Interview: from zero to $1bn rental fleet in 10 years

Murray Pollok Managing Editor, IRN & Director of Content, KHL

18 August 2025

Texas First Rentals is now one of the largest privately-owned rental businesses in North America. Murray Pollok spoke to Don Myrick, who has been at the helm since its creation 10 years ago by Holt Group, which also owns Holt Cat, the large Caterpillar dealership in Texas.

Holt Group knew what it was doing when it appointed Don Myrick to lead its new rent-to-rent business, Texas First Rentals, in early 2015.

It didn’t want the rent-to-sell model common to many equipment distributors – and Caterpillar dealers - but a pure-play rental business, and in Myrick it was…

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