Volvo Rents Opens New Chicago Branch

June 11, 2004
Volvo Construction Equipment Rents last week announced the opening of a new independently owned Volvo CE Rents equipment rental center in Woodstock, Ill., near Chicago. ACF Equipment opened its first Volvo CE Rents center in the Chicago metropolitan ...

Volvo Construction Equipment Rents last week announced the opening of a new independently owned Volvo CE Rents equipment rental center in Woodstock, Ill., near Chicago.

ACF Equipment opened its first Volvo CE Rents center in the Chicago metropolitan area. Owned by Michael Garrard, the new Woodstock equipment rental center is an independently owned and operated Volvo Construction Equipment Rents franchise within the company’s rental program. The new Volvo CE Rents will carry, in addition to Volvo construction equipment, a comprehensive line of essential equipment and tools for the construction, commercial, industrial and homeowner markets. Principal Volvo products for the rental franchises include compact excavators and wheel loaders and backhoe and skid steer loaders.

Volvo CE Rents began its equipment rental franchise initiative in 2001. The company now has equipment rental centers open in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, California, Tennessee, Ohio, South Carolina, Louisiana, New York, Minnesota, Arkansas, New Jersey, Alabama, Kentucky, Illinois, Maryland and Washington.

Additional rental centers are now under contract for development in three Mississippi markets – Hattiesburg, Jackson, and Gulfport-Biloxi – the first of which will open in the near future. In addition to these franchises, the company has franchise agreements signed with other North America business interests seeking independently owned and operated franchise opportunities in the equipment rental business.

Asheville, N.C.-based Volvo Rents is No. 19 on the RER 100.