All Episodes

#176 - Norty Turner: People, Process and the Pursuit of Operational Excellence

#175 - Melissa Hanna: Building the Rental Industry’s Next Generation of Leaders

#174 - Josh Nickell & Elliot Vigil: Innovate or Die - Metrics, AI & the Future of Rental

#173 - Anthony Durante: The Data Revolution and Reinventing Rental Intelligence

#172 - Achille Ettorre: AI Without the Hype - A Practical Roadmap for Business Leaders

#171 - Dan Crowley: Shared Experience, Real Results and Building Better Rental Leaders

#170 - SmartEquip, Texada & RP Rents: Rethinking Equipment Rental Workflows in the Digital Age

#169 - Phil Parker & Andrew Winlow: Inside Sunbelt Rentals’ Strategy for Innovation & Growth

#168 - Brian Richardson: Leadership, Legacy & the Future of Event Rentals

#167 - Linda Carter-Watts: 30 Years of Leadership, Legacy and Industry Impact

#166 - Jeff Crotto: Customer First Leadership in the Event Rental Industry

#165 - Nathan Turner: A Career Forged in Unlikely Places

#164 - Robert Pedersen: A Tool Shed - 80 Years of equipment rental innovation

#163 - Avery Dubose: The Rental Guys Inc

#162 - Tim Doling: POWR2, a global leader in clean energy storage solutions

#161 - Tony Conant: American Rental Association CEO

#160 - Tyler Carroll: HRIA Young Professional of the Year 2024

#159 - Anthony Durante: Building the fastest growing equipment rental business in New York City

#158 - Tony Tye & Erin Blair: Tony Tye & Erin Blair: How AI can help optimize route planning & reduce third party transport costs

#157 - Elliott Vigil: Coaching your sales team in the equipment rental industry

#156 - Tony Symons: Planning for the future after 31 years in the equipment hire industry

#155 - Tony Crane - Hire & Rental Industry Association Life Member

#154 - Tim Helfers - Having a net zero vision as generator & lighting tower manufacturer

#153 - Craig Palmer - Classic Hire, growing to an 8 location equipment hire business in Western Australia

#152 - Gab Robinson - Harry the Hirer, Australia's premier event hire supplier

#151 - Steve Mau - Joining the equipment rental industry by acquiring a small business

#150 - John Bibbo - President Event Source

#149 - David Maxwell & Keith Clarke - United Forklift and Access Solutions & Haulotte Australia

#148 - Brendan Ross - Journey from service tech to owning a service business

#147 - Beth Hoff Blackmer - Aspen Rent-All & 58th ARA President

#146 - Greg Landa: Providing rental solutions to Coachella, NASCAR, Superbowl & Taylor Swift Concerts

#145 - Scott Irwin: President of Delux Rentals & ARA 60th President

#144 - John Jeanguenat: President of RentalMax - 10 locations across Chicago, North West Indiana & South Wisconsin

#143 - Tom Wood: HRIA Young Professional of the Year 2023

#142 - Max Line: Transitioning from hiring equipment to the Director of LGC Equipment Hire

#141 - Matthew Hoy: Kelm Hire, one of Australia's fastest growing equipment hire businesses

#140 - Emmanuel Georgoudis: The NSW President of the Hire & Rental Industry Association

#139 - Kevin Ennis: 35 years of sales experience in the equipment rental industry

#138 - Jeremy Shaw: HRIA National President & Master Hire 33 years in business

#137 - Michael Larsen: International Rental Business Leadership Exchange Program

#136 - Nathan Borg: Head of Digital and Customer Experience at Kennards Hire

#135 - Phil Mause: Equipment rental benchmark & utilization data with Rouse Services

#134 - Kenneth Kimura: Have you ever wondered what rental software United Rentals utilize?

