How the rental market looks to you depends on where you are standing
Numbers only tell you so much, especially when the numbers themselves are of variable quality and often measuring different things. That’s the ‘health warning’ on the industry statistics that we present on this page for 2012, because the basis for measurement remains different in different parts of the world. To give just two examples, there is no operated plant or cranes in the ERA figures for Europe, and party and events are included for ARA’s North American numbers.Our estimates for the rest of the world, meanwhile, are just that: estimates, given to provide a guide but not to be taken as the final word
