Atlas Crane Appoints Equipment Industry Veteran Bobby Creason CEO
Atlas Crane Service LLC, a national crane, rigging, and heavy haul provider, announced the appointment of Bobby Creason as its new CEO. Creason is replacing Charles Kent, who is looking to spend more time with his family and explore opportunities closer to his home in California.
Focusing on renewable energy and heavy industrial infrastructure, Atlas has grown into a pre-eminent service provider for sophisticated construction and maintenance projects. As demand has increased, Atlas has expanded with new yards and grown its state-of-the-art fleet.
Creason noted that he is eager to build upon Atlas’ existing accomplishments, while at the same time “providing the guidance and direction from somebody with nearly 30 years of experience with current customers and prospects.”
Most recently Creason was CEO of United Site Services in Boise, Idaho. He was also president and CEO of Booth Machinery; Western regional vice president for BlueLine Rental, and held numerous positions with Volvo Rents.
Atlas Crane was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Aurora, Ill. Atlas is a full-service crane, rigging, and heavy haul provider offering transportation, maintenance, repair, and overhaul solutions to more than 250 customers throughout the United States. Atlas has a diverse fleet of trucks, trailers, all-terrain, rough terrain, hydraulic, crawler and tele-crawler cranes, along with additional value-added services including skilled operators for all rentals, transportation, heavy haul, subcontracted labor coordination, engineering, and permitting.
To learn more, visit atlascrane.com.
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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.