Gallery: Franklin Equipment Adds Cincinnati, Dayton and Milwaukee Locations

Aug. 25, 2016

Frankin Equipment, based in Groveport, Ohio, is continuing its growth with a new store opening this week in Cincinnati, plus a grand opening today in Dayton, Ohio, for a store the company opened June 15. Also Franklin Equipment opened a branch in Milwaukee last month and will hold a grand opening Sept. 16. Franklin Equipment now has eight locations, including Columbus, Newcomerstown and Dublin, Ohio, as well as recently opened Westerville, Ohio, and Indianapolis.

“We are extremely excited to enter these new markets and continue to increase our coverage area for our valued regional customers,” said Troy Gabriel, owner of Franklin Equipment.

Franklin Equipment’s rental fleet includes backhoes, skid-steer loaders, track loaders, compact excavators, scissorlifts, telehandlers, light equipment, wheel loaders and a wide range of attachments along with handheld equipment and safety gear. The full lines of Wacker Neuson construction equipment, Skyjack aerial equipment and Chicago Pneumatic products are available at all eight of the Franklin Equipment rental centers. The company also offers construction and agriculture equipment from New Holland, landscaping equipment from Woods and Husqvarna, attachments from Paladin, drilling and hand tools from Tamco, and more.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

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.