Custom Truck One Source, Inc.
A North American one-stop shop for specialty trucks and heavy equipment, Custom Truck One Source rents, sells, and services vehicles like bucket trucks, digger derricks, and cranes for utilities, telecom, rail, and infrastructure crews. It grew from Custom Truck Sales, founded in 1996 in Kansas City by Fred Ross and his siblings, who got their start in the family gas station and towing business before expanding into a full-service equipment provider. Its rental fleet of more than ten thousand units is kept young—about three years old on average—so crews get dependable machines.