Equipment Depot Services

The useful life of all powered equipment depends on timely and accurate service. Without it, the consequences can be severe. The first step in maximizing your equipment’s performance is to carefully follow the guidelines for daily inspection set out in the operations and maintenance manual you received when you purchased your equipment.

You can reduce downtime as well as your overall costs of operation by keeping your equipment in good repair, training your operators to work safely and smart, and replacing your equipment before the age of the equipment begins to significantly increase your annual operating costs. Our factory trained service techs can provide you with the highest quality of service.

Repair Service: Equipment Depot routinely services over 25,500 lift trucks — just about every model ever made – throughout its 12 state marketing area. Our 900+ factory-trained technicians have the know-how to diagnose or repair most lift trucks on-site. For those jobs that require more time and more lift we can pick up your unit and repair it in one of our state of the art facilities.
As an authorized dealer for more than 50 major manufacturers we offer parts and service for most brands of lift trucks. And we have the training and experience to work on equipment that has seen better days as well as equipment with the latest technology.
For major repair work our well equipped service centers can handle just about any job, large or small.

Planned Maintenance: A Planned Maintenance program can be purchased for any of your equipment to keep your lift trucks in peak operating condition, A Planned Maintenance program can extend the life of your lift truck and save you money. By controlling service and repair costs, maximizing uptime and reducing unplanned downtime your will get more productivity out of your forklifts. We can schedule a maintenance program based on your individual operations that will fit your budget.

Contract Maintenance: We offer a wide variety of maintenance contract programs. We can structure as service program that is built around your equipment and your budget.
Operator Safety Training: From train-the-trainer to on-site training, from product training to new product introduction, Equipment Depot has a variety of programs designed to meet your company’s needs.

Fleet Management: Every fleet is unique. Our fleet management services provide the flexibility you need and the value that rewards your bottom line. With more than 40 Equipment Depot locations in 12 states we can cover most national and regional companies. If you need fleet management in other states we already have relationships with outstanding suppliers in those states to make it easier for you to manage your equipment resources.
Make Equipment Depot® your first choice for service, parts and planned maintenance.

About Equipment Depot

Equipment Depot is an equipment sales and rental company that sells, services, rents and provide parts and training for the leading brands of forklifts, aerial lifts and construction equipment. It offers dock and warehouse equipment solutions in all markets as well as farm equipment, rail car movers, scrubbers, sweepers, tuggers and utility vehicles in selected markets. It operates from more than 40 sales and service locations in 12 states throughout North America.
Equipment Depot was founded in 1975 as Central Texas Clarklift in Waco and Austin, Texas. It changed its name to Equipment Depot in 1995 to better reflect the company’s expanded product and service capabilities. In August 2000 it was acquired by Pon North America. Today, the five regional companies that comprise the Equipment Depot dealership group represent more than 50 industry leading manufacturers - providing sales and service coverage in about 25% of the country. Its service vans with colorful racing decals are a familiar sight throughout its sales, rental and service areas.
The five regional Equipment Depot dealerships are strategically located throughout the eastern half of North America … from the Atlantic shore to the Great Lakes, from the Ohio River valley to the Rio Grande and the Gulf of Mexico. Each operating company offers a different product mix and a unique approach to its market. All of the companies were acquired by Pon North America over the past ten years. PNA is a division of Pon Holdings B.V., a Dutch trading company and one of the largest privately held companies in the Netherlands.
In the most recent year the Equipment Depot dealership group exceeded $420 million in sales. It employs more than 1,750 employees, including more than 900 factory-trained service technicians. It offers 24/7 equipment service for lift trucks, aerial lifts and material handling equipment from more than 600 radio-dispatched service vehicles. It has more than 26,000 customer-owned units covered by service contracts. It has more than 800 units of used equipment in inventory as well as more than 7,500 units in its short-term rental fleet.
About Our Locations
There are five operating companies in the Equipment Depot dealership group.
Equipment Depot Illinois
Founded in 1951 as Material Handling Services, it acquired Chicagoland Material Handling as well as Inland Material Handling before merging with Illinois Material Handling to become Equipment Depot Illinois in 2006. It operates six forklift, aerial lift and materials handling equipment superstores that service 54 counties in Illinois and two counties in northwestern Indiana. It sells, services and rents forklifts, aerial lifts and other equipment from Chicago to Peoria and from Rockford to Champaign. These six stores are strategically located in:
Alsip Elgin Elmhurst
Grayslake Morton Rockford

