Nov. 10 – Wiest Rentals & Sales kicks off the tournament Thursday evening with a GLAO/Inland Territory meeting. The evening begins at 6 p.m. with a yard party featuring several CRA vendors, a taco bar and maybe a surprise or two…

 

Nov. 11 – Taking place on Veterans Day this year, CRA’s seventh annual Golf Tournament provides vendors and rental centers a fun day of networking while raising funds for the Rental Services Industry Foundation. Competitions, games and vendor displays will be featured along the course at Eagle Glenn Golf Course for the enjoyment of the golfers. A reception will follow with awards and a raffle, and the cigar bar will be returning with a tequila tasting!

 

 

This year's golf tournament is being held on Nov. 11 and returns to the Eagle Glen Golf Course, which is located in Corona, California. The proceeds from the event will go to CRA’s Rental Services Industry Foundation (RSIF), which is a qualified 501(c)(3) foundation that provides scholarships to employees and owners of member rental centers and member vendors. It also has the purpose of providing emergency assistance in the case of disasters.

The CRA’s 2023 equipment and party rental tradeshow returns to the South Point Hotel & Convention Center.

 

Click here to see who has signed up to exhibit!

Visit www.rentalrally.com for complete Rental Rally Tradeshow information.

A study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine found that nearly 40% of U.S. workers experience fatigue. Why should employers care? Worker fatigue can lead to lost productivity. Total lost productive time averaged 5.6 hours per week for workers with fatigue, compared to 3.3 hours for their counterparts without fatigue. Even when they were working, workers with fatigue symptoms had much lower rates of productivity than their sprightly counterparts — mainly due to low concentration and increased time needed to accomplish tasks.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ergonomic injuries — also known as musculoskeletal disorders — make up one-third of all work-related injuries and illnesses. The trends are concerning and costly. An estimated $1 of every $3 spent on workers' compensation claims stems from ergonomic issues. Click on "Learn more" for additional facts.

 

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Bobcat Company officially opened a new 110,000-square-foot Aftermarket Parts Distribution Center in Reno, Nevada, marking the first of two new Bobcat PDCs to open in the U.S. in 2022. Joining the company’s existing Bobcat Parts Distribution Center near Chicago in Woodridge, Illinois, an additional regional location will open in Atlanta later this year.

Each year CRA hosts a fundraising golf tournament for the benefit of its foundation, RSIF (Rental Services Industry Foundation), a nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to provide college scholarships to young students interested in the rental industry. This year is CRA's seventh annual tournament, and it will continue to draw rental-industry golfers. 

 

A few sponsorships are still available:
*Platinum - $4,000
*Gold - $3,000
*Bronze - $2,000
*Cigar Bar Sponsor - $500
*Hole Sponsor - $900
*Closest To Hole - $500

 

Sign up as a sponsor online! Please consider this request as another avenue for your organization to demonstrate its support of the rental industry. Click here for additional information, and please also see our current list of tournament sponsors.

Thank you to our 2022 CRA/RSIF Golf Tournament Sponsors!

 

CRA's 2023 equipment and party rental tradeshow will be back at the South Point Hotel & Convention Center — a great venue choice, with the convenience of having the convention center and hotel on the same property.

 

Reserve Your Booth Today:
Booths start at $1,795* for CRA members and $2,195 for non-members. Corner booths are an additional $300. Optional events, such as the cocktail party and gala, are not included in the booth fee.

Save Money:
• Buy two booths or more and receive a 25% DISCOUNT on each additional boot of equal or lesser value.
• For even bigger savings, buy five booths and RECEIVE THE SIXTH BOOTH FREE!

 

Exhibitor Links:
• Exhibitor Application
• Exhibitor Floor Plan

 

Outdoor demo areas will be available on Monday, Jan. 23, at Dig This Vegas. The optional outside demo area is available only with the purchase of a convention-hall booth at $400.

GPS Tracking - Fleet Management. DPL Telematics is a leading provider of advanced-asset monitoring, GPS and telemetry technologies for the construction, agriculture, rental, mining, rail, fleet and oil-field industries. With over 20 years of experience and more than $1 billion in customer mobile assets trusted to them, they deliver a complete suite of cellular-monitoring solutions. Their award-winning products include the AssetView and AssetCommand lines, FleetViewOBDII solution for vehicles and more.

