United Rentals Offers Blue Thursday Used Equipment Sale at 100+ Locations

United Rentals announced its third annual Blue Thursday, a used equipment sale taking place on Thursday, November 29, at more than 100 company locations in the U.S. and Canada.

Michael Roth

Nov. 21, 2018

2 min read

United Rentals is selling more than 16000 pieces of equipment including aerial work platforms on quotBlue Thursdayquot Nov 29 — United Rentals is selling more than 16,000 pieces of equipment, including aerial work platforms, on "Blue Thursday", Nov. 29.

United Rentals announced its third annual Blue Thursday, a used equipment sale taking place on Thursday, November 29, at more than 100 company locations in the U.S. and Canada. United Rentals has made more than 16,000 products available for sale to meet a wide range of construction, industrial and municipal needs.

The Blue Thursday equipment inventory was originally sourced from top-tier manufacturers and can be reviewed at https://used.unitedrentals.com/. Items for sale range from hand tools to large equipment, such as aerial lifts and earthmoving machines.

The company has included specialty equipment for temporary power and HVAC applications, fluid transfer and filtration, and trench safety solutions. All equipment has received regular maintenance from United Rentals, performed to strict OEM standards.

"The end of the calendar year is a great time for companies to leverage tax savings by making equipment purchases,"said Paul McDonnell, executive vice president of sales and specialty operations, United Rentals. “We have many buyers who come back every year to take advantage of these special savings on well-maintained, quality equipment. Any after-sale needs are backed by our extensive service network.”

United Rentals offers the United Guard extended warranty program, providing bumper-to-bumper coverage for components not designed to be replaced during the life of the product, such as motors, transmissions and more. The company also offers a Customer Equipment Servicing program that provides equipment owners with professional inspections, preventive maintenance and repairs by expert United Rentals technicians at customer sites or company branches.

Buyers can choose to finance their purchases with the United Rentals financing program, which covers all equipment-related costs, including warranty and freight.

Based in Stamford, Conn., and No. 1 on the RER 100, United Rentals now has 1,189 branches in North America and 11 in Europe. It operates in 49 states and every Canadian province. It offers about 3,800 classes of equipment for rent with a total original cost of $14.4 billion.

About the Author

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.