Adam Houseknecht Named President of Best Line Equipment

Pennsylvania-based rental company Best Line Equipment has named Adam Houseknecht its new president, according to the company’s website. His father, Michael Houseknecht, who founded the company 31 years ago, will continue as CEO.

Michael Roth

Jan. 22, 2017

Houseknecht gained valuable equipment industry expertise working for several years in sales and marketing at Ingersoll Rand and Bosch Rexroth. He has worked for the past 11 years in various capacities at Best Line, working in operations, general management, sales and marketing, with the intention of eventually running the family-owned business.

“Best Line Equipment is an incredible company and I am excited to continue the tradition of success,” Houseknecht said. “It’s an organization of talented and well-trained professionals who have a passion for equipment, and the customers who use it. While working to preserve a culture that believes hard work breeds success, I hope to serve by providing them the support and tools they need to achieve it.”

Houseknecht is also president of the Endurance Organization, a non-profit formed by Best Line and McCrossin Inc., to raise funds for support of veterans.

Based in West Chester, Pa., Best Line Equipment has 13 locations.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

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.