Equipment Depot Indiana, Western Kentucky and Tennessee
Founded in 1954 as Lambert Implement in Henderson Kentucky, the business moved to Evansville Indiana in 1977 and changed the name to Levee Lift, it was renamed as Equipment Depot Kentucky in 2008. It operates six forklift, aerial lift and material handling equipment superstores that sell, service and rent forklifts, aerial lifts and other equipment in southern Indiana, western Kentucky and northern Tennessee. These six stores are strategically located in:
Indiana: Evansville
Kentucky: Bowling Green, Hopkinsville, Louisville, Paducah
Tennessee: Nashville

Equipment Depot Ohio, Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia
Founded in 1960 as Portman Equipment Company, it acquired Walker Machinery in West Virginia before becoming Equipment Depot Ohio in 2008. It operates eight forklift, aerial lift and materials handling equipment superstores that sell, service and rent forklifts, aerial lifts and other equipment from in southern Ohio, eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and southeastern Indiana. These stores are strategically located in:
Ohio: Cincinnati, Dayton, Lebanon, Monroe
Kentucky: Erlanger, Lexington
West Virginia: Charleston, Parkersburg
In addition, Equipment Depot of Ohio operates a regional industry training center at its Ohio Learning Center located in Cincinnati.

Equipment Depot Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
Founded in 1955 as Forklifts Inc., it acquired Ransome Lift and Forklift Associates before becoming Equipment Depot Pennsylvania in 2008. It operates eight forklift, aerial lift and materials handling equipment superstores that sell, service and rent forklifts, aerial lifts and other equipment in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. These stores are strategically located in:
Pennsylvania: Allentown, Bristol, Downingtown, Lancaster, Mechanicsburg, Williamsport, York
New Jersey: Cherry Hill
It also operates from eleven service depots in Pennsylvania: Bloomsburg, Chambersburg, Delaware Water Gap, Gettysburg, Huntingdon, Lake Meadows, Lebanon, McConnellsburg, State College, Sweet Valley and Towanda. It also operates service depots in Vineland, New Jersey, and Wilmington, Delaware.

Equipment Depot Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma
Founded in 1975 as Central Texas Clarklift, it adopted and trademarked the Equipment Depot name in 1995. Since then it has acquired Bailey Forklift of Dallas, Clarklift of Ft. Worth, PowrLift of Dallas and Sherman, as well as Southline Equipment. Today Equipment Depot Texas operates 12 forklift, aerial lift and materials handling equipment superstores in its sales and service territory which includes 158 counties in Texas, 8 counties in southern Oklahoma and 2 parishes in western Louisiana. It sells new and used equipment, service and rent forklifts, aerial lifts and other equipment from the Red River to the Rio Grande in Texas. These stores are strategically located in:
Austin Beaumont BrazosPort Corpus Christi
Dallas Ft. Worth Houston Laredo
McAllen San Antonio Sherman Waco
In addition, it operates a separate tire and battery center in Dallas. It also operates 15 forklift service depots strategically located along the Interstate 35 corridor, the Rio Grande valley and the Gulf Coast in Abilene, Brownwood, Bryan-College Station, Corsicana, Del Rio, Denton, Killeen, Paris, San Angelo, Temple and Victoria Texas as well as Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Equipment Depot International
Equipment Depot Texas routinely provides parts and on-site service for forklifts and other material handling equipment in maquilladoras along the Texas-Mexico border including the cities of Ciudad Acuna, Piedras Niegras, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoras. The Equipment Depot dealership group also routinely exports parts used equipment into Mexico.

Equipment Depot Discounted Forklift Parts Sale!

Having trouble to find the right part number at the right price? Looking for that hard to find part? Take a look at our new website: www.discountedforkliftparts.com
On this website you can find a list of part numbers which are on a special discount sale. The prices for these premium parts are extremely competitive!
Here is what we have got to offer:
- More than 14,000 part numbers are on the list!
- More than 125,000 pieces are on sale!
- More than 100 major OEM’s are represented on the list!
- You can easily search the availability of your part number on the site, the site will be updated on a regular basis. So check back regularly!
- You can place your order by a simple phone call (+1 888 745 5438)
- If the part you are looking for isn’t on the list please give us a call anyway and we’ll do our best to locate the part for you.

