Texas First Rentals Acquires Class A Equipment Rentals
Texas First Rentals, a division of Holt Cat, has acquired Class A Equipment Rentals, a construction equipment rental company located in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Texas First Rentals is a construction equipment rental company, offering rental solutions through its full line of aerial lift, compaction, air compressor, earthmoving, and power generation equipment.
"We are continuously evaluating the needs of our customers and decided it's the right time for Texas First Rentals to expand into the Hill Country," said Texas First Rentals senior vice president and general manager Don Myrick. "Our search for a new location in Fredericksburg ultimately lead us to solidifying an agreement with Class A Equipment Rentals."
With this acquisition, current Class A Equipment Rentals employees will become employees of Texas First Rentals. The company will operate from the current Class A Equipment Rentals location until early 2023 when construction on Texas First Rentals’ Fredericksburg location is scheduled to be complete.
"As a previous customer of Holt Cat, we recognized the value Class A Equipment Rentals and its employees bring to the community,” added Myrick. “We are confident the business and team built by Claudyne and Tracy Clark align well with our values and we look forward to expanding upon the success of Class A Equipment Rentals."
Class A Event Rentals, which currently shares space with Class A Equipment Rentals, will not be impacted by the acquisition. Class A Event Rentals will retain its current ownership and remain in its current location.
Texas First Rentals has more than 20 equipment rental branches in the state of Texas. For more information about the products and services available through Texas First Rentals, visit www.texasfirstrentals.com.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.