Acme lift Names New Senior VP of National Accounts

Acme Lift Co. has promoted Chelsea Myrick Long to senior vice president of national accounts at Acme Lift Co., the world’s largest wholesale rental company specializing in the biggest boomlifts, telehandlers and portable air compressors.

Michael Roth

Feb. 18, 2018

2 min read

Chelsea Myrick Long who grew up in the rental industry takes over as senior vice president of national accounts for Acme Lift — Chelsea Myrick Long, who grew up in the rental industry, takes over as senior vice president of national accounts for Acme Lift.

“Chelsea is one of our most effective members of the Acme Lift team, and her strengths will allow her to lead our national account initiatives,” said Woody Weld, Acme Lift chairman and CEO. “The top 10 national rental companies each have unique needs and Chelsea will create responsive strategic relationships, which make Acme Lift more valuable to our largest customers.”

Long is a 16-year equipment rental industry veteran. She had been senior vice president of western operations for Acme lift since 2016. She was hired in 2014 as a rental coordinator in the company’s rental operations center, called the War Room, in Mesa, Ariz.

She began her career in 2002 as a rental coordinator for her father’s company, Diamondback Rentals & Sales. He later sold the company to the Papé Group, where Long was a senior rental department administrator until 2016. She then moved to Eugene, Ore., where she was an accounts receivable specialist for the Papé Group and rental manager for Papé Machinery in southern Oregon, and later worked for Papé Material Handling.

Acme Lift has the largest selection of large boomlifts reaching up to 185 feet, the latest 8,000- to 40,000-pound telehandlers, and large portable air compressors for re-rent at daily, weekly or monthly rates. Acme Lift is No. 51 on the RER 100.

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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.