American Rental Association Launches RentalHQ Mobile App
The American Rental Association has launched a new mobile app called RentalHQ, designed to make finding local rental equipment and rental partners fast and easy for construction contractors and professionals. RentalHQ.com is now available as a mobile app. The app features easy-to-use search functions, ARA said, with fields for equipment type and location. Searches deliver a list of local ARA-member rental partners carrying the equipment, such as mobile elevating work platforms, scaffolding, loaders, backhoes, dump trucks and mini-excavators, with mapped location, contact information and a website link for each store.
With the new RentalHQ app, finding rental construction equipment can be done right from the jobsite. Whether working in town or traveling in the field, contractors can locate reliable rental partners in the area when equipment is needed now. The app functions seamlessly with Wi-Fi and data connection so you don’t need to worry about signal strength in the field. The RentalHQ app is available for both Apple and Android users.
“Contractors are busy people who don’t have time to search for rental equipment when it’s needed now,” said Debby Schaller, vice president of marketing for ARA. “Our purpose with the RentalHQ app is to provide technology that makes the equipment rental experience as easy, fast and reliable as possible. By using the app, construction professionals will be quickly matched with nearby rental partners they can work with for a clean and safe rental experience.”
In addition to the search functions, app users will also find helpful articles and tips on equipment best practices with new topics being added often.
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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.