Ohio’s Franklin Equipment Opens Westerville, Ohio, Branch
Franklin Equipment has opened a new location in Westerville, Ohio, the company’s fifth branch. Franklin offers a large inventory of rental equipment along with retail sales of both new and used construction equipment. The branch will also offer parts and certified technicians to service all equipment brands. Westerville is located in the northeastern suburbs of Columbus, Ohio.
“The Columbus area has been growing quickly and we believe our Franklin Equipment brand of high quality customer service, along with our new rental fleet will benefit this market in many ways,” said Tony Repeta, general manager at Franklin Equipment. “Construction remains strong in the area, which is a good indicator for the demand in equipment purchases and rentals.”
Franklin’s inventory includes backhoes, compact excavators, skid-steer loaders, track loaders, scissorlifts, telehandlers, light equipment, wheel loaders and a wide range of attachments, as well as handheld equipment and safety gear. The Westerville branch will also offer full lines of Wacker Neuson construction equipment, Skyjack aerial work platforms and Chicago Pneumatic equipment.
Onsite service is available 24 hours per day, seven days a week by certified technicians. The new location will be managed by Peter Gallant, who joins Franklin with nine years of rental experience.
Franklin Equipment is headquartered in Groveport, Ohio, and has locations in Dublin, Newcomerstown and now Westerville, Ohio, and another in Indianapolis.
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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.