The rental business can be lucrative but revenue received of course must be in proper proportion to cost and the expense of delivering equipment efficiently must be managed properly. What is the cost of running delivery trucks, how do rental companies minimize those costs to be successful? How do rental companies organize dispatch and delivery with the minimum waste of fuel and extra miles on trucks running empty and unproductive? And how can software help a rental company to organize delivery effectively?
Our webinar on Wednesday, May 18 will bring some insight into those and other related issues. We have operations expertise of Heath Watton, Southeast Ohio regional manager, of Southeastern Equipment, a distributor and rental company with 21 locations in four states, accustomed to organizing dispatch and delivery in a wide geographic area. We also have Rich Elefante, transportation, logistics and dispatch manager for Deer Park, N.Y.-based Able Equipment Rental, which delivers equipment in some very congested areas around New York City, Long Island, New Jersey and the greater Philadelphia area. And we have two software expects who design software for rental companies and have programs specifically geared towards efficiency in dealing with dispatch and delivery. We have Wayne Harris, CEO of Point of Rental Software and Alex Kress, general manager of Texada Software.
Our panel may not have every definitive answer on how to do delivery the best way, but they’ll certainly have some ideas that can help just about any rental company out there.
So we invite you to spend an hour with us this Wednesday May 18 at 2 p.m. Eastern time. You can sign up here: http://rermag.com/webinar/rental-transportation-and-logistics
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.