Compact equipment manufacturer Takeuchi-US has hired Scott Place as director of national accounts to oversee current national rental accounts and potential large fleet buyers.
Scott Place is Takeuchi's new director of national accounts.
Compact equipment manufacturer Takeuchi-US has hired Scott Place as director of national accounts to oversee current national rental accounts and potential large fleet buyers. Place has more than 20 years of experience managing rental locations, dealer locations, and most recently the rental industry’s largest national accounts. Place will be working out of Takeuchi’s U.S. headquarters in Pendergrass, Ga.
“Scott’s experience in the construction equipment and rental industry has spanned two decades and will prove to be instrumental in growing our rental business,” said Clay Eubanks, president, Takeuchi-US. “We have confidence that Scott’s performance will be valuable for both us and our clients and that he will help continue to grow the Takeuchi brand. We’re very excited to welcome him aboard.”
Takeuchi manufactures excavators, skid-steer loaders, track loaders, wheel loaders and more. Visit www.takeuchi-us.com for more information.
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.
