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Meeting and Event News
 By Katie Marrs, Carol Murphy and Eddie Wilson
The annual RSIF golf tournament is one of the yearly events CRA members always look forward to attending, and this year’s sixth annual CRA/RSIF Golf Tournament was a top-notch, best-ball, hole-in-one kind of day! Everyone gathered for a day of social networking and a bit of golf, and the energy in the air was intoxicating.
There was so much more for the players than just a round of golf — not only did they get to interact with all the vendors on almost all the holes, but there was also wine tasting on one of the holes this year. As the day began to wind down, CPEE Sales treated everyone to an authentic Cuban cigar-rolling experience by Zaira from VB Cigars, and Sullivan-Palatak and Multiquip co-hosted a whiskey tasting of five whiskeys, with information about each provided by Tommy Hwang. Fun fact: the most popular whiskey was Howler Head — a banana whiskey.
Thank You to West Coast Equipment for hosting the GLAO/Inland Pre-Golf Yard Party! Nearly 100 people enjoyed great food and conversation with friends while listening to Drew Delaney give an overview on CARB. Also, a special thank you to Makita for being our beverage sponsor.
Rental Center News
The Lasting Effects of Long-haul COVID: According to some organizations, as many as 80% of COVID-19 patients will experience one or more long-term, persistent symptoms. The clinicians at Emory Executive Park post-COVID clinic in Atlanta say one of the most common persistent symptoms of people who have recovered from COVID-19 is shortness of breath, which may suggest diminished lung function, although other causes such as pulmonary embolism, even after acute illness, may be contributing. Dr. Thanushi Wynn has been caring for post-COVID follow-up patients from Emory Johns Creek Hospital and Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Wynn notes that some patients may be able to prevent chronic lung damage with timely treatment by an experienced pulmonologist. However, the symptoms some COVID-19 survivors have been reporting extend beyond the pulmonary realm, indicating that viral infection has inflicted injury on other systems of the body. They include chest pain upon exertion, irregular heartbeats (cardiac arrhythmias), and dizziness or a racing heart when someone stands up after lying down (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). In addition, a number of post-COVID patients are reporting loss of smell or taste, altered sensations in their limbs, chronic pain and/or brain fog (problems with memory, concentration or word-finding).
Vendor News
Boom & Bucket
Abel Gaytan 600 Congress Ave. 14th Floor Austin, TX 78701 (909) 455-5642 www.Boomandbucket.com
CRA’s 2022 Equipment and Party Rental Rally Tradeshow will be held Jan. 20-22, 2022, at the South Point Casino Hotel & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada! Visit www.RentalRally.com for more information.
Thank you to our 2022 Rental Rally Tradeshow Sponsors! Sponsorships are still available for the Tradeshow — 10 levels are available, ranging from $400–$5,000: Floor Decals • Friends of CRA • Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Gifts • Gala Sponsors • Major Sponsors. CLICK HERE for a Rental Rally Tradeshow Sponsorship Form.
Exhibitor booth space is still available too — Reserve your booth today! Thank you to the exhibitors that have already signed up. Click on “Learn more” to see the exhibitors signed up to date.
Since 1967, MBW has been manufacturing one of the construction industry's most interesting lines of small compaction, concrete and related equipment. MBW begins each new engineering project with the assumption that significant progress can be made in terms of improved productivity, reduced maintenance, longer life, enhanced user safety or lower long-term cost of ownership.
NW Quik Pull is an Innovative, Manual, Lightweight, Easy To Use Post Puller, Stake Puller and Landscape Tool. This post-pulling tool is portable, weighing only 50 lbs., and requires only one person to operate it. It is a mechanical tool requiring little to no maintenance, with no electricity or hydraulics involved, making it more earth friendly. The NW Quik Pull will leave the least amount of damage to your yard or garden while pulling your fence post. This tool is also versatile — it can be used on fence posts with or without the concrete plug, T-posts, shrubs, bamboo, grape vines, vine posts, and much more!
Solar Light Tower Equipment, Solar/Battery Power Equipment, Sales, Rentals & Service. SolSolutions consults, designs, builds and services mobile and off-grid solar + storage + hybrid power systems. SolSolutions delivers renewable and reliable power alternatives and extensions to fossil fuel generators. They support businesses, communities, and residential disaster response for plug and play power and lighting solutions. These systems provide energy resilience when the grid is unavailable or unreliable. Many of our systems are portable or temporary for appropriate situations and transport.
