NESCO Rentals, a North American leader in rental and sales of specialized equipment, as well as parts, tools and accessories, is changing its name to NESCO Specialty Rentals. The name change reflects the company's continued commitment to providing specialized equipment to the transmission and distribution markets, as well as increased investment and growth in the specialized assets needed to support the telecom, rail and other markets NESCO operates in.
"The new name – NESCO Specialty Rentals – is a reflection of our long-time primary focus, to supply and support the specialty equipment needs of our T&D customer base,” said Lee Jacobson, CEO of NESCO Specialty Rentals. “In recent years, we have added telecommunications and rail to our focus markets and broadened our specialty equipment portfolio to match the needs of these markets. As a company with its roots in specialty equipment rental, sales and service, we are committed to deliver products and services that will help each of our customers in these target markets address the complex needs of their applications."
NESCO Specialty Rentals is a provider to the utility, transmission and distribution, rail and telecommunication industries, providing bucket trucks and other specialized aerial devices, boom trucks, cranes, digger derricks, pressure drills, stringing gear, hi-rail equipment, repair parts, tools and accessories. NESCO maintains one of the industry’s largest specialty equipment rental fleets, PTA inventories and service networks in North America.
The new name is effective immediately and will be implemented across the company's product and services throughout the calendar year 2018.
NESCO Specialty Rentals has more than 50 locations in the U.S. and Canada, more than 30 years of industry experience, and is an authorized distributor for manufacturers such as Terex, Hogg & Davis, Versalift, ETI, and Manitex to name a few. NESCO is No. 18 on the RER 100 and is based in Fort Wayne, Ind.
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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.