All Access Rentals Co-owner Jeffrey Johnson Killed in Crash
Jeffrey Johnson, co-owner of All Access Rentals, was killed in a plane crash last week. Johnson, 50, died during a flying lesson when the single-engine plane developed engine problems crashed in a residential area in Santee, Calif.
Johnson founded All Access with his best friend Kevin Aylesworth in 1999, and the two men grew the Spring Valley, Calif.-based company to be one of the leading Southern California independent rental companies.
Johnson, born in Harbor City, Calif., was described on the company’s website as “generous and big-hearted, full of fun and enthusiasm, the lift of the party, always ready to make others laugh.” He raced boats, cars and motorcycles, hosted parties on his yacht, participated in marathons and traveled the world. Mike Crouch, president of Acme Lift, described Johnson as a dedicated family man.
Johnson is survived by his wife Jaime and children Sophia, Juliana, Jeffrey Jr., Cruz and Ella, as well as his parents and many extended family members. Johnson was a generous contributor to the Jonathan Jacques Children’s Cancer Center in memory of his late brother Matt. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to: https://supportlongbeach.memorialcare.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=540 or sent to:
Jonathan Jaques Children’s Cancer Center, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, P.O. Box 1428, Long Beach, CA 90801-1428. Designate donations in memory of Jeff Johnson to “Matt’s Team.”
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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.