Business View Magazine | July 2019

413 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 SUNBELT EQUI PMENT MARKET ING, INC . sure they’re taken care of wherever the job is.” In a highly competitive market, Fry believes that what gives SEMI an advantage is that the company evolved out of the pipeline construction industry. “We were not an equipment company jumping into the pipeline space,” he adds. “It was the other way around. Our owner was on the pipeline contractor side for many years, then jumped into pipeline equipment rentals. So, he brings years and years of domestic and international experience working for a pipeline contractor to the pipeline equipment side of the industry. This provides a unique perspective to the equipment demands of a pipeline construction project. He understands the equipment needs of contractors and important issues such as safety, reliability, quality, service, and schedule. He understands all of that and brings that perspective into the equipment rental side of it. It gives us a very unique perspective that our customers value and trust. Also, because we’re family-owned, we’re able to be agile. We can make decisions quickly. A lot of equipment companies are big corporate operations. We’re not constrained by multiple levels of management and board members to make a decision.” Fry also gives credit to SEMI’s employees: “Our team members are what keep people coming back,” he notes. “They can get a quality product from a lot of places, but several of our people in our company have experience in different aspects of pipeline construction. It started with our owner, but we’ve got other employees that