Portable Compressors and Construction Tools. Sullair was founded in Michigan City, Indiana, in 1965 and has since expanded with a broad international network to serve customers in every corner of the globe. For more than 50 years, Sullair has been on the leading edge of compressed-air solutions. They were one of the first to execute rotary-screw technology in their air compressors. Sullair made history by teaming up with Dow Chemical to produce one of the industry’s longest-lasting compressor fluids. Now Sullair is part of the Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. compressor portfolio. As the industry moves forward, Sullair will always be at the forefront with quality people, innovative solutions and air compressors that are built to last.
Since 2003, Trackunit has specialized in the design, development and production of fleet-management systems. All of our solutions development is carried out at our HQ in northern Denmark. Today, Trackunit is the leading supplier of fleet-management solutions across the globe, operating out of our eight offices worldwide.
TORSUS, manufacturer of one of the world’s toughest, heavy-duty off-road vehicles, reveals its latest creation for the commercial sector with TERRASTORM CHASSIS, a versatile 4x4 all-terrain Flatframe chassis, ready to carry cargo or be converted into a truck with a Recovery Vehicle flatbed, Dropside or Tipper configuration. Available to order from Jan. 1, 2022. And with prices starting at €51,716, the first TERRASTORM CHASSIS deliveries will commence in 2022 in both left-hand and right-hand drive. Engineered and manufactured at TORSUS’ production plant in Slovakia, the heart of vehicle manufacturing in central Europe, the team applied its expert knowledge gained from producing the PRAETORIAN and TERRASTORM, the world’s first production off-road buses, to design a new ultra-tough 4x4 TERASTORM CHASSIS Flatframe truck. Configurable with either a single or double cab to transport people and cargo to some of the world’s most inhospitable places, the TERRASTORM CHASSIS is dependable and pushes the commercial vehicle sector to new limits. Designed to deliver goods and supplies through unreachable forests or pathless sands, the TERRASTORM CHASSIS is a reliable assistant for farms or forestry and the perfect base for further conversion.
Business News
 The 2022 AQMP is currently being developed with the primary purpose of creating an attainment strategy for the 2015 eight-hour ozone standard (70 parts per billion). To solicit input from all stakeholders on control strategies, the South Coast AQMD and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will host a joint Control Measures Workshop to provide an overview of the control measures and strategies being developed/considered for the 2022 AQMP. These strategies include South Coast AQMD’s proposed control measures as well as state measures being pursued through the 2022 State Strategy for the State Implementation Plan. South Coast AQMD and CARB staff will present specific control measures for mobile and stationary sources followed by discussion and questions from all participants. The Control Measures Workshop will consist of morning and afternoon sessions and is scheduled for:
Nov. 10, 2021
9 a.m. to noon
South Coast AQMD's Stationary Source Measures 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
South Coast AQMD's Mobile Source Measures and CARB's State SIP Strategy Measures Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) and a recognized expert in California fiscal affairs, recently posted this article: Support is growing for the idea that parents can help their families climb the economic ladder by building generational wealth through property ownership. Surprisingly, this support has even been spotted in the opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times. It’s surprising because the LA Times has previously taken a highly negative view of families being able to pass along intergenerational wealth in the form of real property. In a lengthy 2018 article about the effect of a voter-approved measure that allowed parents to transfer property to their kids without reassessment and a tax increase, LA Times reporter Liam Dillon focused almost exclusively on how the measure had benefited some very wealthy families. In particular, he objected to actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges renting the Malibu home they inherited from their father, actor Lloyd Bridges.
Calendar
Nov. 30, 2021 – Ventura, CA
Tri-County Holiday Party at Café Fiori, see more... Dec. 1, 2021 – La Mirada, CA
Greater LA /Orange Holiday Party at Clearman’s North Woods Inn, see more... Dec. 2, 2021 – Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Inland Holiday Party at Kings Fish House, see more... Dec. 9, 2021 – Berkeley, CA
SFBA & Vintage Holiday Party at Skates on the Bay, see more... Jan. 24-26, 2022 – Las Vegas, NV
CRA Rental Rally Tradeshow... more Survey Results
We are skipping the survey for October/November. Please watch for our November/December survey. And if you have an idea for a survey for CRA members, please send your request to CRA at Info@CalRental.org.
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