#133 - Justin Walters: Benefits of GPS asset tracking for equipment rental providers

#132 - Jason Morey: The 40th anniversary of Bandit Industries

#131 - Matt Harris: Texada Software CEO

#130 - Tom Trbojevic: Planning a career after a professional sporting career

#129 - Nathan Hogan: Navigating your asset finance in 2023 with iFin Capital

#128 - Dan Cook: JCB unveiling their hydrogen powered combustion engine

#127 - Kylie Quinn & Damien Smith: Navigating insurance in the equipment rental industry

#126 - Gil Milton: The journey with Vortex Hire, Pumps United, Vortex Group of Companies & NPE

#125 - Nathan Mitschuinig: Select Plant Australia & Laing O’Rourke Group

#124 - Gill Dvir: The evolution of Alfasi Group

#123 - Send in your questions & topics for industry leaders to answer

#122 - Tim Nuttall: Learnings from a lifetime in the equipment rental industry

#121 - Dan Clifton: Finding a healthy work-life balance

#120 - Five Ways for a leader to win people's trust

#119 - Chatting with Andrew Satterley: Strategist, author & mentor in the equipment rental industry

#118 - Customer Focused KPI's for your equipment rental business

#117 - Chatting with Alexander Greschner: Bauma 2022 in Munich

#116 - How to measure customer experience in the equipment rental industry

#115 - Chatting With Michael Larsen: HRIA Young Professional of the Year

#114 - Understanding your customers decision making process

#113 - Chatting With Justin Pitts: Hydrogen Powered Generators

#112 - Chatting With Ash Brown: Leaving the equipment rental industry to start Empiraa

#111 - Chatting With John Stewart: Makinex Group CEO

#110 - Chatting With Josh Mosko: Digitizing your equipment rental business

#109 - R U OK? Day - A conversation could change a life

#108 - Chatting With Adam Lawrence: Take the guess work out of buying used equipment

#107 - Chatting With Dan Cook: Baseline Energy Services - Specializing in natural gas generators

#106 - Chatting With Alma Duran: What it is like to work for United Rentals

#105 - Chatting With Alexander Schuessler: The history of SmartEquip

#104 - Chatting With Jamie Haitas: Growing through acquisitions

#103 - Chatting With Cody Stewart: Sunbelt Rentals Product Analytics Manager

#102 - Chatting With Nathan Venables: Kennards Hire Head of Fleet & Procurement

#101 - Chatting With Scott Daly: Taking on the role of JLG General Manager Australia & New Zealand

#100 - Chatting With Pete Maginnis: Makinex Construction Products Episode 1 & 100!

#99 - Chatting With Todd Cane: Starting my own forklift service, hire and sales business

#98 - Chatting With Chris Bradley: Becoming a Volvo Construction Equipment Dealer

#97 - Chatting With Ian Coleman: Conplant - 2022 HRIA Hire Company of the Year

#96 - Chatting With Tom Wood: Learning from the youth in the equipment rental industry

#95 - Chatting With Mark Simonsen: Gary Radford interviewing the host of The Rental Journal Podcast

#94 - Chatting With Glenn Martin: The journey from a Coates Hire mechanic to Ahern Australia Managing Director

#93 - Chatting With Ben Blood: Our customers can now rent equipment & schedule deliveries via our website

#92.5 - Weekly Equipment Rental News: Orange Hire, Hire22, United Rentals Mobile App, Oil-free MEWP

#92 - Chatting With Federica Gargiuli: Finding the right recruiter for your business

#91 - Chatting With Curtis Fort: Improving debt collection in the construction industry

#90 - Chatting With Gary Radford: Surround yourself with good people & believe in your business

#89 - Chatting With Ryan Condon: Finding ways to improve your customer experience

#88 - Chatting With Jim Lee: The Fleet Office

#87 - Chatting With Greg Pugh: Figure out your strengths & weaknesses and focus on improving them

#86 - Chatting With Greg Parfitt: Becoming the Orange Hire CEO

#85 - Chatting With Tom Kimber: Kennards Hire have added a level of professionalism to the New Zealand market

