Trench and traffic safety equipment rental and sales specialist National Trench Safety has opened a new branch in Tucson, Ariz. The Tucson branch will be managed by Gene Nowlan, a seasoned trench safety veteran.
“Tucson is an important market as we look to strengthen our Arizona and Western footprint,” said Ron Chilton, president of NTS. “Tucson is a large, growing city that has a significant amount of potential for our trench and traffic safety businesses. We’re responding to market needs and a clear request from our customers for NTS support in the greater Tucson area.”
Chilton said Nowland “took over our Phoenix branch earlier in the year and has done a tremendous job increasing the branch’s performance and profitability. Gene has a strong track record managing multiple locations, as well as leading cold starts, and we anticipate strong results from the Tucson market.”
Chilton added that the Tucson market will allow the company to further strengthen its position in Phoenix through increased fleet availability and sharing between the two markets.
The Tucson branch is the 28th location for NTS in the United States. The national footprint allows NTS to provide its national, regional and local market customers a fully integrated, national branch network delivering unique engineered solutions and the cost-effective shoring solutions.
NTS plans to open two or three additional branches in 2016.
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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.