Equipment Depot is an equipment sales and rental company that sells, services, rents and provide parts and training for the leading brands of forklifts, aerial lifts and construction equipment Founded in 1951 as Material Handling Services, it acquired Chicagoland Material Handling as well as Inland Material Handling before merging with Illinois Material Handling to become Equipment Depot Illinois in 2006 There are five operating companies in the Equipment Depot dealership group