Momentum Rental & Sales, a brand new equipment rental company in Port Lavaca, Texas, is holding a grand opening next week to promote its new facility and strengthen relationships with customers and the general public. The new rental company, founded by former RSC Rental employee Joey Barrett, has been in business since the summer of 2012 and opened its new facility a month or so ago.
Barrett told RER he worked with RSC for almost 14 years and then decided to start his own rental business. His store is focused primarily on the industrial rental market, with a lot of contractor customers.
“We have everything from small chipping hammers up to 120-foot manlifts,” Barrett said. “Of course we’re on a much smaller scale, but we have pretty much the same type of inventory as United Rentals and RSC when it existed.”
Barrett said the store has earthmoving equipment as well as a strong inventory of merchandise and supplies. The new store is about 60 feet by 250 feet in size, plus a 3,000-square-foot showroom. Momentum has nine employees, Barrett said.
Barrett added he hopes to be able to expand the company, south towards Corpus Christi and north towards Houston.