Sanders, Polishers, Carpet Machines and Supplies. Essex Silverline is a master distributor for EDCO products. They have a 15,000-square-foot warehouse stocked with the supplies you need.

Graco designs and manufactures thousands of fluid-handling products and solutions for the industries around the world and is a world leader in fluid-spraying technology. Their extensive line of sprayers, equipment and accessories delivers superior results under the most demanding conditions. No matter the job, Graco equipment delivers unsurpassed performance and durabilty.

Heavy Duty Attachments. Rental-tough attachments that work harder and are guaranteed to last the distance. Versatile machinery attachments for all applications. The leader in heavy-machinery attachments for building and construction. Star Industries makes innovative attachments for forklifts, cranes, skid-steers and other machinery. Proudly made in the USA.

17G Compact Excavator. Today, Stotz Equipment operates out of 24 locations in eight Western states. It still holds true to the founding values of the Elder and Rosztoczy families: quality, integrity, loyalty, caring and community. Their vision is to be the best equipment dealer in the world. To achieve this, they strive to provide exceptional customer service. They have made it their mission to make life easier for their customers by building long-term relationships, offering flexible solutions, providing their customers with uptime availability and minimizing customer effort. They truly aim to create a better life for their families, communities and those connected to the land.

 

Move into 2023 with CRA! As 2022 quickly comes to a close, you may find yourself looking for the next big thing to help your company grow. Well, look no further than CRA. With a wide variety of media products, we are sure to have an opportunity to fit your advertising needs.

The Center for Jobs and the Economy has released their initial analysis of the August Employment Report from the California Employment Development Department. The August 2022 numbers saw a substantial weakening in the state’s recovery progress. While the U.S., as a whole, continued to post job numbers above the pre-pandemic high, California's job numbers returned to the overall weakening trend seen over the past 11 months, while employment suffered a small loss. Compared to the February 2020 pre-pandemic highs, California was still 0.3% short of the recovery mark for nonfarm wage and salary jobs, and 0.9% short for employment. For additional information and data about the California economy, visit www.centerforjobs.org/ca.

When it comes to factory-direct off-road trucks, Ram has cranked up plenty of torque with its diesel-equipped 2023 Ram 2500 Heavy Duty Rebel. As OEMs continue to step up their off-road packages, Ram’s 2023 heavy-duty Rebel maxes out at an impressive 850 pound-feet of torque and 370 horsepower. That rock-spitting, dirt-churning power comes courtesy of a 6.7-liter Cummins Turbo Diesel I-6 paired up with a 68RFE six-speed automatic transmission that comes standard with the diesel.

It will soon be illegal for California employers to let workers' offsite and outside-of-work marijuana use be a factor in hiring or firing decisions, according to a new state law. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed into law a bill that makes California the seventh state in the United States that does not allow employers to discriminate against workers who smoke weed "off the job and away from the workplace." The new law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2024. The law prohibits employers from making hiring, firing or other employment decisions based on a drug test that finds "nonpsychoactive cannabis metabolites" in someone's hair or urine, which do not indicate current impairment but rather that someone consumed cannabis recently, up to weeks prior, according to Assembly Bill 2188 which Assembly Member Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) sponsored.

In the latest report from California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA), total new light-duty vehicle registrations in the second quarter of 2022 were largely unchanged from the first quarter but were off 17.5% from the same period in 2021 and down roughly the same compared to the same quarter in pre-pandemic 2019. Total sales for the year are now expected to be just slightly below the 1.86 million seen in 2021. The limiting factor continues to be constrained production levels and dealer inventory.

This month, we asked if members would be interested in establishing a mentoring program for rental center employees as well as whether they would be interested in becoming a mentor or mentee. If you have additional ideas for surveys for CRA members, please send your request to CRA at info@calrental.org. 

Craig Yuhas, of Nach Marketing, is the winner of the October Survey Raffle. Congratulations, Craig!