McKinney, Texas
Lift and crane rental in McKinney, TX
McKinney work is mostly new-build on freshly graded ground, which is the classic case for a rough terrain scissor lift rather than a slab machine. The pad looks finished long before it behaves like one.
We arrange scissor lifts, boom lifts, telehandlers, forklifts and cranes across McKinney. We don't run a yard in McKinney. We match your job to vetted local suppliers and stay on it until the machine is on site.
What a McKinney job costs to price
Real Texas market rates by machine size and hire length. Change anything and the figure updates.
| Rental, 7 days | $230–$500 |
| Delivery and pickup | $300–$480 |
| Environmental fee (2%, capped at $99) | $5–$10 |
| Subtotal | $535–$990 |
| Texas sales tax (8.25%) | $44–$82 |
| Estimated total | $579–$1,072 |
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McKinney prices off the statewide band, with no metro adjustment. Sales tax only. The TERP surcharge applies to off-road diesel equipment, so it does not apply to this machine.
Prices are estimates based on published Texas rental rates, not quotes. Your final price depends on availability, delivery distance and how long you keep the machine.
What equipment costs in McKinney
We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest Texas metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything. One suburb can appear 40% more expensive than the city next to it purely because three machines were listed that week. McKinney jobs price off the statewide band, adjusted for haul distance from the nearest yards.
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As a worked example, a 26 ft electric scissor lift comes to $340–$500 for a week here. The same machine costs $150–$230 for a single day, which is the clearest illustration of how sharply rental pricing rewards duration: a week is roughly two and a half day rates, and four weeks is roughly five, not the nine that a lot of online cost guides still repeat.
Tax is worth planning for. Texas charges 8.25% sales tax on bare rental, and adds a 1.5% TERP surcharge on off-road diesel equipment rated 50 horsepower or more. An electric scissor lift is taxed at 8.25%; a diesel rough terrain machine can reach 9.75%. Most rental price guides never mention it. How Texas taxes equipment rental sets out both, along with the operator exception.
McKinney forklift rental
Warehouse cushion-tire, outdoor pneumatic and rough-terrain forklifts from 5,000 lb up.
McKinney forklift rental is a smaller market than the metro terms, so these are the sizes suppliers covering McKinney carry as standard rather than a full catalogue. The forklifts for rent in McKinney come off regional fleets rather than one local yard, so availability moves with what the rest of the metro is doing. Rates below are the statewide Texas band.
| Size | Day | Week | 4 weeks |
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| 5,000 lb cushion | $250–$363 | $625–$1,000 | $1,250–$2,625 |
| 8,000 lb cushion | $438–$510 | $951–$1,075 | $2,200–$2,500 |
| 10,000 lb cushion | $600–$700 | $1,550–$1,800 | $3,600–$4,200 |
| 5,000 lb pneumatic | $250–$363 | $625–$1,000 | $1,250–$2,625 |
| 8,000 lb pneumatic | $363–$500 | $1,025–$1,063 | $2,125–$2,552 |
| 10,000 lb pneumatic | $544–$590 | $1,244–$1,475 | $2,400–$3,530 |
| 6,000 lb rough terrain | $350–$438 | $563–$1,031 | $1,625–$1,988 |
| 8,000 lb rough terrain | $420–$480 | $980–$1,060 | $2,300–$2,600 |
Statewide Texas band. We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything.
McKinney crane rental
Rough-terrain, all-terrain, crawler and tower cranes, bare or operated and maintained.
Cranes are the one category we will not put a day rate on. They are billed by the hour against a minimum, with mobilization charged separately in each direction, and for larger machines bare rental is quoted by the month. Send us the pick, meaning weight, radius and site access, and we come back with a real figure from a McKinney-area crane house.
| Size | Day | Week | 4 weeks |
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| 30-45 ton rough terrain | Quoted by hand | ||
| 50-75 ton rough terrain | Quoted by hand | ||
| 90-130 ton all terrain | Quoted by hand | ||
| 100-150 ton crawler | Quoted by hand | ||
| Tower crane | Quoted by hand | ||
Statewide Texas band. We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything. Rows marked as quoted by hand are billed on a basis a day rate would misrepresent.
McKinney boom lift rental
Articulating and telescopic booms from 30 ft to 185 ft, electric and diesel.
