BlueLine Rental Launches Skyjack Telematics System in North America

Skyjack has started delivering off-the-line machines equipped with Elevate, its telematics solution for off-highway fleets, and BlueLine Rental is its North American launch customer.
April 4, 2018
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Skyjack has started delivering off-the-line machines equipped with Elevate, its telematics solution for off-highway fleets, and BlueLine Rental is its North American launch customer. As a long-standing Skyjack customer, BlueLine seized the opportunity after hearing Skyjack’s approach to telematics. The rental company has ordered Elevate on all Skyjack units for 2018.

The solution includes two mobile-first apps, Elevate On and Elevate Go, which will enable BlueLine personnel to digitally access critical fleet data directly from the field.

“Elevate is a project we’ve been living and breathing for the past year and to see such a positive reception from rental companies, and to be able to provide them with an immediate impact, is extremely rewarding,” said David Swan, product manager of technology and innovation at Skyjack.

“At BlueLine Rental, we believe in working with each of our OEM partners on technology, as OEMs play an important part in successfully integrating telematics into the rental industry,” said Rob Blackadar, vice president of operations at BlueLine Rental. “Skyjack’s approach to telematics will be industry-leading, solidifying our decision to include Elevate on all of our Skyjack machines going forward.”

The adoption of telematics with a mobile first approach is an example of a leading practice offered by Elevate, which bolsters rental companies’ commitment to pragmatic technology, and improves business processes.

For more information about Elevate, visit: www.skyjack.com/elevate.

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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.

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