#84 - Chatting With SiteSmart: Incorporating QR Codes into your fleet

#83 - Chatting With Grant Voysey: I worked at Coates Hire for 25 years and took on anything they asked me to do

#82 - Chatting With Steven Taylor: The journey from a Wreckair Rental Coordinator to the CEO of Adaptalift Group

#81 - Chatting With Josh Nickell: Joining the American Rental Association as the Vice President, Equipment Segment

#80 - Chatting With Andrew Donald: A sustainable business is about patience, process efficiency and building a sound reputation

#79 - Chatting With David Schurman: The journey from The Home Depot to a Kennards Hire General Manager

#78 - Chatting With Joshua Inskip: Every no gets me closer to a yes

#77 - Chatting With Steven Whitehead: The quality of your success is directly correlated to the quality of your goal setting

#76 - Chatting With Emily Donney: When I first joined the equipment rental industry I hated everything about it

#75 - Chatting With Joe Valen: Fiber Optic Equipment is used to reduce the time it takes to install cabling

#74 - Chatting With Alex Kraft: Heave notifies sales reps when customers are seeking heavy equipment in their area

#73 - Reflecting on The Top 10 Podcast Moments from 2021

#72 - Chatting With Rebecca Waters: In 1996 our first piece of rail equipment was a telehandler with a basket chained to the forks

#71 - Chatting With Clint White: The 2021 Hire and Rental Industry Association Young Professional of the Year

#70 - Chatting With Maureen Mousdell: Women need to promote working in the equipment rental industry

#69 - Chatting With Charles Anderson: If you truly believe in your product, it's not selling, it's helping your clients succeed

#68 - Chatting With George Whyte: The journey from Sales Manager to Aggreko Australia Managing Director

#67 - Chatting With Van Cuong Lo: A day in the life of a Material Handling Sales Manager

#66 - Chatting With Rosemary Tilley: Every dollar you spend on wellbeing it is estimated to have a $14 return

#65 - Chatting With Erin Johnston: We are rebuilding our event rental business for the 3rd time in 18 months

#64 - Chatting With Charlie Pidcock: Pick up the phone, don't hide behind emails or text messages

#63 - Chatting With James MacPherson: Most equipment rental businesses are not utilizing the data they collect

#62 - Chatting With Patrick Tunnicliffe: I competed in world cup snowboard racing while working at a rental store

#61 - Chatting With Aileen Hiskins: HRIA Women in Hire & Access Mentoring Program & Young Professional Network

#59 - Chatting With Colleen Cohen: I joined the rental industry with Coates Hire in 1973

#58 - Chatting With Charles Anderson: It's unreasonable that everything in your life is digital, but when you go to work, it operates in the year 2000

#57 - Chatting With Kyle Clements: There was a decade of e-commerce growth in just 2 months

#56 - Chatting With Gary Kerr: Taking on an opportunity in Hire 53 years ago changed my whole life

#55 - Chatting With Ash Woodcock: Understanding your strategy for me has been also understanding what you're not going to do

#54 - Chatting With Cliff Chadwick: When Chadwick Forklifts won Rental Company of the Year, I nearly fell off my chair

#53 - Chatting With Matt Whalen: Being a service tech is like putting a cape on everyday

#52 - Chatting With Jesse Buckingham: Don't live your life based on what somebody else wants

#51 - Chatting With Matt Lambert: How I started an equipment rental business when I was 19 years old

#50 - Chatting With Aaron Witt: Every equipment rental company in the U.S is experiencing record growth right now

#49 - Chatting With Luke Habza: It's all about putting your hand up and saying yes to opportunities

#48 - Chatting With El Ioannou : For others to believe in you, you first need to believe in yourself

#47 - Chatting With Sheldon Fingler: Our business revenue crashed to zero overnight

#46 - Chatting With Stefan Ottl: Customers sharing construction equipment on job sites will become mainstream

#45 - Chatting With Ali Hajj: What I learnt Implementing Rental Software into a 1000+ employee Caterpillar Dealership

#44 - Chatting With Tony Colon: The journey from the U.S Military to Herc Rentals

#43 - Chatting With Stephen Donnelley: The equipment rental industry has been such a big part of my life

#42 - Chatting With Andy Martin: Martin Plant Hire acquired the rights to the easyToolhire Scotland brand

Episode Highlight: Why am I here? What can I control? What can I Influence?

