PRESS RELEASE

Contact:

 

Michael Foster
Rain For Rent
MFoster@rainforrent.com

Glen Sider

National Equipment Register

Gsider@NERusa.com

For Immediate Release
April 14, 2005

 

 

Rain For Rent and the National Equipment Register Partner to Combat Equipment Theft

 

Bakersfield, CA – April 14, 2005.  Rain For Rent, a leader in the rental of liquid handling equipment, has registered its equipment fleet with the National Equipment Register in order to help Rain For Rent and its clients deter theft and increase the chances of recovering stolen equipment.

 

John Lake, President of Rain For Rent notes that “Construction equipment theft is a significant problem to rental companies.  Rain For Rent is pleased to participate with NER and local law enforcement agencies to prevent and deter criminal activities in the construction equipment arena.”

 

Through its 24-hour hotline and the Internet, NER provides expert identification advice and ownership information from its databases of millions of equipment theft and ownership records to law enforcement seeking to identify suspicious equipment.  NER will now be able to identify equipment belonging to Rain For Rent – even before a theft has been detected or reported. 

 

As theft is a significant problem for rental companies and their clients, NER provides a very cost effective solution.  The mobile inventory of all Rain For Rent locations in 22 states across the U.S are being marked with NER decals that clearly warn thieves that the equipment is registered on a national database used extensively by law enforcement, and that the chances of being detected while moving, storing or selling the equipment are greatly increased. 

 

What if the thief removes the decal?  “It doesn’t matter,” points out David Shillingford, president of NER.  “The item is still registered on the database and can still be identified in a number of ways - and thieves know this.”  NER also encourages officers to investigate suspicious equipment through a national training program that explains the common ‘red flags’ displayed by stolen equipment and the basics of equipment identification.

 

NER now has over 1,000 law enforcement agencies using their databases regularly, which has already resulted in the recovery of over $4 million of stolen equipment.  Adding Rain For Rent’s branches brings NER’s number of participating rental facilities to nearly two thousand across the country – and growing.

 

 

About Rain For Rent

 

With the pumps and pipe for infrastructure improvement, liquid storage tanks for environmental projects, filtration systems to help meet discharge restrictions, dewatering boxes for waste minimization, and a myriad of other unique solutions, Rain For Rent has the complete package for your liquid handling emergency.  Rain For Rent is ready to solve your liquid handling problems.  Call 1-800-742-7246 or visit the website at rainforrent.com for more information.