Dutch Forklift Rental Company Buys its First AWPs from Snorkel at Bauma
Dutch rental company Makkina purchased its first three aerial work platforms for its rental fleet at the Bauma show in Munich last month. Omega, the official Snorkel distributor in The Netherlands invited Makkina owner Jos de Koster to attend the massive trade show where he placed an order for two Snorkel electric slab scissorlifts, a S3219E and S4732E, as well as a Snorkel A38E electric articulating boomlift.
Makkina is a forklift rental company focused on the rental, sales and service of forklifts into its local market of Kapelle, near Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The scissorlifts feature Snorkel’s twin-door service trays, providing inside-out access to all of the key machine components, as well as a fixed upper control box, saloon-style entry gates, a dual sheer scissor stack design with upsized pins, proportional descent, upsized kingpins, and a gravity-actuated pothole protection system.
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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.