Texas · 20 cities
Bucket truck rental
Bucket trucks and boom trucks are road-legal machines on a chassis: they drive to the work rather than being trailered to it. That makes them the right answer for utility, sign, lighting and tree work spread across a route, and a different rental product from a self-propelled aerial lift.
Bucket truck rental rates in Texas
These are the sizes suppliers carry. The basis they are quoted on is set out below.
| 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. Rows marked as quoted by hand are billed on a basis a day rate would misrepresent.
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.
Rates last checked .
What will bucket truck rental cost you?
Real Texas market rates by machine size and hire length. Change anything and the figure updates.
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.
How to choose the right bucket truck
Insulated or not is a safety classification
An insulated aerial device is tested and rated for work near energised conductors. If the job goes anywhere near power, that rating is the specification and everything else is secondary.
Working height, not boom length
These are quoted on working height, meaning where a person standing in the bucket can reach. Side reach matters just as much when the truck cannot park under the work.
Who is driving it
A chassis over 26,000 lb gross needs a commercial licence. That is a staffing question to settle before the machine is booked, not after it arrives.
Sizes and specifications
35 ft bucket truck
- Working height
- 35 ft
- Capacity
- 350 lb
- Power
- diesel
45 ft bucket truck
- Working height
- 45 ft
- Capacity
- 400 lb
- Power
- diesel
55 ft and taller bucket truck
- Working height
- 55 ft
- Capacity
- 400 lb
- Power
- diesel
Boom truck, 20-30 ton
- Capacity
- 52,000 lb
- Power
- diesel
Training and compliance
Bucket truck rental by city
We arrange bucket truck rental across the twenty largest cities in Texas. Each city page carries local rates, ground conditions and the permitting reality for that metro.
- Houston bucket truck rental
- Austin bucket truck rental
- Dallas bucket truck rental
- San Antonio bucket truck rental
- El Paso bucket truck rental
- Fort Worth bucket truck rental
- Lubbock bucket truck rental
- Corpus Christi bucket truck rental
- Irving bucket truck rental
- Garland bucket truck rental
- Amarillo bucket truck rental
- Denton bucket truck rental
- Laredo bucket truck rental
- McKinney bucket truck rental
- Frisco bucket truck rental
- Arlington bucket truck rental
- Plano bucket truck rental
- Brownsville bucket truck rental
- Killeen bucket truck rental
- Grand Prairie bucket truck rental
Other equipment
- Forklift rental · Warehouse cushion-tire, outdoor pneumatic and rough-terrain forklifts from 5,000 lb up.
- Crane rental · Rough-terrain, all-terrain, crawler and tower cranes, bare or operated and maintained.
- Boom lift rental · Articulating and telescopic booms from 30 ft to 185 ft, electric and diesel.
- Scissor lift rental · Electric slab scissors for finished floors and rough-terrain scissors for open ground.
- Telehandler rental · Reach forklifts from 5,000 lb to 15,000 lb, with 19 ft to 56 ft of lift height.
- Man lift rental · One-person push-around and personnel lifts from 12 ft to 31 ft for indoor work.
Frequently asked questions
What does bucket truck rental cost in Texas?
- We quote this category by hand. Published rates vary so widely between sources that an on-screen number would be misleading, and being road-legal changes the tax treatment too.
Is it cheaper to rent by the week?
- Substantially. Across Texas listings a week costs about two and a half day rates and four weeks about five, so the effective cost per day roughly halves on a weekly hire. If the job is five days or more, ask for the weekly rate rather than five daily ones, and most suppliers will apply it automatically, but not all of them.
What does the rate not include?
- Delivery and collection, fuel, the transport surcharge most suppliers index to the diesel price, the rental protection plan at around 15% unless you supply a compliant certificate of insurance, and tax. Our estimator adds delivery, protection and tax so you can see the real number rather than the headline one.
How is bucket truck rental taxed in Texas?
- Road-legal units can fall under Texas Motor Vehicle Rental Tax rather than sales tax, depending on how the unit is registered: 10% for rentals of 30 days or less against 6.25% for longer terms. We do not publish a rate for these until the supplier confirms which applies.
Do I need a certified operator?
- These fall under the same OSHA aerial lift rules as a boom lift, including harness use in the bucket, and being road-legal adds vehicle requirements on top.
Get a price on bucket truck rental
Tell us the size, the dates and the site. 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.