Who'd Be A ...earth-moving Equipment Salesman?

The Age

Saturday July 19, 2008

David Wilson

Sean Hoare is-and he has been selling machinery around the world."

I started in the earth-moving and mining industry about 35 years ago. I worked as an operator and then moved into management.

Now I buy, sell or hire earth-moving equipment wherever I can. I mean equipment like bulldozers, front-end loaders, excavators and mining-industry trucks."

Most of it's worth over a million bucks.

Some of its worth up to $5 million. We supply low-hour used gear to our clients. Many of them have problems getting new gear because there is not enough coming off the assembly lines. There's a shortage of this sort of equipment all over the world, and Australia is no different."

I've travelled to Japan, Europe, the States, north Africa-there is a huge trade in the ... Middle East."

I've really never thought about doing anything else. It's a reasonably well-paid industry. Everything is buoyant at the moment," he says. -- DAVID WILSON splendour1@bigpond.com.au

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