
Finance & Services · Historical fleet services · European TIP sale 2013
GE Equipment Services · Trailer Leasing
Trailers, fleet support and a distinct equipment-leasing history.
Vintage-style artistic recreation of GE's historic businesses.
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Business history
GE Equipment Services included trailer rental, leasing and fleet services. GE’s 2004 announcement identifies Transport International Pool as a wholly owned affiliate and explains its North American transition from TIP to the GE Trailer Fleet Services name.
TIP’s own history dates its entry into GE Capital to 1993. HNA completed acquisition of the European TIP Trailer Services Group on October 23, 2013. This was not a single sale of all GE Equipment Services or its North American trailer operations.
Related GE Capital container leasing followed a different path: GE SeaCo was formed in 1998 as a 50/50 joint venture with Sea Containers. HNA and Bravia completed the GE SeaCo transaction in December 2011, separately from the later European TIP sale.
Subsidiaries, acquisitions & joint ventures
Acquired · GE Capital from 1993 · European sale 2013
Transport International Pool · TIP
Trailer rental and leasing business; GE’s 2004 release identifies TIP as an affiliate within Equipment Services.
Ownership outcome: European TIP Trailer Services acquired by HNA in October 2013; do not apply that sale to all North American fleet activities.
Source
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Major products & innovations
- ✦ Trailer rental and leasing
- ✦ Fleet maintenance
- ✦ Trailer asset tracking
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Heritage illustration

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Employee memories
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GE Jokes
The sixth why
We asked the five whys. We found the root cause. Then the manager asked a sixth why.
We're still in that conference room.
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GE Garfield
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GE Motivational Quotes
No turbine was ever built by one person. Every one of those hands mattered.
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GE Legend Collectable Cards
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GE Honorable Mentions
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