H&E Equipment Services Opens New Birmingham, Ala., Facility
Effective today, March 2, H&E Equipment Services Inc. has opened a new branch in Bessemer, Ala., serving the Birmingham market.
The 26,500-square-foot facility sits on 5.5 acres with a fully fenced yard area, offices, parts warehouse, and a repair shop with 10 service bays. The facility is capable of servicing a variety of construction and general industrial equipment. It joins the existing H&E crane facility in serving the Birmingham area and is the fifth full-service Alabama branch.
The branch specializes in aerial lifts, telescopic forklifts, earthmoving machinery, compaction equipment, generators, compressors, and more and represents the following manufacturers: Allmand, Atlas Copco, Blue Diamond, Bomag, Gehl, Generac, Genie, Hamm, JCB, JLG, John Deere, LBX, LayMor, MEC, Miller, Multiquip, Okada, Skyjack, SkyTrak, Sullair, Takeuchi, UniCarriers, and Yanmar.
“As construction continues to grow in the Birmingham metro area, we are excited to dedicate the resources and open our second branch in the market to better service our customers’ equipment needs,” said Joe Scherzinger, regional vice president. “As our slogan says, ‘We’re an equipment company, run by equipment people.’ Although our resources are vast, we take a personal approach and are dedicated to working with customers to best help them with their needs.”
In addition to equipment rentals, the facility provides new and used equipment sales, in-shop and mobile service, comprehensive parts availability, training, and other value-added services.
Established in 1961, H&E is one of the largest equipment distributors and rental companies in the United States, No. 8 on the RER 100. Including the Birmingham branch, H&E has 94 locations throughout the Pacific Northwest, West Coast, Intermountain, Southwest, Gulf Coast, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions. For more information about H&E Equipment Services, visit www.HE-equipment.com.
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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.