Inductees Announced for the 2024 Rental Hall of Fame
Each year, the American Rental Association (ARA) honors individuals for outstanding service to the association and the rental industry. This year’s inductees into the Rental Hall of Fame, the industry’s highest honor, will be recognized at The ARA Show™ 2025 in Las Vegas.
ARA created the Rental Hall of Fame in 2000 to honor those individuals who have changed the trajectory of the equipment and event rental industry. Each year, nominations are accepted to recognize outstanding industry leaders who have made a substantial and lasting impact on the industry’s success and growth at the national and/or international level.
The inductees this year include:
- Bick Jones, Total Tent Solutions, Houston, Texas - Mr. Jones entered the event rental industry in 1986 after building asuccessful career in banking. During his rental career, Jones served on numerous ARA committees, task forces and panels, including the ARA Investment Committee, the ARA Information Committee and The ARA Show™ Task Force. He received the ARA Rental E-Web Award for party in 2004, and he has been a speaker and panelist at The ARA Show™ numerous times.
- Peter Lancken AM, Kennards Hire, Seven Hills, New South Wales, Australia - Mr. Lancken’s rental career began in 1978 with GKN, an Australian scaffolding company. He later moved to the U.S. to set up and grow a rental business for GKN in southern California. He has served as president of the NSW Hire Association and was a founding director of Australia’s Hire and Rental Industry Association (HRIA). He became involved in ARA in the 1990s and has been a strong supporter of the ARA Foundation.
- David Wilcox II, General Rental Center, Frankfort, Kentucky - Mr. Wilcox became involved in the equipment rental industry in 1977 when he started General Rental Center with his father, David Wilcox Sr. He was a charter member of the ARA of Kentucky who attended the chapter’s first meeting, served on its board of directors and remains involved through the present day. David Wilcox served as ARA Region Five director from 1996-1999 and served on several ARA committees and task forces at the national level. He was elected ARA vice president in 1999, moved up the ranks to serve as the association’s 41st president in 2002 and chaired the board in 2003.
Source: The American Rental Association, (ARA)
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