United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) will hold its quarterly conference call with Wayland Hicks, chief executive officer, Martin Welch, chief financial officer, and Michael Kneeland, executive vice president-operations, on Wednesday, November 1, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

The conference call is available by audio webcast at unitedrentals.com, where it will be archived.

The third quarter press release will be available on the United Rentals website at unitedrentals.com after the close of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, October 31.

About United Rentals

United Rentals, Inc. is the largest equipment rental company in the world, with an integrated network of more than 760 rental locations in 48 states, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The company's 14,000 employees serve construction and industrial customers, utilities, municipalities, homeowners and others. The company offers for rent over 20,000 classes of rental equipment with a total original cost of $4.2 billion. United Rentals is a member of the Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 Index and the Russell 2000 Index® and is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn. Additional information about United Rentals is available at unitedrentals.com.