching a screen — and the online platform is only credible because the physical inspection already happened. Because each additional machine consigned needs its own ground space and heavy equipment cannot be stacked, the Burnaby yard's acreage sets a hard ceiling on how many machines can move through any single sale, and finding land suitable for displaying hundreds of excavators and articulated trucks is slow and expensive. Consigners and buyers have built their procurement and liquidation schedules around specific auction dates over years of repeated cycles, so if the Burnaby yard lost its operating access, those calendar habits would dissolve along with it — the inspection anchor disappears, online bidders have no live event to join, and the concentrated buyer network that produces competitive prices collapses.