McKinney boom lift rental is a smaller market than the metro terms, so these are the sizes suppliers covering McKinney carry as standard rather than a full catalogue. McKinney boom lift rental is priced ex-yard: delivery is the line that changes most between two otherwise identical quotes. Rates below are the statewide Texas band.
| Size | Day | Week | 4 weeks |
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| 30-45 ft articulating | $375–$550 | $890–$1,280 | $2,000–$2,900 |
| 45-60 ft articulating | $420–$715 | $1,220–$1,750 | $2,070–$5,200 |
| 60-80 ft articulating | $625–$1,220 | $1,590–$3,000 | $3,000–$7,000 |
| 40-60 ft telescopic | $438–$650 | $1,050–$1,750 | $2,190–$3,080 |
| 60-80 ft telescopic | $625–$1,060 | $1,376–$2,410 | $3,000–$5,950 |
| 80-125 ft telescopic | $960–$1,800 | $2,250–$4,510 | $5,060–$12,000 |
Statewide Texas band. We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything.
McKinney scissor lift rental
Electric slab scissors for finished floors and rough-terrain scissors for open ground.
McKinney scissor lift rental is a smaller market than the metro terms, so these are the sizes suppliers covering McKinney carry as standard rather than a full catalogue. Most people who rent a scissor lift in McKinney take it for a week or more, which is where the rate stops being a day rate. Rates below are the statewide Texas band.
| Size | Day | Week | 4 weeks |
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| 19 ft electric | $95–$175 | $230–$500 | $430–$900 |
| 26 ft electric | $150–$230 | $340–$500 | $620–$1,100 |
| 32 ft electric | $220–$360 | $520–$730 | $950–$1,650 |
| 40 ft electric | $310–$400 | $700–$850 | $1,450–$1,900 |
| 26 ft rough terrain | $300–$420 | $700–$880 | $1,250–$1,700 |
| 32 ft rough terrain | $330–$420 | $740–$890 | $1,600–$1,950 |
| 40 ft rough terrain | $395–$450 | $875–$1,100 | $1,900–$2,250 |
Statewide Texas band. We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything.
McKinney telehandler rental
Reach forklifts from 5,000 lb to 15,000 lb, with 19 ft to 56 ft of lift height.
McKinney telehandler rental is a smaller market than the metro terms, so these are the sizes suppliers covering McKinney carry as standard rather than a full catalogue. The telehandlers for rent in McKinney come off regional fleets rather than one local yard, so availability moves with what the rest of the metro is doing. Rates below are the statewide Texas band.
| Size | Day | Week | 4 weeks |
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| 5,000 lb / 19 ft | $403–$553 | $1,166–$1,270 | $2,863–$3,028 |
| 6,000 lb / 42 ft | $584–$750 | $1,250–$1,398 | $2,744–$2,993 |
| 8,000 lb / 43 ft | $595–$1,000 | $1,526–$1,750 | $3,125–$3,825 |
| 10,000 lb / 55 ft | $802–$1,250 | $1,753–$3,375 | $4,378–$8,750 |
| 12,000 lb / 55 ft | $978–$1,444 | $2,253–$3,125 | $5,385–$7,500 |
Statewide Texas band. We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything.
McKinney bucket truck rental
Road-legal insulated and non-insulated aerial devices from 35 ft to 75 ft.
We quote bucket truck rental in McKinney by hand rather than estimating it. Published rates for these units vary so widely between sources that an on-screen number would be misleading, and because they are road-legal the tax treatment differs too.
| Size | Day | Week | 4 weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 ft | $250–$400 | $750–$1,200 | $2,000–$3,000 |
| 45 ft | $300–$500 | $900–$1,450 | $2,200–$3,600 |
| 55 ft+ | $400–$770 | $1,200–$2,200 | $3,250–$5,500 |
| 20-30 ton boom truck | Quoted by hand | ||
Statewide Texas band. We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything. Rows marked as quoted by hand are billed on a basis a day rate would misrepresent.
McKinney man lift rental
One-person push-around and personnel lifts from 12 ft to 31 ft for indoor work.
