Manitou and Gehl, leading manufacturers of compact equipment, announce Aerial Access Equipment, based in Baton Rouge, La., as a new dealer. Aerial Access Equipment provides sales and service as well as rental to southern Louisiana and the southeastern part of Texas for Gehl compact track loaders and compact excavators as well as Manitou construction telehandlers.
Aerial Access also handles Genie, Terex, JLG, Skytrak, Snorkel, Case, Bobcat and other brands and is No. 82 on the RER 100.
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.
