MEC AWP Hires Customer Service Manager for the Parts Department
MEC Aerial Work Platforms has hired Alan Shank as its customer service manager – parts department. Prior to joining MEC, Alan worked for TEC Equipment as its parts manager.
MEC Aerial Work Platforms has hired Alan Shank as its customer service manager – parts department. Prior to joining MEC, Alan worked for TEC Equipment as its parts manager.
“Alan’s 30+ years of experience in truck and trailer parts will transfer directly over to the mobile elevated work platform industry,” said Brian McFarland, vice president of MEC Parts. “His role as customer service manager for the parts department will be to oversee the parts customer service representatives and support the outside sales representatives. He will help to improve our service as well as help grow the parts department. Alan’s desire to achieve impactful goals makes him a perfect fit for our parts department and the MEC Co.”
“I am very excited to join the team at MEC and continue their amazing success story,” Shank said. “Their position in the market and portfolio makes them a company to watch. We are focused on building an even greater product, parts and service offer for our customers.”
MEC Aerial Work Platforms is a manufacturer of a line of aerial work platforms in Kerman, Calif. For 45 years and counting, MEC lifts carry the tradition of quality and innovation. MEC's portfolio of Aerial Work Platforms ranges from direct electric drive slab scissors to rough terrain booms with patented and award-winning design features. Visit www.MECawp.com.
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.
