MONERIC EQUIPMENT RENTAL, INC

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ONERIC Equipment Rental

By Brian Hoover, Senior Editor

Making a Big Impression on the Bay Area and Sacramento Regions with Hard to Find, High Quality, Late Model, Well Maintained, Tier 4 Rental Equipment

he reasons for creating a new business enterprise are as varied as the people who start the business in the first place. There is, however, usually a few common factors, such as necessity and convenience. Monica (McCosker) Johnson and Eric McCosker have been in and around the civil general engineering construction industry their entire lives. This brother and sister team grew up in a family with substantial ties to heavy construction, particularly in the mass grading and excavation niches. They became familiar with the equipment and the dayto-day operations of a heavy civil construction firm early on and continued their interest and development in the ensuing years. Monica went on to graduate with a degree in biology from the University of San Diego, while Eric received his degree in Construction T

Management from Colorado Mesa University. Monica joined the family business around eight years ago, with Eric getting involved after graduating college in 2015. Monica and Eric come from a successful, entrepreneurial family with a strong work ethic. They had this idea of starting a rental equipment business as an opportunity to work together and see what they could create on their own. The siblings soon began to realize that there was a specific niche in the heavy equipment rental industry that was being a bit overlooked. This was when they decided to start Moneric Equipment Rental, Inc. (Moneric) in 2015 to serve the entire Bay Area, Sacramento and Central Valley regions. “We noticed that many of the rental companies were offering the usual smaller equipment, and others had the big heavy equipment

you see on the large grading and excavating projects. What seemed to be missing was the late model midsized equipment that is typically used in more of a specialty situation, and that is what we decided to focus on for our new company,” says Eric. “While we still offer many of the machines that are utilized every day out on the job site, we also have equipment like our Cat 627 scrapers that are used on smaller grading jobs that may be more confined and have less access.” When you call Moneric and speak directly to Monica Johnson, you will find out that they offer low hour, current model machines that are all Tier 4 and prepped and ready to go right to work on your job site. Their fleet consists of everything from backhoes and skip loaders to medium-sized dozers like the Cat D8, all the way up to scrapers, excavators,

articulated dump trucks, water trucks, wheel loaders, rubber-tired dozers, scrapers and more. “Our fleet consists of all late model Cat machines, and our customers know that they are getting a low hour quality unit when they call for our services,” says Eric. “Our converted Cat, Tier 4, 8,000-gallon articulating water trucks, for instance, are very popular and seem to always be busy on mass grading projects. Moneric is primarily a bare equipment rental company, with relationships and strategic partnerships with other local and regional bare and operated equipment rental companies. “If one of our customers calls and needs a D10, 657 scraper or even a Cat 390, 198,000 lb. excavator, we can deliver with or without an operator,” says Eric. “We have long standing relationships with other rental equipment fleets with access to up to 400 pieces of construction machinery.” Moneric also owns and offers the smaller to medium-sized machines like Cat D8 dozers, the Cat 308 CR mini excavator on up to the Cat 336 81,900 lb. machine

Right & Bottom: Moneric Equipment Rental utilizing dozers, scrapers and compaction equipment on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

and wheel loaders in the Cat 950 range. “We started with just a few pieces of equipment and grew from there with longevity and sustainability at the forefront of our business plan. We are a small business enterprise with my sister, Monica, serving as the president and myself as the vice president. We are also looking into the advantages of being a womanowned business enterprise (WBE),” continues Eric. “We are always looking for an edge or competitive advantage while continuing to assist our clients in meeting their minority requirements.” Eric McCosker says that today’s heavy equipment users are looking for a company that knows their industry intimately. “Our clients want to work with someone small enough to know them by the sound of their voice when they call, and big enough to meet all of their heavy equipment needs. That is precisely who we are and what we represent,” continues Eric. “We are hungry and eager to show our customers why they should keep coming back to Moneric for their heavy construction equipment needs.”

Above & Below: Moneric Equipment Rental Water Pig hard at work at a mass grading project for Mission Village in Concord. Moneric Equipment Rental’s clients are primarily medium and large-sized civil general engineering contractors. “We have worked with big names like Teichert, Desilva Gates, Bay Cities, Independent Construction and other major earthmoving companies,” says Eric. “They seem to appreciate our late model, clean-burning Tier 4 machines that help them meet agency requirements. We have what they need to be compliant on any project..”

Zach Neu is a senior estimator for Independent Construction out of Concord, and he has been renting machines from Moneric since their inception in 2015. “When we are awarded a job, we will start calling around to staff the project from an equipment standpoint. We go with Moneric because they have the newest machines at a great rate, backed by excellent customer service,” says Neu. “At Independent, we are known for our large, mass grading projects, but we also do a lot of smaller subdivision jobs as well. Moneric’s Cat 627 scrapers are ideal for our 50 to 80 lot subdivision projects or high density projects with condos

or townhomes where access is an issue for our larger machinery.”

Moneric Equipment Rental has machines on a long list of jobs every day. One of these is the

Treasure Island project currently underway in San Francisco. The site was initially built to host the World’s Fair in 1939 before being transformed into a U.S. Naval station in 1941. Treasure Island is now being

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transformed into a $5 billion, ecologically focused, and sustainable new residential and retail development. The project is being built in phases, and De Silva-Gates of Dublin is currently contracted for grading and utility construction on-site. “This is a high-profile job that had certain requirements and goals for small business participation and was also an entirely Tier 4 project,” continues Eric. “We have been supplying equipment to the job site since 2018 and expect to have machines out there for the remainder of Phase 1 activity.” Eric points out that this particular project involves widespread use of different types and sizes of heavy equipment. “We have had excavators and haul trucks as well as re-rented K-Tec pull { Continued from page 16 } scrapers on-site and currently have Cat scrapers, dozers, and support equipment on the job. We average four to eight pieces on-site at a time and have had around 20 separate machines on the job to date. The current phase is geotechnical improvements that involves moving hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of dirt and placing them in strategic stockpiles while allowing the underneath soil to consolidate as part of the overall soil stabilization process.”

Eric McCosker says that market demands drive the need for more equipment in their fleet, and he says things are very busy right now. “Typically, we try to stay away from purchasing what we already have access to or what other rental companies have readily available. I believe that

our focus in this niche market is what sets up apart from the sea of other rental companies. We remain diversified with a variety of machines that contractors sometimes can’t find available,” continues Eric. “Contractors shop around, and we know that we have to be the best when it comes to maintenance, uptime, responsiveness and customer service. We have been successful because when the customer gives us an opportunity, we know that they will see and feel the Moneric difference, and repeat business is what it is all about in this rental game.”

For more information on Moneric Equipment Rental or to rent a machine, please call Monica Johnson at (925) 586-2027. Cc