Rent or Buy?
Across North America, Companies are Increasing Rental and Purchase of Equipment
It’s an ages-old question in the construction business: should we rent equipment or should we buy it?

Financing Creates Opportunity
LaSalle National Leasing Corporation provides middle- to large-ticket equipment financing for commercial and municipal entities in North America.

Service and Diversification Build Strength
The Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation fleet is one of the strongest in the nation, with a product line that ranges from small hand-held tools to large earthmovers. The company has a network of 259 locations in the U.S. and Canada, offering a variety of rental and purchase options.

Customer Service Leads the Way
The United Rentals, Inc. is North America’s largest equipment rental company, offering everything from heavy machinery to power tools. The company is also one of the largest resellers of used equipment.

Customer Service a Focus
Rental Service Corp. fulfills the rental and sales demands of the construction, industrial/petrochemical, manufacturing, government and homeowner markets in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Poised for Growth and Focused on Access
JLG Industries is the worldwide market leader in sales of aerial work platforms. Recent acquisition of the SkyTrak and Lull product lines also solidifies the company as the North American leader—and one of the top three companies worldwide—in telescopic material handlers.

Specializing for Success
Essex Crane Rental Corp. is the world’s largest provider of Manitowoc lattice-boom crawler cranes and attachments. With more than 480 cranes and attachments in its fleet, the company supplies equipment for projects in many facets of the construction industry.

Advantage: Specialization
Red-D-Arc Welderentals, with 40 locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, operates the welding-equipment rental division of Airgas, Inc., the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, welding, safety and related products.

Hard Work, Customer Focus Bring Success
Lewis Equipment is the second largest tower crane and personnel/material hoist rental company in the U.S. Sister company Rock Island Rigging, LP is the largest rigger of tower cranes and hoists in the U.S. Rock Island works around the country, utilizing Lewis Equipment’s roof-top derricks to provide complete rigging services to customers.