McKinney man lift rental is a smaller market than the metro terms, so these are the sizes suppliers covering McKinney carry as standard rather than a full catalogue. McKinney man lift rental is priced ex-yard: delivery is the line that changes most between two otherwise identical quotes. Rates below are the statewide Texas band.
| Size | Day | Week | 4 weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20-31 ft personnel lift | $175–$235 | $390–$490 | $685–$750 |
Statewide Texas band. We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything.
Working conditions in McKinney
Recently graded and not yet consolidated across much of the growth corridor. It carries a machine in the dry and behaves nothing like a finished pad after rain, which is the classic case for booking rough terrain over slab.
North Texas heat and convective wind, on sites that are usually wide open with no shelter from either.
Suppliers haul into McKinney on US 75, SH 121 and SH 5. Distance from the yard is usually the largest single variable in a delivery charge, which is why we ask for the site address rather than just the city.
McKinney generates too little standalone search demand to read a local equipment mix from, which is itself informative: the fleet serving it is based elsewhere. In practice that means Dallas, roughly 31 miles away, and the haul is a real line on the quote rather than a rounding error.
The work driving equipment demand here is residential and commercial growth construction and municipal work. That shapes what local yards stock, and it is the reason availability tightens for some classes and not others. See also wind limits and Texas heat and site prep and ground conditions.
Permits and site access in McKinney
A fast-growing city with an active historic downtown, where street work is managed tightly and closures need planning.
If the machine has to sit in the road, on a sidewalk or over a property line, that is a permitting question rather than a rental one, and it is the most common reason a delivery date slips. Tell us where the machine needs to stand and we will flag it before the quote goes out.
What tends to go wrong in McKinney
Freshly graded ground is the trap. A pad that carries a machine in the dry will not after rain, and the call usually comes on a Monday about a slab scissor lift that went out on the Friday. If the pad is younger than a season, book rough terrain.
Downtown is a separate problem from the growth corridor. Street work around the square is managed tightly, so anything needing a lane needs lead time that has nothing to do with machine availability.
How a McKinney request works
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Step 1
Tell us the job
Send the machine or the working height, the dates and the site address.
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Step 2
We check the market
We price and check availability with vetted suppliers covering McKinney.
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Step 3
You get a written quote
A written figure within one business day, naming the supplier and what is included.
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Step 4
The machine arrives
You deal with the supplier directly from there, and we stay on it until it is on site.
Frequently asked questions
What does it cost to rent a scissor lift in McKinney?
- A 26 ft electric scissor lift runs about $340–$500 for a week in McKinney. We don't publish a McKinney-specific rate. Below the five largest Texas metros the rate sampling is too thin to mean anything, so we quote the statewide band and adjust for haul distance. Longer hires drop the effective day rate sharply: a week is roughly two and a half day rates, not seven.
Do you have a yard in McKinney?
- No. We don't run a yard in McKinney. We match your job to vetted local suppliers and stay on it until the machine is on site. That is worth knowing up front, because it means we are quoting the whole local market rather than one company's price list.
What ground conditions should I expect in McKinney?
- Recently graded and not yet consolidated across much of the growth corridor. It carries a machine in the dry and behaves nothing like a finished pad after rain, which is the classic case for booking rough terrain over slab.
Will weather stop the job in McKinney?
- North Texas heat and convective wind, on sites that are usually wide open with no shelter from either. Most platforms have a wind limit around 28 mph, and it applies to the gust rather than the average.
How is equipment rental taxed in McKinney?
- Texas charges 8.25% sales tax on bare equipment rental in McKinney. On top of that there is a 1.5% TERP surcharge on off-road diesel equipment rated 50 horsepower or more, so an electric scissor lift is taxed at 8.25% and a diesel rough terrain machine can reach 9.75%. Equipment supplied with an operator on a single charge is generally not taxed as a rental at all.
How quickly can you get equipment to a McKinney job?
- We come back with a written quote within one business day, naming the supplier. Delivery itself depends on the yard and the machine. Common sizes usually move within a day or two, and anything tall, heavy or specialised needs more notice. A fast-growing city with an active historic downtown, where street work is managed tightly and closures need planning.
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Get a price estimate for your McKinney job
Tell us the job and we come back with a written quote within one business day, naming the supplier.
This is a request, not a booking. We confirm availability and final pricing with a local supplier before anything is committed.