Interview: Don’s Rental on the struggle of the independents
12 April 2024
If you read the quarterly reports of corporate rental chains like United Rentals, or the regular industry forecasts from the American Rental Association, you’d likely form the opinion that rental is in for another year of growth in the US, followed by several more. While good news for anyone with a stake in the industry, it’s not a unanimous characterization. In fact, for smaller independents in markets outside of growing cities, it can be downright tough.
If you ask Dave Dworschak how business is going, he’ll tell you it’s not like the corporate quarterly reports say, or how the leading trade associations make it sound - at least in his neck of the woods.
Dworschak is the second-generation owner of Don’s Rental in Saint Helens, Oregon,…
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