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Milton makes it easy. Easy to join a passionate team. Easy to act quickly and make a difference. Easy to build your career. Milton Rents is a division of the Milton company, comprised of Milton CAT, Milton Rents, Sitech Northeast, and Tri-Point.
The Milton company placed a strategic focus on growth in the construction equipment rental space in 2018, acquiring Pro Quip Rentals in New Hampshire, shortly followed by Shaughnessy Rentals in Southern Massachusetts. In addition to building 4 new branches over the last 6 years, Milton Rents also acquired the Duke company in 2023 expanding its reach to Upstate New York. Today, Milton Rents operates 15 locations across its six-state territory with plans for significant growth in the coming years.
From its start in a dirt floor garage in Concord, New Hampshire, the Milton company has grown to 30+ locations, spanning a six-state territory; it has well over 1,500 employees, many with twenty, thirty or even forty years of service at the company and it’s widely recognized by Caterpillar as being one of its top performing dealerships worldwide. Milton still runs on the same philosophy that made the company successful in its early years. The company’s growth and reputation have been a result of experience, continuity of purpose, empowering employees, and a longstanding partnership with Caterpillar.
A privately held company, Milton is owned by the Milton family. Dealer principal and CEO Chris Milton is the third generation Milton to be at the helm of a Caterpillar dealership. Chris Milton’s father, Jack, learned the ropes under his father, Milt Milton, at former Massachusetts CAT dealership Perkins-Milton. In 1960, Jack Milton and partner Bill Jordan founded Jordan-Milton Machinery and represented Caterpillar equipment and engines in New Hampshire and Vermont, expanding into Maine with the acquisition of Arnold Machinery Company in 1982. In 1991, Jordan-Milton acquired Southworth Machinery, and the company name became Southworth-Milton. That name was changed to Milton CAT shortly after the company expanded its territory into western New York with the acquisition of bordering CAT dealership Syracuse Supply Company in 2004.
Today, the company’s products and technology can be found in logging camps and nuclear facilities; dairy farms, US Army Defense installations, hospitals, lobster boats, and underground salt mines; solid waste landfills, data centers, paving projects, and ferries; commuter rail trains, quarries, school buses and of course, job sites of all sizes.
