Canadian Equipment Rental Corp. president Austin Fraser has resigned his position effective immediately, the company announced. Going forward the responsibilities associated with the role of president will be absorbed by the existing management team.
“Mr. Fraser has agreed to provide certain consulting services through the first quarter of 2017 as needed,” the company said in a statement. Fraser succeeded former president Wayne Wadley as president early in 2016.
CERC did not give a reason for Fraser’s resignation.
The company also said that former chief operating officer Skip Kerr died Dec. 27 after battling various health ailments.
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.
