Custom Truck One Source Acquires SOS Fleet Services
Custom Truck One Source has acquired the business of SOS Fleet Services LLC, a full-service repair facility located in Alexandria, La. This acquisition brings more than 30,000 square feet of space and a highly experienced team that will significantly enhance Custom Truck’s service footprint in the region. The company’s new Alexandria branch is poised to offer the full breadth of Custom Truck’s rental product offering, as well as repair service, to customers in the area.
This acquisition, along with the recently announced 2024 planned branch openings in Casa Grande, Ariz.; Sacramento, Calif.; and Salt Lake City, will increase Custom Truck’s national footprint to 39 locations, from its previous 35. Our footprint expansion will enable us to better serve our customers, ensuring readiness and capability to meet their needs.
“The acquisition of the business of SOS Fleet Services marks an important step in our continued efforts to expand our footprint to better serve our rental fleet and our customers,” said Ryan McMonagle, CEO of Custom Truck One Source. “We are thrilled for the opportunity to expand into Alexandria, a vibrant community that has deep roots in the powerline industry. We are excited to welcome the SOS Fleet Services team to the Custom Truck family and look forward to the invaluable contributions they will make to our customers and our team.”
CTOS’ coast-to-coast rental fleet of more than 10,300 units includes aerial devices, boom trucks, cranes, digger derricks, pressure drills, stringing gear, hi-rail equipment, repair parts, tools and accessories.
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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.