Two days after opening a branch in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, H&E Rentals opened another in Springfield, Mo., its fourth general rental location in Missouri. H&E operates in 32 states, and it has opened 24 new branches across the country and acquired nine others since the second quarter of last year.
“This new location in the Show-Me State – along with our existing Kansas City and Columbia facilities and our Tulsa, Oklahoma, branch – increases our available fleet inventory across western Missouri,” said branch manager Ryan Draffen. “We can now more efficiently serve customers along the Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas state lines over to Rolla and Highway 63 in central Missouri, as well as all points in between. We’re located just south of where I-44 meets Highway 65, giving us quick access to major thoroughfares to move equipment to customer job sites. We look forward to establishing new relationships and demonstrating our higher standard of service.”
The Springfield branch specializes in the rental of aerial lifts, earthmoving equipment, telescopic forklifts, compaction equipment, generators, light towers, compressors, and more and represents the following manufacturers: Allmand, Atlas Copco, Bomag, Case, Club Car, Cushman, Doosan, Gehl, Generac Mobile, Genie, Hamm, Hilti, Husqvarna, JCB, JLG, John Deere, Kobelco, Kubota, LayMor, Ledwell, Lincoln Electric, Link-Belt Excavators, MEC, Miller, Multiquip, Polaris, Sany, Skyjack, SkyTrak, Sullair, Sullivan-Palatek, Tag, Towmaster, Unicarriers, Wacker Neuson, Yanmar, and others.
Founded in 1961, H&E is one of the largest equipment rental companies in the nation, No. 6 on the RER 100.
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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.