Earthmoving plant is quoted less often than anything else on the platform, which makes the quote count the most useful column in the table.
Dozers, loaders and graders move the most material for the money, and they are also the machines whose prices contractors guess at most. Below is what suppliers actually quoted, with an honest note about where the data runs out.
In short
- The grader is the steadiest figure here: 23,250-27,000 SAR a month, and it is quoted more often than anything else here.
- Dozer pricing is wide and thin. A D9 spans 25,000-50,000 on very few quotes; the D10 row sits below the D8 row on fewer still.
- Wheel loaders barely move with size: 2.5, 3 and 5 m³ all sit around 15,000-18,500.
- Transport is heavy here. A D8 or a 10 m³ loader carries about 5,500 SAR of mobilisation each way.
What earthmoving plant rents for
Riyadh, monthly, middle half of quotes:
| Machine | Per month, SAR | How often quoted |
|---|---|---|
| Motor grader, 12-14 ft | 23,250-27,000 | Often quoted |
| Wheel loader, 5 m³ | 15,000-18,000 | Often quoted |
| Wheel loader, 2.5 m³ | 15,000-18,000 | Often quoted |
| Wheel loader, 3 m³ | 16,000-18,500 | Some quotes |
| Dozer, D9 (50 t) | 25,000-50,000 | Some quotes |
| Dozer, D8 (40 t) | 36,250-44,500 | Some quotes |
| Wheel loader, 10 m³ | 15,000-24,000 | Some quotes |
| Dozer, 22 t | 25,000 | Some quotes |
Where our own data stops being reliable
Two rows should stop you. The D9 spans 25,000 to 50,000: double, for the same nominal machine, on a handful of quotes. And the D10, the largest dozer in the set, was quoted at 20,000 twice, which is below the D8. Neither is a market rate; both are small samples of very different jobs. At the top of the dozer range you should be collecting quotes, not reading tables: including ours.
Wheel loaders are flatter than you expect
2.5, 3 and 5 m³ all land between about 15,000 and 18,500 a month. Bucket size is not the price driver contractors assume it is; availability and the operator arrangement matter more. Note the 10 m³ row: only 12% of those quotes included an operator, against 54% at 5 m³.
Transport, and why it decides more here than elsewhere
Median one-way mobilisation:
| Machine | Mobilisation, one way (median) |
|---|---|
| Skid steer loader | 350 SAR |
| Wheel loader, 5 m³ | 1,000 SAR |
| Motor grader | 1,000 SAR |
| Wheel loader, 2.5 m³ | 1,500 SAR |
| Dozer, D8 | 5,500 SAR |
| Wheel loader, 10 m³ | 5,500 SAR |
Charged again on the way out. On a one-month hire of a D8, transport both ways is roughly a quarter of the rental, which is why a yard fifty kilometres closer can beat a cheaper rate from further away, and why "price per month" on its own tells you very little.
The small end: skid steers
Skid steer loaders were quoted by the day rather than the month (about 400-500 SAR a day on seven quotes) with mobilisation around 350. For short site-clearance and yard work that is a different commercial shape from everything above it.
Getting a real number for earthmoving
- Say what you are moving. Material, volume and haul distance change the machine before they change the price.
- Name the model class you will accept (D8, D9) and whether an equivalent from another maker is acceptable. This is where vague requests get expensive.
- Ask for transport as a number, both ways. On this plant it is a budget line, not a rounding error.
- Settle the operator. It varies enormously here: 12% of 10 m³ loader quotes include one, against 73% of graders.
- Collect several quotes on the big dozers. Our own table is the argument for it.
Per-machine figures are on the rental rates page; heavy classes are listed under heavy equipment.
Source: Moedatech platform data. The published ranges rest on 13,820+ supplier quotes given on the platform between April and August 2026. Figures on this page are Riyadh unless stated, in Saudi riyals, excluding VAT. A quote count in a table is the number of offers received for that one machine size in that period; it is not a measure of how many suppliers or machines are on the platform, which the company publishes separately. Operator share and mobilisation are medians across the quotes for that size, and a price range is the middle half of them, so a quarter of offers sit below it and a quarter above.
