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.