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    United Rentals Acquires New York-Based Able Equipment Rental

    Feb. 9, 2023
    In the past year, Able has made a few acquisitions of its own, including Extreme Rentals USA in July of last year, based in Manassas, Va., serving the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia markets.

    United Rentals has acquired Able Equipment Rental, according to reports on social media and Able’s website. Neither company has provided more details about the transaction.

    Able Equipment Rental, headquartered in Deer Park, N.Y., is one of the largest and fastest growing companies based in the New York metropolitan area. The company, with six branches, has recently expanded into the Philadephia-South New Jersey area as well. Able has a broad mix of construction equipment for rent – earthmoving, aerial equipment, compaction and more.

    Able was founded by Steve Laganas in 1996 and has grown to be one of the leading rental players in the New York area.

    In the past year, Able has made a few acquisitions of its own, including Extreme Rentals USA in July of last year, based in Manassas, Va., serving the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia markets. In June, Able acquired Elite Construction Rentals located in Wallingford, Conn., which enabled the company to broaden its footprint further into southern New England.

    Able is No. 45 on the RER 100. United Rentals, based in Stamford, Conn., is No. 1 on the RER 100.

    About the Author

    Michael Roth | Editor

    Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.