TVH in the Americas, a provider of replacement parts and accessories for the material handling and equipment industries, has opened a new distribution center in Portland, Ore.
TVH in the Americas, a provider of replacement parts and accessories for the material handling and equipment industries, has opened a new distribution center in Portland, Ore. TVH will now offer one-day ground service from the Portland location to all of Oregon and parts of Washington and Idaho. TVH will also service a wide range of customers in two- and three-day UPS Ground shipping.
With the addition of the Portland distribution center, TVH will cover 92 percent of the industrial truck population in one-day ground service with more than 39 million parts. TVH offers more than 39 million products from 15 locations in the Americas.
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.
