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After a 2008 acquisition that gave American Trailer & Storage Inc. a presence in Omaha, the equipment rental company had 25 employees and appeared ready for bigger things.

Dave Kaup | KCBJ

Rick Honan, president of American Trailer & Storage Inc., says the company was careful not to cut too much during the recession so it would be ready when things turned for the better.

Read more: American Trailer & Storage turns the corner, reloads to recover from recession | Kansas City Business Journal

Then the recession came, and AT&S fell on hard times, laying off 40 percent of its work force.
Three years later, the Kansas City-based company is rolling back uphill, generating a 74 percent increase in revenue through May, compared with a year ago, and adding back three employees. Old lines of business are recovering, and AT&S has added new ones to keep that growth continuing.
The downturn was painful, but President Rick Honan said the company made sure its survival techniques weren’t so drastic that when the recovery came, AT&S would be useless to its customers.
“We didn’t want to cut too deep or make too many cutbacks because when things do turn around in this industry, you’ve got to have good people to take care of the customers and handle the business,” Honan said. “There was a time when we had excess capacity, but we wanted to keep people onboard.”

Read more: American Trailer & Storage turns the corner, reloads to recover from recession | Kansas City Business Journal

AT&S Opens Facility in Omaha

American Trailer & Storage, Inc (AT&S) began providing storage and transportation solutions in 1994. AT&S looks forward to expanding its presence in the Omaha market.

American Trailer & Storage, Inc. (doing business as AT&S), a portable storage and transportation equipment sales and rental company, announced that they have opened a location in Omaha, NE. This new location opening marks an expanded presence in the Nebraska and Western Iowa market.

AT&S’ team looks forward to expanding its presence in Nebraska. The new Omaha location allows the company to provide to provide improved service and accessibility to a wide range of customers in need of storage containers and semi-trailers in and around
metropolitan Omaha.

“Our new location in Omaha provides very convenient access to our customers and is strategically located in an area where we can provide prompt service as well as good visibility and easy access for customers wanting to inspect storage containers, new and used semi-trailers of all types” stated Rick Honan, President of AT&S. The new office and storage lot is located at 10330 I Street, Omaha, NE.

“Our team’s knowledge and experience in dry-van trailers, shipping and storage containers, allows us to provide superior and customized service and quality equipment to meet various transportation and storage needs for both rental and sales.”

“I am excited to be close to our Omaha customers,” said Steve Blum. Blum is a 30-year veteran of the trailer industry and has sold just about every kind of new and used trailer including dry-vans, refrigerated trailers, side-dumps, flat beds, belly dumps and specialized equipment. Blum was also a pioneer in bringing ground level storage containers to Nebraska in the early 1990s.

“We’re looking forward to expanding our market presence in and around Omaha and Council Bluffs,” said Vice President of Sales Dale Martens.

About AT&S
Established in 1994, AT&S works with businesses of all sizes to provide storage, cartage and over the road semi-trailers and storage containers/conex boxes and other portable storage related services and solutions. With locations in various cities throughout the Midwest, AT&S provides portable storage in Saint Louis, Kansas City storage containers and Lincoln/Omaha storage containers. AT&S has storage trailers for rent. Additionally, AT&S has both containers for sale and trailers for sale. The strong Midwestern work ethic is the foundation of our service. No customer is too big or too small for us. For more information about AT&S log on to http://www.ATandSonline.com or call (816) 765-7771.
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