United Rentals Honors Customers for Total Control Innovation
United Rentals this week recognized 12 customers for innovative use of United Rentals Total Control to run their businesses and manage equipment fleets, at the 2019 Total Control & Innovation Conference in San Antonio. The customers, which represent a range of leading construction and industrial companies, were presented with the inaugural Total Control Performance Awards that salute excellence in optimizing fleets to save time and money.
Each customer recognized stands out in how it used Total Control to transform equipment fleet management to create smarter worksites and produce tangible productivity gains. Total Control is a cloud-based worksite performance solution that brings together insight and action to help companies make the most of their equipment fleets to utilize assets more efficiently across multiple projects.
“The Total Control Performance Awards recognize astute organizations that have leveraged our digital solutions to simplify worksite complexity, and maximize uptime and productivity,” said Gordon McDonald, vice president - managed services, United Rentals. “United Rentals greatly values our strong partnership with each of these leaders. The companies are exceptional in how they have taken control of their equipment fleets to improve how they consume rental equipment and deliver real savings to the business.”
“It is a great honor to join our peers in receiving this award that recognizes outstanding achievement in equipment fleet management performance,” said Patricia Jones, Jones Contracting. “Total Control is an invaluable digital tool in helping us run our business. It has enabled true digital transformation, where equipment, data and decision-making coalesce to improve productivity and inform investment.”
The United Rentals customers receiving 2019 Total Control Performance Awards include:
- American Integrated Services, Inc.
- CHS Inc.
- M.C. Dean, Inc.
- Exelon Corp.
- IES Commercial & Industrial - Greenville Location
- Jones Contractors, Inc.
- Marathon Petroleum Corporation
- S.A. Comunale Co., Inc.
- Southern Company
- Watterson
- JF White Contracting Co.
- Wurster Engineering
The 2019 Total Control & Innovation Conference is a premier customer event for executives and professionals in the construction and industrial sectors that brings together the latest innovation and leading-edge technology to help customers drive performance on their worksites. The conference was held JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa in San Antonio.
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.