Compact Power Equipment Rental Releases Mobile Rental App
Compact Power Equipment Rental has come up with a mobile app to facilitate the rental of equipment such as backhoes, excavators and skid-steer loaders. Now available for download from Apple and Google Play, the Compact Power Equipment Rental app features a catalog of all the equipment that is available at nearby Home Depot locations for both homeowner and professional contractor jobs.
“We know that having the right tools for the job is the biggest factor in getting a job done right, on time and under budget,” said Richard Porter, Compact Power chief operating officer. “And so we wanted to make sure our customers would be able to access these tools as conveniently as possible.”
Compact Power customers can still rent online at http://compactpowerrents.com or in stores. Once customers download the free mobile app, the customer has to answer a few simple questions and can then request a delivery.
After the initial setup, customers can have access to these features:
- Creating an account;
- Access to both active and past rentals;
- Re-rent past equipment rentals with one click;
- Delivery to multiple addresses;
- Select add-ons such as extra fuel or damage protection;
- Access to Compact Power’s full rental catalog;
- Customizable enterprise account features.
“From Uber to AirBnB, customers are increasingly realizing the benefits to renting versus buying,” said Porter. “Compact Power is bringing this same level of convenience to the construction and home improvement market.”
Compact Power Equipment Rental is available at more than 1,000 Home Depot locations in the United States and Canada. Equipment includes skid-steer loaders, aerial equipment, tractor loader backhoes, mini-excavators, trenchers, aerators, chipper/shredders and stump grinders.
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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.