DOT to hold auction here next Wednesday

The North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT) Equipment and Inventory Control Unit and several NCDOT divisions are planning a surplus inventory auction at the Alleghany Fairgrounds on U.S .21 just north of Sparta next Wednesday, Sept. 12.

Included are items from Division 11, of which Alleghany is part, as well as divisions 9, 10 and 12.

The auction will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until the last item is sold.

An auction bidder sign up and item preview will be held next Tuesday, Sept. 11, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m at the fairgrounds. Items will also be available for preview on the day of the auction from 8 a.m. until 9 a.m.

NCDOT Statewide Plant Maintenance Manager Mark Walker said this is the first time that this auction has been held in Sparta to the best of his knowledge. The auctions are usually held four times per year across the state and the locations are changed each time.

"Basically we go to different areas across the state,” he said. "The state is broken off into different divisions and we try to alternate divisions. We usually have three to four auctions per year.”

Walker noted that the auctions typically draw between 200 and 500 people, depending upon the location and the items to be sold.

Items to be sold will consist of all types of surplus DOT equipment from all over the Northwest North Carolina. Motor graders, excavators, trucks, backhoes and equipment of all types will be sold, said Walker.

The DOT's equipment headquarters has a replacement policy for all state equipment, said Walker.

 

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