Volvo Rents Launches App for iPhone
Volvo Rents is launching an iPhone app providing customers with information about rental equipment such as equipment make, model number and equipment specification information hard-coded within the application. Customers can access detailed rental product information on more than 100 aerial work platforms and reach forklift items....
AmeriQuip Eagle Names Alexander Equipment as Illinois Dealer
Houston-based AmeriQuip last week announced Alexander Equipment, Bourbonnais, Ill., as its new dealer in Illinois for the complete line of AmeriQuip products, which includes Eagle towable manlifts, Eagle self-propelled trax manlifts, Eagle hydraulic hammers, Eagle trailers, Eagle atlas beam and Eagle tire covers....
H&E Equipment Services Announces Second-Quarter Earnings Call
H&E Equipment Services (Nasdaq: HEES) last week announced that it will release its 2010 second-quarter financial results before the market on Thursday, Aug. 5. The company will also hold a conference call to discuss second-quarter results that day at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. To listen to the call, participants should dial (913) 981-5539 approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. A telephonic replay will become available after 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 5, and will continue through Aug. 13, by dialing (719) 457-0820 and entering the confirmation code 9585454....
AED Headquarters in Temporary State of Emergency
Recovering from the second devastating flood to permeate its offices in two years, Associated Equipment Distributors' North American headquarters temporarily lost power and network connectivity following a deluge of rain July 23. AED staff worked through the weekend to salvage data and assets, and the association's website and e-mail service have been restored to nearly 100 percent....
Hertz Equipment and Car Rental Divisions Collaborate on Gulf Coast Services
In an increasing trend of synergizing its car rental and equipment rental divisions, Hertz Corp has opened a Gulf Coast Customer Care Center to assist retail customers, businesspeople and government employees traveling to the Gulf Coast area who need rental cars and equipment for clean-up-related activities. The Care Center can be reached by calling 1-888-932-7259 or accessed online at www.hertz.com/gulfhelp....
United Rentals Raising CapEx Spend, CFO Plummer Asserts
United Rentals announced last week that it has raised its planned net rental capex to $160 million to $180 million, a 60-percent increase from its previously projected range....
Missouri Caterpillar Dealers Feted for Support of Technical College Programs
Missouri Caterpillar dealers, Dean Machinery Co. and Fabick Cat, have been awarded the Missouri Association of Career and Technical Education 2010 Certification of Appreciation. Both dealerships, also major rental companies on the RER 100, received their statewide recognition at the 41st Annual Missouri ACTE Conference this week in Springfield, Mo....
St. Louis Building is First All IPAF-Trained U.S. Jobsite
The Robert A. Young building in St. Louis is the first construction site in the United States designated 100 percent AWPT-trained. American Work Platform Training is the North American subsidiary of the U.K.-based International Powered Access Federation that manages the training program in the North American market....
Spider Mobilizes Fast to Expedite LeBron’s Exit
Spider, a division of SafeWorks LLC, recently provided the powered access solution to promptly remove the massive Nike advertisement featuring LeBron James from the Sherwin Williams Building, near Public Square in Cleveland....
Volvo Group Net Sales Grow 27 Percent in Second Quarter
Volvo Group last week reported that sales in the second quarter ended June 30, continued to increase on a gradual recovery in demand in most of its markets. Net sales in the quarter increased 27 percent to SEK 68.8 billion (about U.S. 9.41 billion) from SEK 54.0 billion (U.S. $7.39 billion) in the year-ago period....
Wacker Neuson’s Order Backlog Jumps 350 Percent at End of Q2
The Wacker Neuson Group increased second-quarter revenue relative to both the first quarter of its current fiscal year as well as the same quarter in 2009, according to provisional figures the company released this week. Wacker Neuson also posted positive earnings and a strong revival of order intake, with order backlog for compact equipment at the end of June 2010 350-percent higher than for the same period last year....
Caterpillar Profit Soars 91 Percent in Second Quarter
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) last week reported a second-quarter profit of $1.09 per share, an increase of $0.49 per share from a profit of $0.60 per share in the second quarter of 2009. Profit of $707 million was 91-percent higher than second-quarter 2009 profit of $371 million. Sales and revenues of $10.41 billion were up 31 percent from $7.98 billion in the second quarter of 2009....
