小牛设备大亨唐·F·艾恩（Don F.戈尔斯（Gores），其铂金权益有限责任公司拥有Maxim Crane Works和Nesco。Ahern坚持不懈，将100％的索赔偿还为期限贷方，每月16％的利息。这使Ahern能够继续经营一家由父亲于1953年创立的公司。转向其他交易，Thwarted Gores后来为132 Untlet，2,100名雇员Volvo租金支付了11亿美元，现在称为Blue Line Rental。

这位60岁的艾恩（Ahern）用刺眼的蓝眼睛，温暖的笑容和推销员随和的魅力说话 - 特征可能帮助他说服华尔街投资者提供7.5亿美元的信用额度，使该公司于6月5日退出破产，2013年。

He hasn't looked back since. Ahern Rentals today consists of 82 branches in 25 states, with a 38,700-piece fleet concentrated in high-reach units. The 1,800-employee company did $412.3 million in business last year, making it the country's largest privately owned construction equipment rental firm. Ahern's other business, Xtreme Manufacturing, a maker of rough-terrain telescoping forklifts, flip-tail delivery trucks and modular stacking cubes, bought the self-propelled aerial-platform fabricator Snorkel from London-based The Tanfield Group in October 2013. Snorkel, which lost about $23.6 million in 2012, is expected to generate $150 million in sales by 2015.

“唐·艾恩（Don Ahern）非常独立。他以自己的方式做事，”行业贸易出版物Rental Equipment Register的编辑Michael Roth说。“他从肠道去。他绝对是一个冒险者。”

Ahern Rentals的周转部分部分是由于Ahern进行了4300万美元的资本投资，主要用于升级生产和供应以及欧洲强劲的需求。现年56岁的浮潜目前每月从澳大利亚，加拿大和日本的五个制造厂生产300台机器，这些工厂雇用了600名员工。

"Ahern already had 800 Snorkel machines in his rental fleet, so buying the company was partly motivated by a desire to protect his investment," Roth says. "The Chinese had initiated purchase talks with Snorkel when Ahern entered the picture."

今年早些时候，Xtreme在3月在拉斯维加斯举行的Conexpo-Con/agg期间揭开了北美最大的粗糙远程伸缩叉车的轰动。这款大型Telehandler具有70,000磅的升力能力，最大高度为38英尺，向前触及22英尺。100,000磅的XR7038配备了2,000磅的叉子，6英尺高的轮胎和300马力的康明斯QSL9 Tier-4最终发动机，使其非常适合采矿，桥梁建造和管道处理工作。大型机器的零售价为740,000美元。

"Don has a pretty good nose for things like this," says Charles Snyder, a Charlotte, N.C.-based industry consultant and ex-equipment rental executive. "I see this machine more as being sold to end users who have specific applications as opposed to rental companies, due to its size and complexity."

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设备是Ahern DNA的一部分。他的父亲约翰·P·艾恩（John P. Ahern）于1953年在拉斯维加斯大道（Las Vegas Strip）上购买了一个信号石油和加油站。艾尔（Ahern）长老还设计并制造了特殊的园林绿化设备，用于在内华达州南部的硬质土壤中种植SOD。