Volvo Construction Equipment has opened a new Volvo Certified Used Center in Deptford, N.J., in partnership with Hoffman Equipment. The new facility will serve the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. It’s Volvo CE’s third Certified Used Center, and it follows the opening of centers in Nevada and Michigan over the past 16 months.
Volvo CE and its dealer network intend to provide customers with the best equipment lifecycle values in the construction industry. The Certified Used Centers enable Volvo CE to raise the value of machines into their second lives, when they enter the used market, by working with dealers to provide equipment to customers that has been thoroughly inspected and certified, offering an alternative to the auction market. All of the machines sold at the Used Centers are Volvo-owned machines that were previously under lease.
“With the addition of Hoffman Equipment, we’re able to expand the Volvo Used Center network to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic so that customers in these regions have easy access to our used inventory, and have assurance that the equipment they are purchasing from Volvo is at a price that reflects its true condition,” said Ryan Sherwood, vice president, retail development at Volvo CE. “Hoffman Equipment is a relatively new Volvo dealer, but the company has a long and proven record of technical service capabilities that makes it an ideal match for this program.”
At these centers, off-lease Volvo equipment undergoes a rigorous 140-plus point inspection from certified dealer technicians and is refurbished to OEM standards using genuine parts. All factory updates are completed, and the machines are packaged with a 6-month/1200-hour powertrain warranty to become Volvo Certified Used. The certified machines also come with a free one-year subscription to the ActiveCare Direct telematics service and they also qualify for Volvo’s lifetime frame warranty. Certified Used machines are eligible for financing through Volvo Financial Services.
“Our customers can be 100% certain that the final product coming out of our shop will be exactly as promised in the inspection report. The machines will have been tested, with software updates completed and components reconditioned using genuine OEM-approved,” said Tim Watters, president of Hoffman Equipment. “We have dedicated a tremendous amount of resources, including a super-talented team of technicians, to ensure that this equipment is delivered to the marketplace ready to work hard and reliably into a long and productive ‘second life.’”
The range of used equipment includes Volvo articulated haulers, excavators and wheel loaders. All Volvo Certified Used equipment can be viewed online, including the complete 140-plus point inspection reports, at volvousedce.com.
Volvo plans to open several more Certified Used Centers across North America in the future.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.