Manitou, world leader in all-terrain material handling equipment, has named Able Equipment Rental to the Manitou dealer network. Able Equipment Rental will partner with Manitou to sell the heavy capacity telescopic handlers and rotating telescoping handlers, at its Deer Park, N.K., and Philadephia locations.
“We are proud to have Able Equipment Rental Inc. join our Manitou dealer network,” said Chris Mathis, Manitou Americas director of sales and marketing. “Able Equipment Rental is a major supplier of rental prpducts to the industrial and construction equipment market and we are confident that given their track record in the market, they will provide expert sales, service and parts for Manitou equipment.”
“We’re very excited to be adding a well-respected, high quality brand like Manitou and are honored to be part of their dealer network. We look forward to a valued partnership along with offering key Manitou products and exceptional customer service to Able’s growing list of customers.”
Founded in 1996, Able Equipment Rental is a northeast regional leader in the construction equipment industry with locations in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Able offers an extensive range of aerial, material handling and earthmoving equipment; power generators and power distribution; mobile HVAC, lighting and air compression units; truck trailers, atrium lifts and other special-purpose heavy duty equipment plus equipment service, parts, inspection, maintenance, refurbishment and transportation. Able is an authorized rental and sales representative for many manufacturers.
Able Equipment Rentals, No. 69 on the RER 100, will represent Manitou heavy telescopic handlers (MHT product line) and Manitou rotating telehandlers (MRT product line.)
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Michael Roth
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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.