Newly Opened Bobcat of Tallahasee Donates to Feed Needy Families
Leppo Rents Bobcat of Tallahassee, which just opened in March of this year, gave support to its new community by donating $5,000 to Second Harvest of the Big Bend to help provide food for those in need in Leon County and surrounding areas.
Leppo Rents Bobcat of Tallahassee, which just opened in March of this year, gave support to its new community by donating $5,000 to Second Harvest of the Big Bend to help provide food for those in need in Leon County and surrounding areas, WTXL, the ABC television affiliate in the north Florida city reported. The station reported that opening a new business even in the best of times is challenging and how much more so during a pandemic.
Branch manager Jason Rentz told WTXL the staff at the branch is taking all precautions recommended by the CDC and is constantly wiping down and sanitizing the doors and counters and the equipment “to protect our employees and our customers.” The staff of the branch wears face masks at all times. The store has already hired some local people, another way of supporting the local community.
Rentz said the safety and cleanliness precautions are “the new normal” and he anticipated the branch will continue to follow the procedures even after the pandemic is over and things return to relative normalcy. “This is the new normal,” Rentz told WTXL.
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.
