Texas First Rentals Opens New Facility in Little Elm, Texas

Texas First Rentals, a Holt company, has completed a 12,000-square-foot rental facility in Little Elm, Texas. Texas First Rentals is part of Holt Caterpillar.

Michael Roth

May 9, 2018

Peter J Holt Holt Cat CEO third from right Mayor David Hillock City of Little Elm third from left with members of Little Elm Economic Development Corp at the opening of the new branch — Peter J. Holt, Holt Cat CEO (third from right), Mayor David Hillock, City of Little Elm (third from left), with members of Little Elm Economic Development Corp., at the opening of the new branch.

Texas First Rentals, a Holt company, has completed a 12,000-square-foot rental facility in Little Elm, Texas. Texas First Rentals is part of Holt Caterpillar.

Located on seven acres off Highway 830, the $3.2 million facility will offer rental equipment and heavy equipment delivery for the growing North Texas market.

“Our investment in this new facility signifies our sustained commitment to providing the highest quality service for our customers,” said Don Myrich, general manager of Texas First Rentals. “Providing superior products and services is a core part of our values-based mission. This facility will help us continue to do that.”

Texas First Rentals was founded in 2015, and now has 14 locations in Texas, serving markets along the I-35 corridor. The new Little Elm facility, the company’s sixth location in North Texas, will employ 20 people, nine of whom will be new hires.

“Our expansion is also an indication of the rapid growth we are seeing in the North Texas market,” added Myrick. “We are seeing increased development in the region and, therefore, great demand for our services.”

Texas First Rentals is an affiliate company of Holt Cat. It offers Caterpillar machines, aerial work platforms, pumps, welders, concrete and masonry equipment, and more.

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.