Grand Rental True Value in Houma, La., Reaches 35 Years in Business
Grand Rental True Value’s equipment rental store in Houma, La., has reached the milestone of 35 years in operation, the company said. Owner and founder Pat Pierron sold his store in 2007, only to re-purchase it a few years later. The store offers a wide range of rental and retail products as well as small engine repair, knife sharpening and delivery.
The branch’s rental inventory features air compressors, compaction equipment, concrete equipment, light towers, floorcare machines, landscaping equipment, scaffolding, drain-cleaning machines, pressures washers, pumps, welders, skid-steer loaders, and more.
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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.