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.  ...

   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...

    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...

    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...

          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...

    Road Machinery & Supplies Co. (RMS) is expanding the capabilities of its Centerville, Minnesota location, strengthening its ability to serve customers across the Twin Cities northern metro area. The Centerville facility, which has operated as part of RMS’ Ruffridge Johnson division, is transitioning into a full-service RMS branch that will provide new, used, and rental equipment, service, and parts for all of RMS’ equipment lines, including brands like Komatsu, Astec, BOMAG, LeeBoy, SENNEBOGEN, Terramac, NPK, Genesis, JLG in addition to the brands that have historically been supported by Ruffridge Johnson like Masaba, Cedarrapids, and Ecoverse.   The Centerville location offers convenient access for customers based in or supporting jobsites across the northern metro area. The facility will stock a broad range of parts inventory and is integrated with RMS’ shuttle system, allowing for next-day parts availability on many items stocked at other branch locatio...