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RMS Tritec hosts inaugural Lunch and Learn

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Earlier this month RMS Tritec put on its first Lunch and Learn in Hibbing, Minn., for customers to showcase its partnership with Hardox® . Nearly 40 customers and team members participated in the event and worked with RMS Tritec and Hardox® sales and engineering experts to learn about the grade-wear products available and familiarize themselves with the resources they have available as customers. “This was a great collaboration between SSAB  Hardox® and RMS Tritec. Our goal was to demonstrate that we offer solutions, not a commodity, and we want to be part of their process early in the design and selection phase ,” said RMS Tritec General Manager Chad Buus. “A secondary benefit was to introduce the RMS Tritec team to the Hardox® sales and engineering support staff to ensure we are familiar with - and utilize - the resources we have as the only Hardox® Wearparts Center in Minnesota.” In addition to the information sessions, attendees were treated to a catered lunch fro...
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Advanced technology fuels RP Constructors' expansion across country

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       Completing a construction project requires many things, but the two main components are the job plans created by engineers and the workers who carry them out.   Even the most thorough plans can be derailed once ground is broken. When this happens, resolving it requires a massive amount of data and communication between the two parties, resulting in lost time, costly changes and project stakeholder frustration.   But what if both the engineers and the field professionals had the same training, communication style and — most importantly — boss?   RP Constructors LLC answered that question: successful and efficient project completion.   In 2009, Callaghan LLC started as an engineering firm in Sioux City, Iowa, that focused on designing plans for civil construction projects. In 2014, it expanded into the field when it purchased a portion of a local construction company and started RP Constructors. This move enable...
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RMS celebrates 100th anniversary

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       Road Machinery & Supplies Co. rang in its 100th anniversary this spring and summer with a series of celebrations recognizing employees, customers, manufacturers and partners who have contributed to the company’s century in business.   “This is a significant milestone, and we are thankful and appreciative to all of the customers, manufacturers and employees — past and current — who were able to come out and help us celebrate our anniversary,” said Mike Sill II, CEO and third-generation owner of RMS.    Anniversary events were held throughout RMS’ footprint, including in Dallas, Texas; Des Moines, Iowa; Negaunee, Mich.; Virginia, Minn.; and Eagan, Minn. With its centralized location among the RMS territory, the Eagan gathering served as the headlining celebration. Held at the TCO Performance Center and Minnesota Vikings Museum, the event brought together more than 250 guests to celebrate the centennial milestone.  ...
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Forcier named Sales Manager for Central and Southern Minnesota

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   Jake Forcier has been promoted to Sales Manager for the central and southern Minnesota operations. In this role, Jake will lead the Territory Managers and drive sales performance across this market. Jake brings a decade of construction equipment dealership experience to this role, built entirely on the distribution side of the industry. He joined RMS in June 2025 as a Territory Manager working out of the Byron branch, responsible for the sales and rental of every line of construction equipment RMS represents, including Komatsu. "In the time Jake has been here, he has built his territory on trust, product knowledge, and industry expertise, while managing his own time and pulling in the internal teams needed to get customers taken care of," said Olson. Before RMS, Jake spent eight years with Ziegler CAT in Rochester. He started as an Inside Sales Representative in 2015, running the full inside sales process from lead qualification through demo...
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Stolee promoted to Sales Manager for Iowa and Illinois

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    Bryan Stolee will be the Sales Manager overseeing the Iowa and Illinois branches. In this role he will lead the Territory Managers and sales efforts throughout the region. Bryan brings more than 30 years of territory sales experience to this position, the last decade of it with RMS. Since joining the company in April 2016 as a Territory Manager in East Moline, he has sold and supported the full construction equipment line: dozers, excavators, wheel loaders, crushers, screen plants, cement equipment, and asphalt paving equipment. "He has done it with contractors, quarries, municipalities, and material handling operations across the region. He has been recognized with the Road Machinery & Supplies Co. President’s Award and for both Top Market Share and Top Revenue Generation, and he has consistently expanded market presence through consultative, solution-based selling rather than price," said Vice President, CE Sales Dan Olson. "Bryan has the market knowled...
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Dan Olson promoted to Vice President of Construction Equipment

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    Road Machinery & Supplies Co. has announced that Dan Olson has been promoted to the position of Vice President of Construction Equipment Sales. Olson was previously the Sales Manager, Savage, and he replaces the position held by Ben Schmidtlein, who served as Vice President of Sales. Olson’s slight but meaningful title change for this role underscores RMS’ commitment to driving greater focus on all of its construction equipment business. In this new capacity, he will report directly to President Russell Sheaffer.      Olson has spent his entire career in sales, first as a sales representative and later growing into various sales leadership roles including two at RMS.    “Since joining the company Dan has demonstrated a strong understanding of our market and has exemplified outstanding leadership and customer relationship skills,” said Sheaffer.   Effective immediately, Olson will be responsible for managing the constru...
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Dave Hosch promoted to Vice President of Aggregate

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          Road Machinery & Supplies Co. (RMS) announced that Dave Hosch has been promoted from General Manager of Aggregate to Vice President of Aggregate. In this role, Dave will continue to be responsible for sales, rentals, and technical support of our crushing, screening, and environmental product lines, such as Astec, Masaba, Epiroc, CDE, Sandvik, Ecoverse, Doppstadt, and more throughout Iowa, Minnesota and portions of Nebraska and South Dakota.   “Since assuming the responsibility for managing the merged Ruffridge Johnson and RMS aggregate sales teams last fall, Dave has proven to be a very capable leader of the much larger organization.  Elevating him to the level of vice president underscores our confidence in his leadership,” said President Russell Sheaffer.   He will continue to lead the team of Aggregate Sales Specialists and Aggregate Support Specialists, as well as Pit and Quarry Supplies.   Dave joined RMS in 202...
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