Interview: Don’s Rental on the struggle of the independents

Jenny Lescohier Editor, Rental Briefing

12 April 2024

If you ask Dave Dworschak how business is going, he’ll tell you it’s not like the corporate quarterly reports say, or how the leading trade associations make it sound - at least in his neck of the woods.

Dworschak is the second-generation owner of Don’s Rental in St. Helen’s, Oregon in the US, an independent “mom and pop” equipment rental company located about 30 miles outside of the Portland metro area. Dworschack wants the record to show it’s not all cupcakes and rainbows for the smaller companies out there.

We chatted with the lifelong rental veteran in New Orleans while attending The ARA Show, Feb. 19-21. Following is his candid account of the things keeping him up at night and his vision for the future.

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