Interviews

Frank Nerenhausen, veteran Oshkosh Corp. executive, was named president of JLG Industries Aug. 1, while continuing as executive vice president of Oshkosh. In this exclusive interview with RER, he talks about how learning the aerial industry, future product development, and how the market is looking....More

For RER’s January edition, we interviewed more than 50 rental companies and rental industry suppliers and will present several of them in RER Reports. Here Benno Jurgemeyer, CEO of Sunstate Equipment shares his expectations for the coming year....More

Harry Schneider, president of Allied Financial Solutions, Florence, Ky., talks with RER’s Michael Roth about why rental companies are likely to grow or replace fleet in 2013 and how finance programs can facilitate. RER: What kind of year was 2012 for your business and what do you expect for 2013? Schneider: We had a very good year. We expected a little slowdown closer to the election and that is what we saw. Since the election things have picked up considerably. Companies are going to have to “get back to business” in 2013. That means they are going to have to upgrade their fleet to make sure they are putting quality assets to work for their customers. We should see a nice increase in opportunities for providing funding to our customers in 2013....More

Concrete equipment manufacturers talk about technological developments, ergonomics, how the customer is changing and how playing X-Box helps operators....More