With the launch of www.discountedforkliftparts.com it will make it even more easy for our customers to get the best deal on parts!
Interested in buying all parts on the list for one or more specific OEM’s? Make us an offer we can’t refuse!

Pon North America’s Equipment Depot Dealership Group Acquires Another Material Handling Company in Texas

Equipment Depot of Texas, headquartered in Waco, Texas, announced today that it has acquired Equipment Services Inc., a privately held forklift dealership in the Longview, Texas.
“Even though market conditions are tough we are continuing to execute our long-term growth strategy in North America,” says Don Moes, president of Pon North America, the parent company of the Equipment Depot dealership group in the United States. “Adding a dealership with a solid base in northeast Texas is another step in our plan to build a national brand. We expect to acquire additional material handling or rental companies this year.”
Equipment Depot is a dealership group of five regional equipment companies that operate under one common name to sell, service, rent and provide parts and training for the leading brands of forklifts, aerial lifts and construction equipment. It operates from more than 40 sales and service locations in 12 states throughout North America and was ranked one of the top 25 largest rental companies in the United States last year based on sales and fleet size. Its regional companies are based in Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
“This acquisition extends our reach in the northeast Texas market and completes an acquisition plan in Texas that began in 2002,” says Kelly Kunka, CEO and president of Equipment Depot of Texas. “Adding the Longview forklift facility to our existing operation allows us to expand our construction equipment rental operations into northeast Texas markets as well.”
As a result of the acquisition of Equipment Services Inc. operations in Longview, Equipment Depot of Texas’ combined operations has more than 600 employees, including 300 service technicians, operating out of 14 facilities strategically located throughout Texas. With sales and service coverage in 170 counties and annual revenues exceeding $190 million, Equipment Depot of Texas becomes one of the largest materials handling companies in Texas.
“We will now have the opportunity to serve our customers throughout Texas who have branch locations in Longview, Tyler, Lufkin or Texarkana or whose home base is in those markets – especially construction rental companies,” Kunka said. “Equipment Depot of Texas has been the authorized dealer for SkyTrak in many of the counties served by Equipment Services Inc. but we have not had a facility to sell, rent or provide service for telehandlers in the northeast Texas region.”

Equipment Services Inc. has operated at the same location in Longview since April of 1973. It was originally a branch PowrLift of Dallas, Texas, but became privately held as ClarkLift of East Texas in 1972. At one time Equipment Services Inc. had branches in Tyler and Lufkin, Texas, as well.

“Equipment Services Inc. has experienced managers and skilled employees who have a long history of taking care of their customers,” Kunka says. “We will now have more than 10,000 forklifts under routine service contracts and more than 1,300 forklifts in our short-term rental fleets and 2,300 aerial lifts in our.modern construction fleet.”
Equipment Depot of Texas is a Waco-based regional equipment company with equipment superstores in Austin, Beaumont, Brazosport, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, Laredo, McAllen, San Antonio and Sherman as well as superservice depots in Abilene, Brownwood, Brownsville, Bryan-College Station, Corsicana, Del Rio, Denton, Galveston, Killeen, Paris, San Angelo, Temple and Victoria, Texas, as well as Lake Charles, Louisiana. It also sells products through its website at http://www.eqdepot.com/.
It was founded as Central Texas Clarklift in 1975. Equipment Depot is a dealer for Caterpillar, Clark, CombiLift, Doosan, Drexel, Hoist, Linde, Mitsubishi and Nissan forklifts as well as Mobile pallet jacks. It also sells, services and rents aerial lifts built by SkyTrak, Genie and JLG, as well as light construction equipment manufactured by New Holland. It has more than 3,500 late model units in its industrial and construction rental fleet.
Equipment Depot also owns New Holland tractor equipment dealerships in Waco and Austin, Texas, that sell and service a complete line of New Holland agricultural and turf equipment as well as agricultural and turf attachments made by Woods, Gannon, Gill, BushHog and BellTec.