Did you or your company rent construction equipment at any time in the last four years from companies like Herc Rentals, Sunstate Equipment, Maxim Crane, Equipment Share, or Aggreko? 

Grabar Law Office is investigating potential antitrust claims on behalf of all direct renters of construction rental equipment during the past 4 years.

Specifically, we are investigating possible violations of federal antitrust law by Rouse Services, LLC (“Rouse”) and certain major providers of construction equipment rentals.  Rouse provides Rouse Rental Insights (“RRI”) as an “exclusive source for benchmark rate and utilization data.” Per Rouse, RRI uses “actual rental invoices and daily fleet snapshots from over 250 companies” to provide comparison points for rental rates, amongst other metrics, for subscribers to benchmark their own products. Rouse advertises that it “pull[s] data directly from our clients’ systems to ensure our rate benchmarks are based on actual rental invoices billed to customers, not list rates or quoted rates.” Rouse releases an annual list of the top 100 construction equipment rental companies and has published that nine of the top ten in that list, including all of the top three, use its RRI benchmarking software.

Known clients of RRI include: United Rentals, Herc, H&E Rentals, SunBelt Rentals, Sunstate Equipment, Equipment Share, and Aggreko, among others.  It is alleged that the RRI platform is utilized in a manner that allows construction equipment rental companies coordinate and artificially inflate prices to their customers.

The construction rental equipment at the core of this investigation includes:

• Excavators
• Dozers
• Wheel loaders
• Backhoe loaders
• Compact track loaders
• Skid steer loaders
• Wheel loaders
• Articulated trucks
• Forklift trucks
• Truck tractors
• Telescopic booms
• Articulating booms
• Scissor lifts
• Telehandlers
• Air compressors

If you or your company paid for construction equipment rentals at any time in the last 4 years, you may have been overcharged and you may be entitled to recover financial damages as well as a court approved service award, if appropriate, at no cost to you.

A no-cost form engagement letter can be viewed here: Construction Equipment Rentals- Form Retainer Letter

If you would like to learn more about this matter at no cost to you, please contact Joshua H. Grabar at [email protected] or call 267-507-6085.