National Lift Truck Donates People and Equipment for Breast Cancer
National Lift Truck, Franklin Park, Ill.-based material handling equipment distributor, sponsored the Susan G. Komen Chicago Lombard Race for the Cure recently at the Yorktown Center in Lombard, Ill. Aisha Awan and Kelly Knoop, National Lift Truck employees, donated their time to the cause for the entire day while National Lift Truck contributed a Clark pink forklift and a Clark utility vehicle to be used by the organizers for the duration of the event.
The Race for the Cure Series is the largest series of 5K run/fitness walks in the world. Up to 75 percent of net proceeds raised by the race are dedicated to fighting breast cancer locally in the Chicagoland metropolitan area. The remaining 25 percent of net proceeds raised are contributed to the Komen Grants Program for funding of research.
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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.