Skid steer or compact track loader? The answer depends on several factors — not the least of which is cost — but at the end of the day, there’s room for both work horses in any stable.
Chris Sleight, managing director of Off-Highway Research, says that skid steers’ popularity peaked in the mid-2000s, when sales were around 65,000 units per year.Since then, compact track loaders (CTL) have taken the lead, and last year the market was about 55,000 to 65,000 units, compared to approximately 30,000 to 35,000 for skid steers.But that shift has plateaued, and although their popularity has declined, skid-steer loaders
