Sarah Wilper, executive vice president, Taylor Rental Center, Manchester, Conn., and incoming American Rental Association (ARA) Region One director, has observed significant shifts in the industry’s dynamics across the northeast.

Equipment rental revenue, comprised of the construction/industrial and general tool segments, is expected to grow by 3.4 percent in 2023 to reach a record total of nearly $57.7 billion, topping the nearly $55.8 billion recorded in 2022, according to the latest forecast released in early November by the American Rental Association (ARA).

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, will go down as one of the most interesting elections in our recent history.

For the 10th consecutive year in the September issue, Rental Management presents our “12 to watch under 40” featuring a group of young professionals under the age of 40 who have become active participants in managing and running rental businesses as well as participating in industry activities at the local, state and national levels.

Quality, in part, could be considered “a product or service free of deficiencies” — which is how the American Society for Quality (ASQ) defines the word. And in construction, as well as equipment rental, quality often is associated with manufacturing and the pursuit of producing a physical product with zero defects.