Trendlines: What explains the surge in sales of mini excavators in North America?
12 June 2023
Mini excavators have seen their popularity surge in North America. What has changed? Chris Sleight, managing director of Off-Highway Rsearch, explains.
In the 1990s, a good year for the mini excavator market was around 4000 machines sold across the whole of North America. That’s a tiny number if you consider that skid-steer loader sales were running at around 50,000 machines per year for most of that decade and there were also…