Able Equipment Rental Acquires Assets and Operations of Mobile Lifts

July 13, 2018

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Able Equipment Rentals acquires aerial rental specialist Mobile Lifts Pictured is Able39s Deer Park NY headquarters — Able Equipment Rentals acquires aerial rental specialist Mobile Lifts. Pictured is Able's Deer Park, N.Y., headquarters.

Able Equipment Rental has purchased the aerial equipment assets and service operations of Mobile Lifts of Norristown, Pa. The transaction will allow the facility to operate as the newest branch of Able Equipment Rental. Able said it will retain most of the current Mobile Lifts staff with plans to grow the team immediately. Mobile Lifts becomes Able Equipment Rental’s fifth branch.

The new branch is 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia, accessible to several major roads and highways. The facility is well-situated to service the King of Prussia, Pa., area and to deliver equipment throughout the region.

“We’re extremely excited to welcome Mobile Lifts to the Able family,” said Steven Laganas, Able CEO. “Their 40-plus-year history along with a very loyal customer base was certainly one of the factors that helped us in our decision-making. I look forward to partnering with Mobile Lifts’ knowledgeable and talented team.”

“Strategically, it will allow us to continue to serve as a reliable provider of aerial equipment for Mobile Lifts’ current commercial and industrial clients,” said Chris Pera, Able’s chief operating officer. “Additionally, we’ll be able to offer a wide range of machines for rent and for sale to fulfill their specific construction equipment requirements.”

Able Equipment Rental, based in Deer Park, N.Y., in Long Island, and has branches in Edison and Pennsauken, N.J., and Honey Brook, Pa. Able Equipment Rental is No. 67 on the RER 100.

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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.