Runnion Equipment Co., Hodgkins, Ill., is growing its sales team with the addition of John Pielli. Pielli has almost 30 years of crane experience both as a mechanic and salesman, working previously for Hiab. He will be focusing on the Northern Illinois area, making sure that his customers have the equipment they need to get their jobs done on time and in budget.
Runnion Equipment Co. has a wide variety of telescoping and articulating boom trucks, aerial lifts and truck-mounted forklifts.
“The company and employees are all welcoming and very helpful,” said Pielli. “I can’t wait to build new relationships and reunite with old ones.”
“We are incredibly excited to have John on board and working for Runnion Equipment Company,” said Brad Runnion, sales manager. “With 21 years as a mechanic and over seven years in sales, John has an intimate knowledge of lifting equipment which allows him to provide a unique perspective that will help deliver creative solutions and real value to our customers.”
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Michael Roth
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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.