Aftral, a large training organization in transport and logistics, commissioned 42 new Haulotte HA12IPs for use in France and overseas. The new equipment will be used in the company’s training facilities for users to practice on mobile elevating work platforms. The HA12IP are electric articulating booms with a horizontal outreach of 6.5 meters and full proportional controls.
“Initial feedback from Aftral teams is very positive,” said Gilles Galinou, head of purchasing and projects at Aftral. “The new machine will be used to train people to operate powered access equipment safely and effectively in challenging work environments.”
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.
