Equipment, alone, won’t keep some contractors from taking on appealing landscape jobs. Faced with tighter budgets and competitive markets, landscape companies don’t want to turn down a high-profit project. No skid-steer loader? No problem. Just rent it.
Now, contractors can snag a Toro Dingo at a Volvo Construction Equipment Rents store, after the company signed a national agreement with Toro as the preferred supplier for Toro Dingo compact utility loaders. Noted as a high growth opportunity for the rental market, availability of equipment like mini skid steers matches Volvo’s goal to offer light construction equipment options, pointed out Marc Bowers, marketing manager, Siteworks Systems Group, The Toro Co., Bloomington, Minn.
“[Volvo] is focusing on light construction equipment, which includes most of the equipment a landscape contractor would use as well as equipment with general applications on a job site,” Bowers noted, adding that more rental equipment stores are catering to landscape contractors today.
“If you look at the economy and the psychological demeanor of people who buy equipment, they are cautious and conservative,” he described. “Landscape contractors would rather rent when they know they have a job than buy and hope they get enough jobs to pay for the equipment.” – Kristen Hampshire
The author is Managing Editor – Special Projects for Lawn & Landscape magazine and can be reached at khampshire@lawnandlandscape.com.