JCB Donates $300,000 Worth of Equipment for Hurricane Matthew Cleanup Work

Nov. 23, 2016

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JCB is contributing a 437 wheel loader pictured and a 3CX backhoe to help with cleanup efforts in the Savannah Ga area after Hurricane Matthew caused nearly 100 million in damage in Georgia alone — JCB is contributing a 437 wheel loader (pictured) and a 3CX backhoe to help with clean-up efforts in the Savannah, Ga., area after Hurricane Matthew caused nearly $100 million in damage in Georgia alone.

JCB North America has made more than $300,000 worth of equipment available to assist with clean-up efforts in the Savannah, Ga., area, which sustained significant damage from Hurricane Matthew in early October. Preliminary estimates say that the hurricane caused nearly $100 million worth of property damage in the state of Georgia alone.

JCB has offered the use of a 3CX backhoe loader and a 437 wheel loader for cleanup efforts.

“As a global organization, JCB has assisted with relief efforts in a number of countries over the years,” said Arjun Mirdha, JCB North America president and CEO. “The residents of Savannah include our employees, our friends and our neighbors here in the United States. After seeing and experiencing the devastation left behind by Hurricane Matthew firsthand, we knew that we wanted to help Savannah and the surrounding area recover as quickly as possible.”

Following a hurricane, heavy equipment is required to clear tree and building debris from roads and driveways. Bryan County, Ga., just south of Savannah, received a JCB 3CX backhoe with a thumb attachment that grips against the machine’s bucket to help it pick up and move objects more efficiently. The JCB 437 wheel loader went to the city of Pooler, Ga., where it has been used to haul large quantities of brush and other debris to dump sites.

In recent years, JCB has made equipment available to support relief and rebuilding efforts after earthquakes in Ecuador, Nepal, Indonesia, Chile, Pakistan and Haiti and relief efforts in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.

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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.