Allen Engineering is presenting its new HDX705 riding trowel, an addition to its 2025 lineup of high-performance, fully hydraulic riding trowels. The HDX705 is equipped with a robust Ford 2.5-liter gasoline engine and advanced integrated technology. This new model is equipped with Allen’s Intelli-Power telematics system, which ensures reliable communication between the engine and Bosch-Rexroth hydraulic components, resulting in improved machine responsiveness, extended component life, and a smarter, more efficient operating experience.
The trowel has a hydraulic joystick power steering with electric spray, throttle and cruise control, a two-point lift, and a removable step for easy access to blades. It has a digital display/computer, six adjustable LED lights, and super-duty cast iron spiders with six steel trowel arms. The new hydraulic rider takes gasoline instead of diesel.
The unit features an 84 hp engine, 117.6-inch wide panning path, and power steering system. Visit www.alleneng.com for more information.
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.
