H&E Equipment Services has opened a new branch in San Jose, Calif., joining seven other full-service H&E operations in California and 72 stores nationwide. The store will provide full-service coverage to customers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
The facility is on three acres with a full yard area, offices, parts warehouse and a four-bay repair shop. It specializes in aerial work platforms, telescopic forklifts, earthmoving and general construction equipment from manufacturers including Atlas Copco, Gehl, Genie, JLG, Multiquip, Okada, Skyjack, Takeuchi, Wacker Neuson, Yanmar and others.
“As we continue to expand our presence in the San Francisco and Sacramento areas, we are reinforcing the value of our full-service model by providing a better choice for customers within this thriving metropolitan area,” said Jim Kaczmarek, H&E San Jose branch manager. “Opening a new branch in San Jose will make it more convenient for customers in Santa Clara, San Mateo, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties to benefit from all we offer, including rentals, sales, parts and service. Our factory-trained technicians and product support professionals will be in the area on a daily basis, providing a high level of equipment service those customers can depend on.”
In addition to equipment rentals, H&E San Jose branch provides new and used equipment sales, in-shop and mobile service, a comprehensive parts inventory, training and other value-added services.
H&E Equipment Services, No. 7 on the RER 100, now has 73 branches in the Gulf Coast, Mid-Atlantic, Intermountain, Southwest, Northwest, and West Coast regions.
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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.