Point of Rental, U.K. College Partner on Rental Education
Point of Rental and Askham Bryan College in York are partnering to enhance plant hire (equipment rental) education - the hire software company will provide software and a training database for use among plant hire apprentices attending the college.
Access to the software and the database will ensure that apprentices receive realistic, thorough training while familiarizing them with software used by a large portion of the hire industry. Additionally, Point of Rental will provide training to the Askham Bryan delivery team to ensure they’re fully conversant with the system functions and capabilities.
“The support provided by Point of Rental in donating their Syrinx software and their work in developing a fully functioning plant hire database will enable us to simulate situations that apprentice hire controllers will encounter in the workplace,” said Peter Chapman, course manager and lecturer in construction plant management. “No other provider offered this amount of support; it demonstrates Point of Rental’s commitment to supporting the training requirements of the plant hire industry and its employers.”
“We’re excited to be able to empower students at Askham Bryan by enhancing their ability to access resources used in the industry,” said outside sales manager Les Bunce.
Point of Rental is dedicated to promoting the rental industry via innovation, whether it’s with award-winning software or partnering with others to build a more knowledgeable community.
About the Author
Michael Roth
Editor
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.