Volvo Rents Opens Arkansas, Signs Lousianna Franchise

Oct. 1, 2003
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Volvo Construction Equipment Rents recently announced the opening of a newly independently owned Volvo CE Rents equipment rental center

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Volvo Construction Equipment Rents recently announced the opening of a newly independently owned Volvo CE Rents equipment rental center in Arkansas and the signing of a franchise contract for new Volvo CE Rents centers in Louisiana.

Arkansas Rental Co., LLC, owned by R.C. Coburn, has opened a Volvo CE Rents center in Little Rock, Ark. K. Paul and Margaret Bullock, principals of JPS, LLC, West Monroe, La., entered into a franchise agreement to own and operate Volvo CE Rents equipment centers in the metropolitan Monroe area. JPS is the third Volvo Rents franchise in Louisiana; the company will open its first center in the near future.

The company also signed franchise agreements for new Volvo equipment rental centers in the metropolitan Philadelphia area.

Wenner Equipment, West Chester, Pa., and Ballantine Industrial Truck Service, Langhorne, Pa., and their principals, John Wenner and Robert Mannherz, respectively, entered into Volvo CE Rents franchise agreements to own and operate independent Volvo CE Rents centers in their cities.

WDB Rental, Cincinnati, opened a second Volvo Rents equipment rental facility recently. The new rental center, in Crittenden, Ky., is the second independently owned and operated rental franchise under the Volvo name for WDB Rental. The company's first Volvo Rents business was opened in 2002 in Hamilton, Ohio. WDB Rental is owned by Dale and Cheryl Barger of Cincinnati.

The new Kentucky-based Volvo Rents center will carry, in addition to Volvo construction, commercial, industrial and homeowner markets.

Volvo Construction Equipment Rents also signed a franchise agreement for new Volvo CE Rents equipment centers in the Richmond, Va., metropolitan area.

W.E.R. Inc., owned by William Walsh, entered into a franchise agreement to own and operate Volvo CE Rents centers in the Richmond area. The W.E.R. Inc. franchise is the second Volvo CE Rents franchise operation in Virginia. The Nelva Corp., dba Allied Rental Centers, opened a Volvo CE Rents center in early 2003 in the Virginia Beach metropolitan area.

Volvo CE Rents has 34 rental centers open in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, California, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, New York, Minnesota, Arkansas, New Jersey, Alabama and Kentucky.