ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Volvo Construction Equipment Rents announced the opening of a new independently owned Volvo CE Rents equipment rental center in Kentucky. Summers Equipment, owned by G.P. (Perry) Summers, is located in Prestonburg, Ky.

The Summers Equipment Volvo rental center is the second Volvo CE Rents franchise in Kentucky; the first center was opened in 2003 in Crittenden, Ky.

Roadrunner Industrial Works, owned by Merrill Robinson, opened a Volvo CE Rents Center franchise in Peralta, N.M., last November, and celebrated its grand opening recently at its newly remodeled facility.

Roadrunner Rental hosted construction, commercial, residential and industrial contractors and homeowners in Valencia and Bernalillo counties. Events included a matanza (pig cooked in the ground), equipment demonstrations and a backhoe rodeo. Door prizes were also given.

Sales and engineering representatives from equipment manufacturers were in attendance to demonstrate the equipment and answer questions. The equipment was made available for testing by customers. They also offered special equipment rental financing incentives to their customers during their visit to the new Volvo Rents center.

Volvo CE Rents, which began its equipment rental franchise initiative in 2001, 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 and Pennsylvania.

Volvo Rents is No. 19 on the new RER 100.