Penske Truck Rental is operating at a new facility at Highridge Business Park, having consolidated its locations in Pottsville and Mount Carmel.
Alen Beljin, public relations manager for Penske, said the company opened the Highridge facility Nov. 1 after the consolidations.
The previous Pottsville location, 1182 Route 61, is boarded up and is currently listed for sale.
"In particular, the Pottsville location was outdated," Beljin said. "We moved to Highridge Business Park to be closer to several major customers. The industrial park is a great location for future business opportunities and the proximity to I-81 was also a major factor. The Route 61 property is currently listed for sale."
Beljin said that Penske's new Highridge facility is at 1304 Keystone Boulevard and it provides full-service truck leasing, consumer and commercial truck rental and contract truck fleet maintenance services
The company's new facility is a 10,400-square-foot building on two acres. Much larger than the old Pottsville location, the building was designed to service trucks with engines that run on compressed natural gas. It has four truck service bays and a wash bay.
"The maintenance shop utilizes leading-edge wireless technology to enable Penske's service technicians to automatically connect vehicles for service with diagnostic and analytic software," Beljin said.
Penske Truck Leasing Co. is headquartered in Reading and is a joint venture of Penske Corp., Penske Automotive Group and General Electric Capital Corp.
It operates more than 200,000 vehicles and serves customers from more than 1,000 locations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
For more information about Penske, visit its website at www.GoPenske.com.