New Hampshire-Based Milton Rents Expands to Western Massachusetts

Milton Rents, based in Gorham, N.H., has purchased a former car dealership in Chicopee, Mass., to convert it into its first location in western Massachusetts, the New Hampshire Business Review has reported.

Michael Roth

July 2, 2021

Milton Rents, based in Gorham, N.H., has purchased a former car dealership in Chicopee, Mass., to convert it into its first location in western Massachusetts, the New Hampshire Business Review has reported.

Milton Rents Inc., which will offer a variety of Caterpillar equipment, purchased the former 14,000-square-foot Family Ford building for $1.9 million in May.

The company rents smaller construction equipment, including jackhammers, skid steer tractors, scaffolding and generators.

Milton Rents was started four years ago with the purchase of ProQuip’s three outlets in Chichester, Gorham and Plaistow, N.H. Since then, Milton has opened new locations in Uxbridge and Shrewsbury, Mass., and in Portland, Maine.

Bill Staar, Milton’s chief legal officer, told the Springfield Republican, in Springfield, Mass., that the company plans to open 40 locations in New England and New York over the next 15 years.

Milton Rents lists Caterpillar, Genie, JLG, MBW, Multiquip and Skyjack as primary brands on its website.

Here’s the New Hampshire Business Review article: https://www.nhbr.com/growing-nh-construction-equipment-rental-company-to-open-western-mass-location/ For more on Milton Rents, go to: https://www.miltonrents.com/

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.