Profiles (Interviews)
Skidding Obstacles
What is your company doing to make skid steers more eco-friendly?...
Cooperative Service Training
The need for qualified service technicians is well documented in the construction and rental industries....
No Longer a Secret
Despite having more than $4.5 billion in worldwide sales in 2006, JCB has been called the best-kept secret in the United States. CEO John Patterson started...
Postcards from Las Vegas
Growing Global Genie Industries discusses its plans for international growth. Tim Ford joined Redmond, Wash.-based Genie Industries a year and a half...
Powering Up
Generator manufactures discuss their outlooks on the rental market, technologies and the current pace of 2008....
Postcards from Las Vegas
Never Be Satisfied Not resting on its laurels, 63-year-old JCB launches spate of new products at ConExpo. One of the mottos of Mr. JCB, Joseph Cyril Bamford,...
Semi-Pumped for '08
RER: What types of new technologies, enhancements and features are on the horizon for the next generations of pump models? Thompson: Considering our increased...
Investments in Peoples' Dreams
It took the dedication of four lifelong New Orleans residents and one of the world's fastest-growing equipment manufacturers, but equipment rental is...
Cream of the Kropp
If Dodge hadn't gotten to it first, the slogan Grab Life By the Horns could easily be the perfect motto for aerial lift specialist Kropp Equipment. The...
Expansion Expedites Rentals
In order to succeed in any business, one needs to address the current situation and ask the question: What can I do to increase revenue while also meeting...
A regional model that works
During the consolidation era of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the popular wisdom was that the age of the regional rental company had passed and that...
Not A Cookie Cutter
If you drive around the great state of Texas and there's a lot of driving to be done in a state that covers more than 266,000 square miles you can't avoid...