Tri West Tractor, Inc.

The heavy equipment industry has changed a great deal in the last 25 years. Randy Cram started his business, Tri-West Tractor, Inc. back in 1980 and operated as a one-man show buying and selling used equipment. At the time, the "gray market" out of Europe was in full swing and Randy was mainly buying Caterpillar excavators and wheel loaders along with trenchers and other used equipment, bringing them to the west coast for sale. Over the next four years Randy started building a reputation for offering late model low-hour machines. He then moved his company from San Ramon to its current location in Livermore, California, which at the time was truly out in the middle of nowhere. "We were surrounded by vacant fields and the commute was a piece of cake", Randy remembers.