H&E Equipment Services Inc. has opened a new rental branch in Fresno, Calif., bringing the number of H&E California facilities to 11.
The 10,000-square-foot facility sits on six acres with a fully fenced yard area, offices, parts warehouse, and a repair shop with five service bays. It offers a variety of construction and general industrial equipment and joins the H&E facility in Lodi in serving central California and the San Joaquin Valley.
“This new location just off the Golden State Highway will provide even greater coverage for our central California customers, especially when paired with nearby H&E facilities,” said branch manager Ed Sollid. “Fresno will bridge the gap between our Lodi branch to the north and the Bakersfield location to the south. Centrally locating this new facility is about taking care of our loyal customers in Merced, Mariposa, Fresno, Kings, and Tulare counties, but we can also now reach farther and invite others to experience the H&E difference too. We have built a team that is customer-oriented, aggressive, and running on all cylinders. We are like a well-oiled machine that is built to last. We’re ready to assist with any project in the area, including highway, rail, and commercial construction.”
The branch specializes in rental of aerial lifts, telescopic forklifts, earthmoving machinery, compaction equipment, generators, compressors, and more and represents the following manufacturers: Atlas Copco, Blue Diamond, Bobcat, Bomag, Case, Club Car, Doosan, Gehl, Generac Mobile, Genie, Hamm, Hy-Brid Lifts, JCB, JLG, John Deere, Kubota, LayMor, Ledwell, Lincoln Electric, Link-Belt Excavators, MEC, Miller, Multiquip, Okada, Polaris, Skyjack, SkyTrak, Sullair, Sullivan-Palatek, Takeuchi, Towmaster Trailers, Valew, Wacker Neuson, Yanmar, and others.
In addition to a large rental equipment fleet, the facility provides expanded new and used equipment sales, parts availability within 24 hours for most items, in-shop and mobile service repairs, training, and other value-added services.
Founded in 1961, H&E Equipment Services is one of the largest equipment rental companies in the nation, No. 8 on the RER 100. Branches are located 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.
About the Author
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.