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United Site Services, which owns 350,000 portable restrooms, filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey on Monday with a plan to eliminate $2.4 billion in debt and hand control to the company’s lenders.

USS, which is owned by private equity firm Platinum Equity Partners, said that a majority of the company’s lenders have agreed to support the restructuring plan. Despite the high level of support, one large holdout creditor opposes the plan and could pursue a path of “delay and litigation,” according to USS’ court filings.

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
    28·
    2 days ago

    Okay… I have to ask… HOW does a port-a-potty company wind up 2.4 billion in debt???

    You buy the port-a-potty, you rent it out. You deliver it, you pick it up, you clean it. I cannot imagine a rental industry with more predictable costs.

    It’s also the only equipment rental industry I can think of where the renter will do everything in their power to use the rented equipment as LITTLE as possible.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      1 day ago

      USS said that its high debt, which funded several expansions and acquisitions over the years, became unsustainable in recent years due to high inflation and a downturn in residential housing construction in the U.S.

      Many of the company’s biggest customers are construction sites, and lower construction activity cut into the company’s revenues while interest payments, fuel and labor became increasingly expensive, according to the company’s court filings.