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Penske is proud to recognize its Inaugural Rental Associate Appreciation Week Sept. 8-14.

With the theme, “Your Effort Moves Us,” we celebrate the thousands of Penske Rental associates who help customers move through life’s biggest milestones, businesses navigate their busiest seasons and drivers handle their most hectic days.

We know that effort equals results, and it’s the effort of our exceptional Rental associates that truly move us.

“The summer months are some of the busiest of the year for our Rental associates, and we’re proud to take this week to thank them and their continued dedication to excellence,” says Kevin Malloy, senior vice president of rental at Penske Truck Leasing. “It is truly because of them that our customers continue to rent with confidence.”

“During Rental Associate Appreciation Week – and every day - we appreciate and thank you.”

READING, Pa., June 17, 2024 – Penske Truck Rental recently announced the relaunch of its newly revamped website at PenskeTruckRental.com for commercial truck rental customers. The redesigned reservation flow introduces a modern, intuitive design to enhance and speed up the customer experience, ensuring a seamless and efficient process for business users. Key features designed to improve user interaction and satisfaction include:

  • Truck First Selection with Enhanced Menu: Commercial customers can now select their desired truck first, utilizing an enhanced menu that offers multiple vehicle category selections for greater convenience.
  • Interactive Pricing Map: The new, interactive map displays pricing at each location, simplifying the process of finding the best rental options.
  • Enhanced Insurance Coverage Options: Penske now offers separate Loss Damage Waiver and Liability Insurance Alternative coverages, providing more flexibility compared with the previous bundled Penske Protection Plan.

Additionally, Penske’s website has undergone a significant aesthetic upgrade, featuring a modernized design that is more visually appealing and user-friendly. This fresh look enhances the overall browsing experience and makes navigation more intuitive, allowing customers to easily find the information they need.

A standout feature of the new website is the upgraded Penske Vehicle Selection Guide page. This enables customers to compare different vehicle types effortlessly, aiding in the decision-making process by presenting clear and concise information on various rental truck options.

Kevin Malloy, senior vice president of rental for Penske, emphasized the benefits for new customers: "Our goal with the new website is to provide a more efficient, user-friendly experience for our customers. The modern design, coupled with new features like the Interactive Pricing Map and Vehicle Selection Guide, ensures a better user experience that also helps customers make informed decisions quickly and with confidence."

Penske’s new website is mobile-friendly and aims to better meet the evolving needs of commercial customers, enhancing overall efficiency and user experience in the truck rental process.

About Penske Truck Rental and Penske Truck Leasing

Penske Truck Rental, a business unit of Penske Truck Leasing, is one of the premier commercial truck rental providers in North America. With one of the newest and among the largest commercial rental truck fleets, Penske provides businesses with sleeper and day cab semi-tractors, straight trucks, flatbeds, refrigerated trucks, trailers, and more. Penske rents the top brands of light-duty, medium-duty and heavy-duty commercial vehicles including Ford, GMC, Hino, Isuzu, Freightliner, International, Volvo, and more. Commercial electric vehicles are also available. For commercial truck rentals, call 800-PENSKE-1 or visit www.PenskeTruckRental.com for assistance.

Penske Truck Leasing is a Penske Transportation Solutions company headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania. A leading provider of innovative transportation solutions, Penske operates and maintains more than 447,000 vehicles and serves its customers from more than 990 maintenance facilities and approximately 2,600 rental locations across North America. Solutions from Penske include full-service truck leasing, fleet maintenance, truck rentals, used trucks, and a comprehensive array of technologies to keep the world moving forward. Visit PenskeTruckLeasing.com to learn more.

Penske Truck Rental recently announced the relaunch of its newly revamped website at PenskeTruckRental.com for commercial truck rental customers. The redesigned reservation flow introduces a modern, intuitive design to enhance and speed up the customer experience, ensuring a seamless and efficient process for business users. Key features designed to improve user interaction and satisfaction include:

  • Truck First Selection with Enhanced Menu: Commercial customers can now select their desired truck first, utilizing an enhanced menu that offers multiple vehicle category selections for greater convenience.
  • Interactive Pricing Map: The new, interactive map displays pricing at each location, simplifying the process of finding the best rental options.
  • Enhanced Insurance Coverage Options: Penske now offers separate Loss Damage Waiver and Liability Insurance Alternative coverages, providing more flexibility compared with the previous bundled Penske Protection Plan.

