The American Rental Association has decided to cancel its Rental Innovation Conference & Exhibits event scheduled for March 9 and 10, 2022 in Grapevine, Texas.
The decision was made because of a variety of factors. These include the continued spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19), and both transmission and positivity rates in Dallas County currently being categorized as “High.” Other factors in the decision were the return of essential travel only restrictions for many large organizations, equipment availability issues, as well as parts and staff shortages.
The ARA is evaluating options to deliver the education program portion of the conference at a future event. Those who had already registered for the Rental Innovation Conference & Exhibits will receive a full refund, ARA said.
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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.