Wheels Up Rentals Opens for Business

Veteran MN production crew & Local 490 members Sammy Halabi & April Hinrichs have officially opened a new business called "Wheels Up Rentals". It is an Entertainment Trailer Rental business serving Minnesota and the surrounding 49 states. They currently have 3 trailers in their fleet.

1. 4 Stall Hair & Make-Up Trailer

2. 3 Stall 3 Shower Luxury Honey Wagon

3. Production Office Trailer

Details of each trailer can be found on the Wheels up website. Wheels Up Rentals also has plans for more acquisitions, please stay tuned!

Their focus at Wheels Up Rentals is to build custom trailers for each department. While designing custom is not new for film and nationwide fleets, their twist is to have these trailers designed by Film department heads. They need to look no farther than themselves for this expertise. Mr. Halabi is one of the busiest producers, production managers and coordinators in MSP. He is actively building out the “under construction” production trailer in their fleet. His business partner, Ms. Hinrichs, is a Hair & Make, SFX Dept head. She has been on many features, commercials and TV series. Her HMU business, April Marie Makeup, has their own lab, built to make all your SFX and make up needs. She has designed the HMU trailer in their arsenal.

While some of you may smirk as their tagline claims to be serving “the surrounding 49 states”, Wheels up Rentals has already gone national. Their HMU trailer recently returned from film work in Atlanta. So if their fleet doesn’t work in MN, they could be elsewhere. They are officially open for business. Please contact them at their website at:

www.wheelsuprentals.com

Wheels Up Instagram: Wheelsuprentals

Facebook page: Wheels Up Rentals

Local 490 is proud to have members like Sammy Halabi & April Hinrichs in our union. These IATSE members are the best in their stagecraft. You can find out more about Sammy’s work at his Instagram page, GOFORSAMMY and April’s work at her website.

Please support our film industry by hiring stellar members like Sammy & April. Shoot your next production on a union contract. In doing so, you are getting the best crew in Minnesota, your project will be safe, well run, your crew will be professional. You will be paying the crew good wages, supplying workers comp, unemployment insurance and even retirement benefits. This supports our union brothers and sisters before, during and after your project. Contact our business agent at this email, businessagent@iatse490.net, to find out more about shooting union.

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