Franklin Equipment Expands to Nashville

Franklin Equipment has opened a new branch in Nashville, Tenn., giving it branch locations in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
June 19, 2017

Franklin Equipment has opened a new branch in Nashville, Tenn., giving it branch locations in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Wisconsin. Franklin Equipment’s rental fleet includes backhoes, skid-steer and track loaders, compact excavators, scissorlifts, telehandlers, light equipment, wheel loaders and a wide range of attachments, along with handheld equipment and safety gear.

“We are excited to enter the Tennessee area markets and increase our coverage area for our valued regional customers,” said Troy Gabriel, owner of Franklin Equipment. “Our customers will find our fleet to be the newest equipment available from our equipment suppliers.”

Franklin Equipment has been renting and selling equipment, offering parts and servicing equipment since 2008. The company was founded in early 2008 by four partners – Gary Gabriel, Troy Gabriel, Tom Richardson and Tony Repeta. The fleet includes construction and agricultural equipment from New Holland, road building and construction equipment from Wacker Neuson, aerial lifts from Skyjack, power tools from Chicago Pneumatic and more.

The company is headquartered in Groveport, Ohio.

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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.

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