Luc Bertrand Succeeds Harold Dubé as President of Accès Location+

Harold Dubé, president and founder of Acces Location+, has decided to retire, officially selling his shares on July 25 to Luc Bertrand, vice president, and other shareholders: Fonds régionaux de solidarité FTQ and Yvan Blais.

Michael Roth

Aug. 24, 2018

2 min read

Harold Dubeacute left is retiring from Quebecrsquos Accegraves Location with Luc Bertrand right taking over as president — Harold Dubé, left, is retiring from Quebec’s Accès Location+, with Luc Bertrand, right, taking over as president.

Dubé will continue to work alongside Bertrand, now taking over as president, as a mentor to ensure a smooth transition until the end of 2018. In the new year he will continue, as needed, as an advisor to Bertrand.

“Luc has been employed at Accès Location+ since 2006,” said Dubé. “After only five years of service, he became my business partner. His knowledge, experience in the industry, and his leadership will enable the continuing and successful growth of the company.”

“Mr. Dubé is a visionary who patiently built a company appreciated for the quality of its service and equipment,” said Bertrand. “Known for his human qualities, his listening ear, and incomparable generosity, he is highly esteemed by all. Harold’s life and work have left a mark on Accès Location+.”

Accès Location+ is headquartered in Beloeil, Quebec, Canada, a suburb east of Montreal. The company primarily provides aerial equipment, offering rentals, training, sales, transportation, maintenance and repairs. It has more than 750 pieces of equipment with an average fleet age of three years.

Accès Location+ is No. 97 on the RER 100.

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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.