Case Dealer Diamond Equipment Supports Team Rubicon in Tennessee Cleanup
Case Construction Equipment dealer Diamond Equipment is currently supporting Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster response organization, in numerous operations in Tennessee after a series of tornadoes and heavy storms moved through the region in March and April. Diamond has provided equipment to Team Rubicon’s heavy equipment team for debris removal and cleanup in two separate operations based in Cookeville and Chattanooga.
Case also supported Team Rubicon with equipment at another cleanup operation after a tornado swept through Louisiana in April. The operation supported by Diamond Equipment in Chattanooga is ongoing, while the operation in White and Putnam counties helped complete 45 work orders at homes and businesses, removing more than 5,500 cubic yards of debris and helping businesses and homeowners move forward.
“It takes a community to come together and help each other in times like these and we’re inspired by the efforts Team Rubicon has taken to clean up Tennessee as we deal with these natural disasters as well as the current health situation in our country,’ said Bob Brucken, vice president, Diamond Equipment. “We’re here to support the community and provide resources to those who rebuild and are honored to work with Team Rubicon to keep Tennessee moving forward.”
“Diamond Equipment has always been there for the people of Tennessee, and their equipment matched with the work ethic and drive of Team Rubicon is a great example of how Case and the construction industry supports local communities when they need it most,” said George Preocanin, vice president – North America, Case Construction Equipment.
To learn more about the relationship between Case and Team Rubicon, and how Team Rubicon uses heavy equipment in disaster response operations throughout North America, visit CaseCE.com/TeamRubicon.
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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.