Toro Forges Rental Partnership with Utility One Source

Toro has formed a new partnership with Utility One Source to provide utility companies and contractors with rental access to Toro underground utility equipment at its 18 United States locations.

Michael Roth

March 28, 2016

2 min read

Toro demonstrates its horizontal drilling equipment at a recent trade show.

Toro has formed a new partnership with Utility One Source to provide utility companies and contractors with rental access to Toro underground utility equipment at its 18 United States locations. Utility One Source, a player in the overhead rental equipment segment, has selected Toro’s horizontal directional drills and ride-on utility trenchers to continue its expansion into the underground segment.

Utility One Source is comprised of six family-owned and operated businesses including: Custom Truck & Equipment, Utility Fleet Sales, Forestry Equipment of Virginia, UCO Equipment, TNT Equipment, and Load King Trailers.

“We are very pleased to join forces with Toro,” says Fred Ross, CEO of Utility One Source. “UOS brings its commitment to unequaled equipment excellence to this new partnership, and is excited to deliver enhanced value and expanded breadth to the underground utility sector, in collaboration with such an esteemed brand. This is just one more stride in our continued pledge of offering the most competitive and dynamic equipment solutions in the industry, and we believe we will be able to accomplish more than ever before by adding this prestigious brand to the rental fleet.”

Toro products now available through Utility One Source include:

RT600 – 60 hp riding trencher and backhoe units
RT1200 – 120 hp riding trencher and backhoe units
RT1200 – 120 hp 40-inch depth rock saw units on rubber quad tracks
RT1200 – 120 hp plow and reel carrier units on rubber quad tracks
DD2024 – 20,000 pound directional drill packages including locators and fluid mix systems
DD4050 – 40,000 pound directional drill packages including locators and fluid mix systems

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

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.