PDQ Rentals, a Point-of-Rental Software Customer, Joins with SmartEquip

PDQ Rentals, Santa Fe Springs, Calif., has joined the SmartEquip Network and will utilize SmartEquip’s Enterprise application in conjunction with its existing rental management software by Point-of-Rental.
June 30, 2015
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PDQ Rentals, Santa Fe Springs, Calif., has joined the SmartEquip Network and will utilize SmartEquip’s Enterprise application in conjunction with its existing rental management software by Point-of-Rental. PDQ will be able to streamline its service process, eliminate parts order errors and increase rental fleet utilization, leveraging the combined platform to enhance existing business relationships with the 160 parts and MRO suppliers on the SmartEquip network.

PDQ Rentals is one of the first Point-of-Rental customers to join the SmartEquip Network. Earlier this year, SmartEquip and Point-of-Rental announced a strategic partnership to integrate their respective software platforms. The integration enables Point-of-Rental’s Enterprise users to easily add SmartEquip Enterprise through an interface designed by a joint team of software engineers at Point-of-Rental and SmartEquip.

“We have watched the development of the SmartEquip Network over several years and are very excited to be one of the first Point-of-Rental customers to sign with SmartEquip,” said Todd Turner, PDQ Rentals’ vice president. “We look forward to leveraging the SmartEquip Network to reduce order errors, increase mechanic wrench time and improve our fleet’s uptime and utilization.”

“We firmly believe the efficiencies that SmartEquip delivers are not just for large contractors or national rental fleets,” added Fernando Pinera, SmartEquip chief operating officer. “All fleets benefit greatly from our network’s ability to reduce the manual processes and errors that create inefficiencies.”

PDQ Rentals was founded in 1952 and is one of Southern California’s largest independent equipment rental, sales and service companies, ranked No. 94 on the RER 100. PDQ’s primarily lines of equipment are Komatsu, Takeuchi, JLG, Wacker-Neuson, Bomag Compaction, Sullair, Honda Power and Skyjack.

About the Author

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.

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