#41 - Chatting With Bruce Fouracre: The history of 1300TempFence

#40 - Chatting With Doug Levings: I was told I would never make in the equipment rental industry

#39 - Chatting With Jason Stanczyk: I told the doctor that panic attacks don't happen to me

#38 - Chatting With Steven Brooks: I was travelling for work 250 nights of the year

#37 - Chatting With Blake Menning: Equipment prices are going up and rental rates are going down

#36 - Chatting With Freddie Blanton: Hey Hey Hey It's Freddie at Bobcat!

#35 - Chatting With Bryan Peters: Don’t wait, the time will never be just right

#34 - Chatting With Mike Rooney: How we significantly increased our equipment damage recovery

#33 - Chatting With Caleb Yell: Taking your equipment rental business online

#32 - Chatting With Matthew Nemes: Get out of the way of yourself

#31 - Chatting With Rod Lentino: We can now see all of our OEM machine data in a single screen

#30 - Chatting With Kate Everitt: For to long I let other people dictate my path

#29 - Chatting With Sarah Kuhne: I was included in the Top 100 Women in Construction in 2020

#28 - Chatting With Chania Rodwell: I do believe unconscious bias is a real thing

#27 - Chatting With Angela McLachlan: Customers would call and request to be put through to a man

#26 - Chatting With Manelle Merhi: Don't let seeds of insecurity make you doubt what you are actually capable of

#25 - Chatting With Heidi Sundin & Manal Thomas: We need to elevate the stories of women

#24 - Chatting With Scott Cannon: Our equipment rental network now has over 10,000 locations

#23 - Chatting With Michael McDaniel: I started my rental business on credit cards

#22 - Chatting With Adrian Manning: The journey from yardman to Coates Hire Chief Operating Officer

#21 - Chatting With Jake White: The path to become a Kennards Hire Branch Manager

#20 - Chatting With Louise Azzopardi: The 1st female to win the National World Skills Competition in Heavy Vehicle Mechanics

#19 - Chatting With Jamie Haitas: I said I got nothing, I'm not going to work, I can't do it

#18 - Chatting With Federica Gargiuli: Overcoming the challenges of employee recruitment

#17 - Chatting With Donald Charbonnet: Tips on buying or selling an equipment rental business

#16 - Chatting With Peter Lancken: It is the people within a company that make it a success

#15 - Chatting With Ken Baker: I wish I started my own business when I was much younger

#14 - Chatting With Doug Dougherty: Canada’s fastest growing independent equipment rental company

#13 - Chatting With Miles Beamish: Tips on managing your equipment finance

#12 - Chatting With Braden Murrin: Knowing when it's time for a new challenge

#11 - Chatting With Bruce Peatman: The journey from technician to Hubtex Australia Managing Director

#10 - Chatting With Viv Kennelly: The keys to success in Key Account Management & Sales

#9 - Chatting With Michael Bell: Certain things happen in your life that shift your focus and direction

#8 - Chatting With Martin Costello: If it doesn't positively affect the customer, we won't do it

#7 - Chatting With Allen Besseling: Tips on starting your own hire business

#6 - Chatting With Mark Snook: How I almost fell out of love with the hire industry

#5 - Chatting With Daniel Haskins: Implementing rental software into 150+ locations

#4 - Chatting With Jason White: Building a Career after Serving in the U.S Airforce

#3 - Chatting With Andy Kennard: Growing a Family Owned Business

#2 - Chatting With Tony Lockwood: Importance of Mentoring and Perspective on Life

#1 - Chatting With Paul Weaver: Personal Growth and International Business