INDUSTRY UPDATE HULING TO MANAGE TAKEUCHI’S TECHNICAL SERVICE TRAINING DEPARTMENT
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Joseph Huling, the national service and warranty manager for Takeuchi-US, is now overseeing the company’s technical service training department. Huling joined Takeuchi in 2017 as a regional service manager before being promoted to national service and warranty manager in early 2020. In his expanded role, Huling will support the company’s corporate sales efforts by providing product, training and support for Takeuchi’s dealers, distributors and customers. Huling’s responsibilities include developing curriculums, improving training methods, scheduling training, managing the technical training team and ensuring that the new Takeuchi Global University continues to grow and improve. Before joining Takeuchi, Huling was general manager of Star Equipment and Rental in Mount Airy, Ga., where he gained experience selling, renting and servicing residential and small commercial equipment from national brands.
DURANTE RENTALS OPENS NY LOCATION
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Durante Rentals, a construction equipment rental company, is opening a new location in Queens, N.Y., to increase its capacity to serve the New York metro. The 68,000-square-foot property provides a central location for the company and improves its ability to serve the civil infrastructure, heavy highway work and high-rise construction contractors in New York City. “This new hub will be instrumental in providing us with greater operational efficiencies,” says Anthony Durante, CEO of Durante Rentals. “After a three-year search for the right location, the timing coincides with our unionization in June. In anticipation of infrastructure rebuilding, we are now poised to play a major role in the development of our great city and beyond.”
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LGMG North America is entering 2022 with a change in leadership. Eric Liner replaced Craig Paylor as president/CEO of the North American company effective Jan. 1, as Paylor has retired. Additionally, Rusty Kaylor, former senior vice president, retired effective Dec. 31. Paylor and Kaylor are known within the MEWP industry with careers that span decades. Paylor led multiple companies and has mentored many of the industries’ current leaders. Kaylor built numerous rental companies over his career. He went on to praise Mr. Kaylor, “Rusty has played an integral role in the growth of our North American business operations having drawn upon decades of success within the equipment rental industry. We greatly appreciate Rusty’s contribution to our success as well.” Paylor and Kaylor will consult for the company. Liner joined LGMG North America in August 2021 as
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senior vice president of national accounts. He has spent more than 20 years in the construction equipment industry, mostly with access and material handling equipment manufacturers. His most recent position prior to LGMG was executive vice president, Skyjack Americas, responsible for all Skyjacks’ commercial business activities in North, Central, and South America. LGMG was founded in 2019.
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