Innovative Product Award Honorable Mention: Felling Trailers
Product: FT-12 EZ-T 14.5-foot EX-Tilt Trailer
Manufacturer: Felling Trailers
Key Innovation: Felling’s EZ Tilt Technology allows for ground level loading with its rotating torsion suspension, providing a 5-degree load angle.
Manufacturer’s Description: Felling Trailers expands EZ-Tilt model line to offer the FT-12 EZ-T in a 14.5-foot tilt deck length (11-foot deck and 3.5-foot smooth steel approach), originally only available with an 18.5-foot deck length, along with adding hot dip galvanized finish as an option. The FT-12 EZ-T 14.5-foot features Felling’s EZ Tilt Technology which allows for ground-level loading with its rotating torsion suspension, providing a 5-degree load angle. This low load angle gives the operator the ability to load the hard to load floor sweepers and has the capacity to haul a skid steer. Flexibility, with the electric/hydraulic lift system, the power-up and down gives the operator the ability to load and deliver two scissor lifts at a time. These features provide the operator's versatility to load a variety of equipment safely and quickly, helping them to get on their way quickly and safely.
The EZ-Tilt trailer is great for rental centers, offering the versatility to load a variety of equipment safely and quickly, getting the customer on their way. “The EZ Tilt is what I would call a universal trailer, the electric/hydraulic lift system with the power up and down gives the operator the ability to load and deliver two scissor lifts at a time,” said Ed Steinemann, Felling’s national account manager. “Plus, with the EZ Tilt’s low load angle, it gives the operator the ability to load the hard to load floor sweepers and has the capacity to haul a skid steer.”
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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.