Additionally, Penske’s website has undergone a significant aesthetic upgrade, featuring a modernized design that is more visually appealing and user-friendly. This fresh look enhances the overall browsing experience and makes navigation more intuitive, allowing customers to easily find the information they need.

Penske's Commercial Truck Rental website shown optimized on different devices: desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile device.

A standout feature of the new website is the upgraded Penske Vehicle Selection Guide page. This enables customers to compare different vehicle types effortlessly, aiding in the decision-making process by presenting clear and concise information on various rental truck options.

Kevin Malloy, senior vice president of rental for Penske, emphasized the benefits for new customers: "Our goal with the new website is to provide a more efficient, user-friendly experience for our customers. The modern design, coupled with new features like the Interactive Pricing Map and Vehicle Selection Guide, ensures a better user experience that also helps customers make informed decisions quickly and with confidence."

Penske’s new website is mobile-friendly and aims to better meet the evolving needs of commercial customers, enhancing overall efficiency and user experience in the truck rental process.

The U.S. Department of Defense has formally recognized Penske Truck Leasing for its military-friendly policies. The company is a recipient of the Above and Beyond Award recently given by the Pennsylvania Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR). The honor is provided to companies “for outstanding service and continuing support to the national defense.”

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Penske Truck Leasing today announced it has recently completed the acquisitions of Star Truck Rentals, Inc., a transportation services company offering full-service leasing, commercial truck rental, contract maintenance, used truck sales and additional services and Kris-Way Truck Leasing, Inc., a transportation services company offering full-service leasing, commercial truck rental, contract maintenance and dedicated contract carriage.

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Penske Truck Leasing reached an agreement to acquire Star Truck Rentals, Inc., a transportation services company offering full-service leasing, commercial truck rental, contract maintenance, used truck sales and additional services. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Penske Truck Leasing today announced it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Rochester, New York-based DeCarolis Truck Rental, Inc., a transportation company providing full-service truck leasing, rental, maintenance and repair services to a variety of customers primarily in the food processing and distribution, consumer distribution, and freight-hauling industries.

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Penske Truck Leasing will be a Platinum Sponsor and exhibitor at the upcoming National Private Truck Council (NPTC) Annual Education Management Conference and Exhibition, June 13-15 in Cincinnati. The company will also host the First Timers' Orientation Breakfast and Sunday Exhibit Hall Reception.

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Since opening a gleaming new Dallas facility last June (pictured above), Penske Truck Leasing has experienced success with growing its business operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, market. It is ideally situated near Interstate 20 and Interstate 45.

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Penske Truck Rental is now an Affinity Program Provider for the American Trucking Associations (ATA). ATA member companies, which includes those enrolled in the ATA Moving & Storage Conference, now have access to discount fixed and mileage rates. Also, an additional 10% discount will apply on one-way truck rentals.

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Penske Truck Leasing has built a new state-of-the-art facility in Selma, Texas. The new location will allow the transportation company to better service its existing customer base in the area and also provide capacity to serve new customers.

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Hector Reyna is giving back to his community as a member of the Texas Army National Guard. A part-time rental representative in Penske Truck Leasing's Dallas North district, Reyna has served Lone Star State residents on the front lines for four years, where he currently grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic. He also assisted in recovery operations in the aftermath of 2017's Hurricane Harvey.

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Penske Truck Leasing has opened a new consumer and commercial truck rental, full-service truck leasing and contract truck fleet maintenance facility near one of the busiest ports of entry in the United States. Penske's newest location at 8710 Avenida de la Fuente in San Diego is located approximately one mile from the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.

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Penske Truck Leasing has officially opened for business at its new facility in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Located at 1305 W Grantham St. in Goldsboro, the new location will offer consumer and commercial truck rental in addition to full-service truck leasing and contract truck fleet maintenance.

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Penske Truck Leasing has opened a new facility in East Dundee, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago. The new site is in the Terra Business Park, a unique location between three Chicago area Penske branches; Rockford, Elk Grove and West Chicago.

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