Toro Co. recently hosted horizontal directional drilling contractors and equipment dealers from across the United States at its corporate headquarters in Bloomington, Minn., to help identify customer challenges and discuss solutions that could potentially lead to future innovations to Toro’s HDD equipment segment. In addition to general discussion, the event featured hands-on equipment demonstrations.
Attendees were given the opportunity to operate Toro’s HDD equipment, including its new TDOS1 drill operating system and the DD 4050. The agenda also included sessions regarding best practices in the industry, and tours of Toro headquarters and product development facilities.
“Regardless of whether or not these are current users of Toro HDD units, we are always interested in learning from professionals in the industry and sharing ideas on how to make their jobs easier,” said Joshua Beddow, marketing manager at The Toro Co. “We have always been a company focused on the needs of customers and developing solutions that help create efficiencies on the jobsite.”
The Toro HDD Forum also provided an opportunity for networking and general information sharing among experienced contractors in the horizontal directional drilling segment.
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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.