Paul Burkholder of McClelland Marketing has joined the ARA of Iowa board of directors as associate member director. Having influenced today’s ARA state chapter president to get involved in the association a decade ago, Burkholder says he loves...

Tom Friedman, manager, Got You Cover’d, San Luis Obispo, Calif., had never attended an ARA of California event or ever seen a baseball game from a suite. So, when he heard about the Aug. 16 ARA of California’s Night at the Ballpark at Angel...

Rental Equipment Investment Corp. (REIC), Kalispell, Mont., a portfolio company of Kinderhook Industries, has acquired Blackout Energy Services, Williston, N.D., a provider of specialty rental equipment specializing in flameless heaters and light...

Keith Kitchens, CERP, vice president, Tomball Rental Center, Tomball, Texas, whose family has been part of the Texas rental community since 1977 and who has been a member of the Texas Rental Association (TRA) board since 2018, is eager to now...

The year was 1954. Don E. Castling’s father and grandparents jumped on the relatively new rental bandwagon by establishing AAA U-Rent-It, a small business in Fort Smith, Ark. Sixty-eight years later, the equipment offerings have changed, but the...

Stephen Naleway, general manager, Events Plus, Conroe, Texas, has been in the event rental industry for the past 22 years, but he never had the chance to attend the TRA Roundup until June 27-28 at the family-friendly Margaritaville Lake Conroe...