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Should You Rebuild a Hot Pit Loader or Buy New?
Running a Caterpillar loader for only one life wastes a lot of money. A loader like this brand new off the assembly line is about a $1.3 million investment, and a certified rebuild costs a fraction of that and runs the machine a second life. Bulk does those rebuilds, and because a rebuilt machine costs far less than sourcing a new one, that value gets passed to the customer in the monthly rate.
Why Is Running a Loader Only One Life a Waste?
Take a Caterpillar loader that has been with a customer for several years and lived its life. Scrapping it or replacing it at that point leaves a lot of money on the table, because that machine is ready for a certified rebuild. Bulk Equipment Corp., a brand-independent heavy equipment uptime partner serving heavy industry across the Midwest and Southeast, does those rebuilds in-house.
What Does a New Loader Cost Compared to a Certified Rebuild?
A loader like this, brand new off the assembly line, is roughly a $1.3 million investment today. A certified rebuild comes in at a fraction of that cost and puts the machine back to work for a second life, which is where the value sits: the same class of machine doing the same job, without the new-machine price.
How Does a Rebuild Change the Monthly Rate?
That value gets passed along to the customer. If Bulk has to go out and buy a new loader to put on a site, the monthly rate reflects a new-machine cost. If there is a machine available for rebuild instead, the rate is not the same, because the rebuilt loader cost a fraction of new to put into service.
Rebuilt machines on a monthly rate are one of the four ways to work with Bulk.
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