Target Rental, Durango, Colo., has opened a new rental center in Cortez, Colo., its website reports. Target also operates Bobcat of Durango & Cortez, Colo. Target acquired Bobcat of Durango in 2011.
The new rental center is located at 1480 Industrial Road in Cortez. Local newspaper The Journal reported that the branch has a staff of five with three new hires.
The rental fleet includes excavators, skid steers, man lifts, shooting boom forklifts, farm tractors and implements, cement mixers, ground thaw heaters, compaction equipment, and wood chippers.
Target also carries smaller rental equipment and rental tools for homeowners and remodelers, including concrete saws and breakers, air compressors, flooring tools, plumbing and electrical tools, landscaping equipment and scaffold equipment.
The shop sells a variety of construction and safety supplies and dispenses propane to contractors and weekend barbecuers.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, store manager Steve Webb has organized a food drive from May 1-22 to help families. Target Rental will match $1 for every canned good or dollar donated up to $5,000.
In addition, the Cortez Target Rental plans to donate 15% of rental fees on one of their new excavators to a local charity. The organization’s logo would be put on the excavator.
Webb added that the business adheres to state guidelines to prevent the coronavirus. Staff wear facial masks, machines are disinfected before they go out and after they return, and the shop is regularly cleaned.
For the complete article in The Journal, visit: https://the-journal.com/articles/175419
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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.