United Rentals today announced its annual Blue Thursday used equipment sale will take place on Thursday, November 21 at more than 100 company locations in the U.S. and Canada. United Rentals has available for sale over 13,000 products that address worksite needs for construction, industrial and municipal organizations.
The Blue Thursday equipment inventory was originally sourced from top-tier OEM manufacturers and can be reviewed at https://used.unitedrentals.com/. Items for sale include hand tools, light towers and generators, forklifts and material handling equipment, aerial work platforms and large equipment, such as earthmoving machines.
The Blue Thursday sale also includes specialty equipment, such as temporary power and HVAC applications and a variety of pumps. All equipment has received regular maintenance from United Rentals.
“With more than 4,000 cat-classes of well-maintained equipment to meet worksite needs, there’s never been a better time to purchase used equipment,” said Paul McDonnell, executive vice president, and chief commercial officer, United Rentals. “With the end of the calendar year approaching, companies have the extra advantage of creating additional tax savings by purchasing needed equipment.”
United Rentals offers customers the United Guard extended warranty program which provides bumper-to-bumper coverage for components not designed to be replaced during the life of the product, such as motors, transmissions and more. United Rentals also offers a Customer Equipment Servicing program that provides equipment owners with professional inspections, preventative maintenance and repairs by expert United Rentals technicians at customer sites or at the more than 1,000 company branches across North America.
The United Rentals financing program helps buyers finance their purchases, covering all equipment-related costs including warranty and freight.
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.