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Heavy Equipment Rental Leads from New Commercial Permits

Every commercial building permit is a rental order that hasn't been placed yet. The yard that knows about the jobsite first gets the call for the iron — and the fencing, the power, and the sanitation that go with it. JustPermitted reads every permit in your metro the night it's published and tells you what's about to be rented.

Demolition permits → Excavators & hauling Excavators, skid steers, breakers, dumpsters, water trucks for dust control. A demo permit means iron on site within weeks — and a clean lot that needs more equipment right after.

From our feeds this week: demolition permits in Chicago, Los Angeles and Henderson.
New construction & grading → The whole yard Temporary fencing, office trailers, generators, light towers, portable sanitation, compaction equipment — new builds rent for months, not days.

From our feeds: a $2.5M grading permit on Tropical Pkwy in Las Vegas and a $1.7M new drive-thru build in Los Angeles.
Tenant improvements → Lifts & power Scissor lifts, dumpsters, temporary power, air scrubbers. TI permits are short, dense rental windows — and metros produce dozens of them every week.

From our feeds: a $350,000 first-tenant dental office build-out in Riverside, hotel floor finish-outs in Austin.
Commercial roofing → Reach & hauling Boom lifts, telehandlers, dump trailers, debris chutes, safety gear. Every re-roof permit is two to six weeks of access equipment on rent.

From our feeds: 68 roofing permits worth $28M in Chicago alone, plus commercial tear-offs in Riverside and Tucson.
Concrete & masonry → Mixers & compaction Mixers, saws, plate compactors, concrete pumps, forms. Pours are scheduled fast once the permit lands — the yard that calls first is in the pour schedule.

From our feeds: 37 concrete & masonry permits worth $10.2M in Chicago this period.
Signage & electrical → Bucket trucks Bucket trucks and boom lifts for sign installs and exterior electrical. Sign permits also mean a brand-new tenant about to need everything else on this page.

From our feeds: 20 signage permits in one Riverside week — a Chevron, a CVS, two cafes.

The math for a rental counter

One scissor lift on a one-month TI rental covers the cost of this service many times over. Your counter gets a list every morning of every jobsite in the metro that just got permission to start work — with the project value, the address, and the contractor of record to call. Equipment rental businesses should choose the All Trades plan: every permit type in your metro is a rental signal.

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