Mark Uebner of Placer Sales, based in Northern California, was awarded the Bob Gelman Outstanding Rental Representative Award at The Rental Show in Atlanta.
Mark Uebner, right, accepts the Bob Gelman Outstanding Rental Representative Award from Andy Zelazny, national sales manager, General Pipe Cleaners.
Mark Uebner of Placer Sales, based in Northern California, was awarded the Bob Gelman Outstanding Rental Representative Award at The Rental Show in Atlanta. The award was presented by Andy Zelazny, national sales manager of General Pipe Cleaners, McKees Rocks, Pa. Uebner has represented General Pipe Cleaner, a division of General Wire Spring Co., in Northern California and Nevada for 12 years.
The Outstanding Rental Representative Award is named for Bob Gelman, former sales manager of General Pipe Cleaners for 27 years, until his death in April 2001.
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.
