Black Equipment is a leading material handling and compact construction equipment solutions provider serving the Midwest since 1956. We offer a broad selection of new, used and rental forklifts and other essential material handling equipment for manufacturing, warehousing, agriculture, automotive, food processing and more. We keep you productive by providing the services you need and expect, like preventative maintenance and repairs, mobile tire service, mobile battery and charger service, and 24-hour emergency service. Your downtime is our priority.

New and Used Equipment

Our line of innovative forklifts and related material handling equipment delivers performance and value. Our new forklift line features products from Hyster, Yale and Combilift to improve your material handling productivity and efficiency. Black Equipment also offers compact construction equipment, aerial platforms like boom and scissor lifts, personnel carriers, industrial cleaning equipment, side loaders and dock equipment.

Have a strict budget? Our 11 locations carry used equipment to lower your operating costs. Black Equipment helps you manage costs by offering a wide variety of used equipment from all 11 locations. We back our equipment with a simple guarantee. If something doesn’t perform as specified, we’ll buy it back within 30 days of delivery. Flexible financing plans are also available.

Rental Equipment

Black Equipment rentals offer a flexible and cost-effective solution for changing demand in your market. You can rent a forklift and compatible attachments to perform specific material handling applications in warehouses, manufacturing plants, retail stores and farming. We can also provide other rental equipment like yard spotters, personnel carriers and industrial cleaning machines.

We provide ongoing maintenance and repair service for rentals and guarantee that if your rental isn’t delivered on time and ready to use, the first rental week is free.

Maintenance and Repair Services

Black Equipment provides preventative maintenance service and repairs for all makes and models of material handling equipment. Regular preventative maintenance follows the manufacturer’s recommendations and can be adjusted for usage patterns and machine age. 

For unplanned repairs, our experienced, trained technicians perform nearly any repair, from tire problems to electrical diagnostics to overhauling engines and hydraulic systems. Our service work is backed by our 60-day guarantee. If the repairs we make fail within 60 days, we provide a free loaner until the repair is corrected.

Docks and Doors

For most businesses, the loading docks are a busy area. Raw materials and bulk stock flow in while finished product and orders flow out. Your docks and doors are easily overlooked until something happens, and your workflow is interrupted. 

Black Equipment offers a variety of services for your loading dock area. We provide dock and door installation services, regular preventative maintenance and equipment repairs. We also install and repair a variety of loading dock equipment like dock levelers, truck restraints, controllers and dock shelters.

Premier Fleet

Managing multiple units in a fleet quickly becomes a difficult and unmanageable mess. How do you know what work has been done? When was it performed? Is the vendor staying on top of your fleet? Do you need transparency?

Premier Fleet from Black Equipment puts all fleet service information at your fingertips — providing you with 100% transparency on everything we do.

Your fleet data is gathered automatically every time we perform service for you on any unit. This data is crucial for analyzing root cause problems that continually arise as you change processes and workflows. It also helps identify abused and underused fleet vehicles.

We believe so strongly that Premier Fleet is a valuable tool that we offer it free to our preventative maintenance customers.

Contact Black Equipment in Hopkinsville Today

Turn to Black Equipment for your material handling and other equipment needs:

• New and used equipment
• Rentals
• Parts
• 24-hour emergency service
• Maintenance and repair service
• Docks and doors
• Mobile tire service
• Mobile battery and charger service

Call us at 270-886-3432 or contact us online today.