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Business

Year in Review: The Biggest Construction Equipment News Stories of 2016

While everyone has their sights on ConExpo in March, it might be easy to overlook what a busy year 2016 turned out to be. Here’s an quick overview, plus a timeline, of what happened in the construction equipment industry last year. Bonus: check out our editors’ quick predictions for 2017 on page 30. (Note: In order to meet […]

December 22, 2016

Dealers

Low margins for contractors make close dealer relationships even more valuable

Let’s call him Mac. I met Mac on a recent visit to the Southwest, 
as part of our continuing editorial emphasis to get our butts out of the office and out into the field where real life happens. As the saying goes, “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” Mac […]

December 6, 2016

Dealers

Yancey Bros. Cat uses SmartEquip for maintenance, repair workflow improvements at rental stores

Austell, Georgia-based Yancey Bros. Cat, the oldest Caterpillar dealer in the U.S., has completed the integration of SmartEquip’s Enterprise applications into its Cat Rental Store locations in an effort to boost productivity in multiple operations at these locations. These applications allow automation in service processes and connect fleet owners to manufacturers and dealers with real-time […]

September 26, 2016

Dealers

Underground Safety Equipment acquires TrenchSafety and Supply

Trenching equipment rental company Underground Safety Equipment, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has acquired TrenchSafety and Supply, allowing the company to expand into the Mid-South region. The sale was made final September 16. TrenchSafety was formed in 1994 and provides trenching equipment rental and sales, as well as safety and performance consulting for trenching contractors. It has […]

September 23, 2016

Dealers

BigRentz launches QuickRentz notifications allowing rental locations to claim orders instantly

BigRentz, an online network that fulfills rental requests from more than 7,500 equipment rental suppliers across the U.S., has introduced a feature that will allow those suppliers to instantly claim an order. The feature, dubbed QuickRentz, will send an email and SMS message to rental locations that opt to participate notifying them instantly of a […]

September 14, 2016

Dealers

BigRentz launches online customer portal for equipment rental management

BigRentz has launched a responsive-design online customer portal designed to ease management of equipment rentals. “The portal was born from thousands of conversations and daily interactions with our customers who wanted a single location to manage their rental activity through BigRentz,” says President and CEO Dallas Imbimbo. “This makes the equipment rental process as easy […]

September 5, 2016

Dealers

JLG doubles length of service intervals on telehandlers

JLG has announced that the length of engine service intervals on JLG and SkyTrak telehandlers equipped with Cummins QSF3.8 diesel engines have doubled, from 500 to 1,000 hours. JLG global product director for telehandlers Brian Boeckman says the service interval extension is due to the use of synthetic oil and new oil and fuel filters. […]

August 5, 2016

Dealers

Durante Rentals opens seventh location

New York-based equipment and tool rental house Durante Rentals has opened its third location in less than a year and its seventh overall. The new location sits on 13 acres in Brewster, New York, and is the company’s second location to open in Putnam County following the opening of the Carmel location seven months ago. “With the […]

July 15, 2016

Dealers

Hertz Equipment Rentals is now Herc Rentals following spin-off

Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation said it expected to complete its metamorphosis into Herc Rentals today, July 1st, officially separating from Hertz Global Holdings. In materials prepared for investors and available on its website, hercrentals.com, Herc Rentals estimates its 2015 North American market share was 4 percent, compared with United Rentals at 13 percent and Sunbelt Rentals […]

July 1, 2016

Construction Equipment

Vermeer’s new FTX25 takes aim at residential footings market

Based on the platform of Vermeer’s compact utility loader, the company’s new FTX25 footings trencher is a stand-on, track-mounted unit built to dig footings up to 26 inches deep and up to 12 inches wide. “This is a rental unit directly aimed at the housing market,” says Todd Roorda with Vermeer. “Rental is huge in […]

March 17, 2016

Business

POLL: Are you renting more heavy equipment?

As we’ve spoken to contractors over the last few years, especially with those who were able to keep their businesses alive during the recession, we’ve heard from more and more who have increased their equipment rentals. Whether it was selling off much of their fleet to stay lean and mean during the recession or using rental […]

March 16, 2016

Business

ARA’s Rental Penetration Index down slightly in 2015 despite “robust” non-residential market

The American Rental Association’s Rental Penetration Index, which has been on a steep incline in the past five years, saw its first downward movement in 2015, says ARA. The decrease was slight, however, going from 53.9 percent in 2014 to 52.9 percent in 2015. The index—which measures the share of the U.S. construction equipment fleet […]

February 22, 2016