United Rentals Presents Skyjack with Supplier of the Year Award
Skyjack division of Linamar Corp. was honored by the world’s largest rental company, United Rentals, with the 2025 Supplier of the Year Award. Skyjack has a positive and longstanding relationship with United Rentals and has worked closely with it to reliably help customers increase performance and productivity on diverse worksites. United Rentals last month presented Skyjack with the award at its annual supplier show, this year in St. Louis from January 10 to 11. It was the third time Skyjack has won the award.
“We are pleased to recognize Skyjack as our Supplier of the Year,” said T.J. Mahoney, vice president supply chain, United Rentals. “As a valued equipment partner, they have consistently demonstrated a high standard of quality, reliability, and operational excellence. Their commitment to meeting our business requirements, supporting our rental fleet, and maintaining a strong collaborative partnership has contributed meaningfully to our continued success. We appreciate their dedication and professionalism and look forward to our continued partnership.”
“Our team understands the importance of helping our customers meet their business goals and we are so humbled to receive this award from a company that offers such a large array of equipment from many outstanding suppliers,” said George Fitchett, senior vice president of national accounts for Skyjack. “We appreciate this recognition of our entire team’s passion for delivering simply reliable equipment and exceptional customer support.”
Skyjack and United Rentals are industry leaders with shared values, including a commitment to safety, using innovation to better serve customers, and leading by example.
“2025 was a challenging year for the industry, but the Skyjack team dug deep to consistently focus on customer needs, offer flexibility and responsiveness, deliver first-class product support, and successfully develop innovative products,” said Charlie Patterson, Skyjack’s president. “We place high value on relationships with our customers, and we are very grateful for the privilege of earning this award.”
United Rentals previously recognized Skyjack as the Supplier of the Year in 2012 and 2018. Learn more about United Rentals at www.unitedrentals.com.
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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.