RSC Equipment Rental Posts Slight Q2 Declines
RSC Equipment Rental (RRR) posted a 7.8-percent total revenue decline in the second quarter of 2010, with $301 million in total revenue compared with $326.6 million for the same period in 2009. Rental revenues dropped 4 percent from $270.5 million in Q209 to $259.7 million for the recently completed quarter ended June 30....
JESCO Acquires Standard Equipment
JESCO, a John Deere construction dealership with a large rental fleet based in South Plainfield, N.J., has acquired Standard Equipment, based in Frederick, Md....
Terex 2Q Sales Jump, DeFeo Calls Prospects ‘Cautious, but Positive’
Terex Corp. (NYSE: TEX) last week announced a net loss from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2010 of $13.1 million, or $0.12 per share, compared to a net loss from continuing operations of $99.6 million, or $1.00 per share, for the second quarter of 2009. Contributing to the 2Q10 net loss were pre-tax charges of approximately $11 million associated with restructuring programs and manufacturing realignment in certain businesses and a pre-tax provision of approximately $7 million for expected historical foreign duty and related obligations for certain products....
JCB Adds Darr Equipment in Texas and Oklahoma
JCB last week expanded its North American dealer network with the addition of Southlake, Texas-based Darr Equipment Co. A fourth generation, family-owned and operated company with locations in Texas and Oklahoma, Darr Equipment provides new and used equipment sales and rentals to the materials handling industry along with 24-hour parts and service....
Bigge Adds Three Southern U.S. Crane Rental Locations
Bigge Crane and Rigging recently opened a new location in Aiken, S.C., which offers bare crane rental in South Carolina and the entire Gulf Coast region including Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Bigge rents rough terrain, all terrain, and crawler cranes, as well as carry decks and boom trucks from its South Carolina location. Along with sister locations in Houston and Richmond, Va., Bigge now has the largest rough terrain crane fleet in the Southeastern U.S., according to the company....
Birch Equipment Lends Support for Burned Children’s Recovery Foundation
Birch Equipment employees recently participated in a series of events to support the Burned Children’s Recovery Foundation. Events included a night of comedy with Ryan Stiles and Friends, the Ryan Stiles Celebrity Golf Classic, and a celebrity gala and auction at Silver Reef Casino in Ferndale, Wash., where celebrities including former NBA player Detlef Schrempf and actors Shooter McGavin and Jack McGee were in attendance....
Champion Adds J.F. Sahlberg as Grader Dealer in Washington State
Champion Motor Graders expanded its nationwide sales network with the appointment of J.F. Sahlberg & Co. as its authorized dealer in western Washington State. J.F. Sahlberg & Co. specializes in the needs of government buyers....
Stone Appoints MJ Miller as Manufacturers’ Rep
Stone Construction Equipment appointed MJ Miller Combined Companies as its new manufacturers’ rep organization. MJ Miller CC will representing the full line of Stone products, in addition to its other product lines, to select dealers and distributors and rental businesses in the Great Lakes Region covering the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and West Virginia....
In Early Stages of Recovery, United Rentals CEO Says
Although overall total revenue declined in the second quarter, other signs were positive, with indications that the rental economy is in the early stages of recovery, United Rentals CEO Michael Kneeland told a conference call this week....
U.K. Group Issues Best Practice Guidance on Use on Aerials
The U.K.-based Strategic Forum for Construction Plant Safety Group, which includes the International Power Access Federation, has released a Best Practice Guidance for mobile elevating work platforms with the aim of avoiding trapping or crushing incidents when the machines are used in confined overhead spaces....
JCB Posts Slight Increase in Profitability Despite Lower 2009 Sales
U.K.-based manufacturer JCB maintained profitability in 2009 despite the deep recession in the global construction industry, with profit before tax increasing slightly to £29 million (about U.S. $44.8 million) despite sales dropping by a third to £1.35 billion (about U.S. $2.1 billion)....
IHS Global Sees Signs of Recovery for Rental
The rental industry is showing signs of recovery according to IHS Global Insight, an economic forecasting firm, in a study prepared for the American Rental Association....
Confirmation Hearing on Neff Bankruptcy Scheduled for September
Neff Rental has been cleared to begin soliciting votes from creditors for its reorganization plan. The bankruptcy court — U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York — has scheduled a confirmation hearing Sept. 14, the company said....
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