MTA Distributors hosted the 2020 Supplier Summit in Nashville, Tenn., recently to kick off its 40th year serving the rental industry. With its top suppliers in attendance, MTA shared its 2030 Vision as well as the current state of the company. Ace Harrington, MTA founder, said, “We are proud of our vendor partnerships and excited to plan the next 40 years.”
MTA was established in 1980 and today is the nation’s largest supplier of power equipment, small tools, parts, and accessories to the rental industry. MTA represents more than 200 different manufacturers with an extensive system of technical support, customer service, and multiple warehouse locations. MTA serves as a Resource Center for the many different needs across its customers’ diverse equipment fleets.
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.
