Runnion Equipment Co. is growing its product line by expanding its Knapheide truck body offerings. Runnion Equipment has been utilizing Knapheide bodies for its National Crane boom trucks and Palfinger knucklebooms for many years. Now, with its recent expansion, the company has the room and capability to expand into the sales and upfitting of service/utility bodies and dump bodies, supplied by Knapheide.
“This is an exciting opportunity for us,” said Michael Prochot, president of Runnion Equipment. “Knapheide is a first-class family owned company with an outstanding product line. Our intent when building our new facility was to give us space to stretch by utilizing the skills we have honed over the years in servicing and mounting truck-mounted cranes as a steppingstone to other upfitting markets. We are very pleased that Knapheide is giving us this opportunity to represent them as a full line dealer.”
Knapheide Manufacturing Co. is a manufacturer of truck bodies and truck beds and provides customers with quality service utility bodies, platform bodies, gooseneck bodies, and dump bodies.
Runnion Equipment is based in Hodgkins, Ill.
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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.