Acme Lift, the world’s largest aerial work platform and telehandler re-rental company, has added a fleet manager and a rental coordinator to its staff as the company continues to add to its fleet of the largest aerial work platforms and telehandlers on the market.
Greg Richards, new fleet manager, will handle the purchasing and selling of Acme Lift’s machines and will be responsible for their analysis and care while they are in the company’s fleet. Richards has more than 30 years of experience in inventory control, sales, supervision, operations, marketing and purchasing.
New rental coordinator Chelsea Myrick will work with Acme Lift’s rental team and customers in putting the company’s fleet on rent. Myrick has been in and around the rental business most of her life.
Before joining Acme Lift, Richards had been corporate parts control inventory manager at Kirby-Smith Machinery in Oklahoma City since 2011. He worked at H&E Equipment Services in Phoenix from 1990 to 2011. He was corporate parts operations and inventory control manager from 2006 to 2011, branch parts manager from 2002 to 2006, and general parts manager from 1990 to 2002. He also worked at Empire Southwest in Arizona during the 1980s in various capacities.
Myrick comes to Acme Lift from BlueLine Rental, formerly Volvo Rents, where she worked from 2012 to 2014. She was a branch manager in the Denver metro area and a sales coordinator in Bakersfield, Calif. Before that Myrick worked in various rental and sales capacities with Papé Rents, Papé Machinery and Papé Material Handling, in Phoenix; Salinas, Calif.; and Eugene Ore.
“Greg and Chelsea bring a wealth of talent and experience to the Acme team,” said Mike Crouch, Acme Lift president and chief operating officer. “This will bring a higher level of attention to detail that our customers demand. I’m thrilled that they have decided to join us.”
Based in Mesa, Ariz., Acme Lift has the world’s largest selection of 80-, 120-, 135-, 150- and 180-foot boomlifts and 8,000- to 40,000-pound telehandlers for re-rent. Acme Lift is No. 60 on the RER 100.
